[Comparative evaluation of intestinal microflora in infants on artificial feeding with various milk formulas].

The intestinal microflora was studied in 58 normal full-term infants kept on different types of feeding. The data obtained indicate that the transfer of infants from natural to artificial feeding was attended by changes in the intestinal biocenosis, with these changes being most demonstrable as a result of the use in the feeding of unadapted milk formulas. The feeding with adapted milk formulas (the acidophilic formula Malyutka, Malyutka with a new fatty composition, Detolact) compares very favourably with the feeding with unadapted formulas as regards its effect on the intestinal biocenosis.

[Fat assimilation and indicators of lipid metabolism in the blood of premature infants fed milk mixtures with different fat composition].

The efficacy and adequacy of fat component depending on the feeding type (breast milk, Malyutka, Malyutka with a new fatty composition and Similak mixtures) were defined in the course of feeding 90 premature infants aged 33 to 37 weeks on the basis of clinical observations, determination of fat assimilation and the main indicators of lipid metabolism. All the mixtures were shown to be tolerated well. No significant differences were revealed in the mean daily weight gain and in the monthly body length gain.