[Processes of absorption and utilization of glucose in newborn infants with intrauterine hypotrophy].

Overall 75 neonates with intrauterine hypotrophy (IH) and 19 healthy children were examined for glucose absorption and utilization according to the glucose tolerance test data. IH neonates were revealed to have and increase of glucose absorption and retardation of its utilization. The high blood glucose concentrations seen 2 hours after the test support functional insufficiency of the pancreas in IH.

[Effect of chronic intrauterine hypoxia on purine compound metabolism in the erythrocytes of newborn infants in the early neonatal period].

The content of purine compounds in red blood cells was measured and compared in 21 neonates with a history of chronic intrauterine hypoxia, depending on the condition at birth and the early period of adaptation. The content of purine compounds in whole blood was measured at the moment of birth and on days 1, 3 and 5 of life. It has been disclosed that the pattern of purine metabolism abnormality in funic red blood cells makes it possible to predict the course of the early period of adaptation.

[Study of the formation of intestinal microflora in newborn infants staying with or separated from their mothers].

In children of the first month of life, the formation of normal intestinal microflora was studied depending on whether they stayed with mothers or alone in the maternity home. Thirty healthy neonates born to young healthy mothers with a history of a favourable course of pregnancy which progressed to the delivery via the natural maternal passages were examined. Intestinal microbiocenosis in the newborn turned out more physiological provided they were placed at the "mother-child" department as compared to that when the newborn stayed alone.