Research Article
The Effects of Maturation on the Colonic Microflora in Infancy and
Childhood
Table 1
Major diagnoses in children that initiated the stool analysis.
| Organ classes | Main diagnoses | Children |
| Gastrointestinal | Unspecified | 1862 | Irritable Bowel Syndrome | 1188 | Crohn’s disease | 27 | Ulcerative colitis | 64 | Diarrhea | 771 | Constipation | 296 | Candida | 1061 | Food Intolerance | 238 |
| Respiratory | Unspecified | 663 | Bronchitis | 294 | Sinusitis | — | Asthma | 103 |
| Urogenital | Unspecified | 27 | Cystitis | — | Genital mycosis | — |
| Dermatologic | Unspecified | 40 | Dermatitis | 256 | Psoriasis | 28 | Acne | — |
| Allergic | Allergy, unspecified | 229 | Neurodermititis | 2184 | Recurrent urticaria | — | Pollinosis | — | Allergic asthma | 230 | Food allergies | 209 | Respiratory allergies | 106 |
| Rheumatologic | Arthritis | — |
| Others | Infection defence weakness | 402 | Autoimmune diseases | — | Malignom | — |
| Missing | | 421 |
| Total | | 10699 | | (85%)* |
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*The remaining to the total of 12.484 are cases with unknown diagnoses.
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