Can heel blood find out Tang's son?
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Every baby, at the time of birth, will do heel blood test in the hospital. In short, it is to take a little blood from the heel of the baby for test. But many people don't know what the test is, so there are many family leaders in life who want to know whether heel blood can detect Down's baby? Now let's get to know.
Can heel blood find out Tang's son?
Heel blood is not found out of the children of Tang, because the children of Tang check during pregnancy to check Tang screen. The main purpose of heel blood sampling is to check thyroid function and phenylketonuria, which can not be ignored in neonatal screening. Because these diseases have no obvious clinical symptoms in the early stage, and the inherent symptoms do not appear until 6 months later. At this time, the disease is more serious, and it is difficult to recover completely if you want to treat it.
When it is found that there are infants with congenital thyroid growth retardation in neonatal screening, because the decrease of thyroid hormone will only hinder the brain development, when the infant has symptoms such as dullness, it is necessary to supplement thyroid hormone tablets as soon as possible, so as to make up for the insufficient thyroid secretion of the infant and avoid brain damage, Parents can not be too anxious, as long as it is timely treatment can be restored.
In general, as long as the newborn after birth will do heel blood examination, if there is abnormal, under normal circumstances, the doctor will recommend re testing, in order to avoid errors, at the same time, if there is such a situation, as parents don't be too anxious, on the contrary, parents should cooperate with the treatment in time, let the baby check abnormal situation timely recovery, so it can be.
matters needing attention
Children's heel blood is taken to check for two diseases. It is to check phenylketonuria and hypothyroidism, because these two diseases can only appear when the child is one year old. The earlier the child is checked out, the better the treatment will be.
