Assessment of cow’s milk-related symptom scores in early identification of cow’s milk protein allergy in infants in Shenzhen: a multi-center survey analysis

  • 李伟艳,周少明,王少华,等
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  • 1. Affiliated Shenzhen Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital, Southern Medical University, Shenzhen 518028, Guangdong, China; 2. Department of Pediatrics, Shenzhen Children’s Hospital, Shenzhen 518038, Guangdong, China; 3. Department of Pediatrics, Women and Children Health Institute Futian Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518048, Guangdong, China; 4. Department of Pediatrics, The People’s Hospital of Longhua, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518109, Guangdong, China; 5. Department of Pediatrics, Shenzhen Nanshan Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Shenzhen 518052, Guangdong, China; 6. Department of Pediatrics, Shenzhen Luohu Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Shenzhen 518019, Guangdong, China

Online published: 2020-08-11

Abstract

Objective To explore the prevalence of cow’s milk allergy in infants in Shenzhen, China and to evaluate Cow’s milk-related Symptom Scores (CoMiSS) in predicting cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA) in infants. Methods A total of 210 infants with suspected CMPA (114 boys and 96 girls) with median age of 4.5 months old (1-12 months) from 6 hospitals including two municipal hospitals and four district hospitals were enrolled to calculate CoMiSS and eliminate food during June 2016 to May 2017. The 210 infants were diagnosed as CMPA or exclude CMPA by oral food challenge (OFC) test. Sensitivity and specificity of CoMiSS by ROC curve were determined, and CoMiSS in predicting CMPA in infants was evaluated as well. Results The median CoMiSS were 7.0 (6.0~8.3), 4.0 (3.0~5.0) and 3.0 (2.0~4.0) in CMPA group, non-CMPA group and control, respectively, which showed significant differences among three groups(H=152.58, P<0.01). Calculated by ROC curve, the area under curve of ROC was 0.90. The cut-off was 5.5. The sensitivity of CoMiSS was 87.8%, while its specificity was 78.1%. Conclusion CoMiSS is an easy, safe tool to predict CMPA which is suitable for application in pediatric clinic and digestive clinic. It needs more multi-center studies to evaluate the criterion of integral CoMiSS≥6 in recognition of CMPA or add some scores of bloody stool.

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李伟艳,周少明,王少华,等 . Assessment of cow’s milk-related symptom scores in early identification of cow’s milk protein allergy in infants in Shenzhen: a multi-center survey analysis[J]. Journal of Clinical Pediatrics, 2020 , 38(8) : 603 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-3606.2020.08.011

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