Table 5.

Mean number of acute episodes and treatment in children less than two years of age for infectious diseases and childhood asthma in the two cohorts of healthy children.

Incidence per Patient in Two Years	Group 1	Group 2	p *
Recurrent colds with bacterial complications	0.69 ± 0.96	1.22 ± 1.13	0.015
Recurrent acute otitis media	0.37 ± 0.68	0.51 ± 1.04	0.41
Recurrent acute rhinosinusitis	0.13 ± 0.34	0.20 ± 0.56	0.52
Recurrent wheezing or childhood asthma	1.15 ± 2.11	1.94 ± 2.14	0.06
Antibiotic treatment	0.44 ± 0.80	0.61 ± 0.77	0.29
Inhaled corticosteroids	0.75 ± 1.31	1.65 ± 1.95	0.17
Oral corticosteroids	0.08 ± 0.33	0.25 ± 0.65	0.08
Inhaled bronchodilators	1.06 ± 1.93	1.92 ± 2.17	0.033

* Group 1: breastfeeding + DMT. Group 2: adapted milk + DMT. The data are presented as means with their standard deviations. * Mean and standard deviation. Continuous data are shown as means ± S.D. and categorical as percentages. Student’s t-test for independent groups was used to derive p-values.