DISEASES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT IN TERM AND PRETERM NEONATES
The article highlights one of the pressing problems of neonatology - diseases of the gastrointestinal tract in infants, depending on the timing of gestation. Given the structure of diseases in term and preterm infants, including children with very low and extremely low birth weight. It is shown that term infants prevailed intestinal infection caused by both bacterial and viral flora, as well as mixed infection. Necrotizing enterocolitis was one of the most severe variants of the disease, both for term infants and for preterm infants, especially for children with extremely low-birth weight. Congenital malformations of the gastrointestinal tract were detected in full-term newborn and premature infants with very low birth weight.