[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. Organization of the joint staying of mothers and children in the wards of the maternity home increases the colonization resistance of the newborn, favours normal adaptation and may be one of the factors bringing about the diminution of the rate of pyoseptic diseases in the newborn.