Neonatal screening for multiple genetic diseases?

Update Date: 2024-08-11 Source: Network

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All parents must pay special attention to their children's health. However, sometimes many congenital diseases already exist when the baby is just born, but they can't see them at all. Some of them will not appear until a few months later. If they check and treat again at that time, they may have missed the best time for treatment, So neonatal screening has become very necessary, now let's understand what neonatal screening needs to do.

Neonatal screening for multiple genetic diseases?

1. About three days after the baby is born, when the baby can normally take milk, the baby can do a spot check of plantar blood collection, take a little blood, adsorb on a specific filter paper, unified in the provincial neonatal disease screening center testing, can screen out a variety of genetic metabolic diseases, such as phenylpyruviuria, congenital hypothyroidism, congenital adrenal hyperplasia and so on.

2. Babies also need to do hearing screening, neonatal hearing screening methods include otoacoustic emission and automatic auditory brainstem response, generally in the baby's sleep or quiet state, the probe or earmuff will be placed in one ear for testing, after one side to do the other side. Can find out whether the baby hearing impairment.

3. After the baby is born, congenital heart disease screening should also be done. Through echocardiography, doctors can understand whether the structure of the baby's heart and blood vessels is normal, the speed of blood flow, whether there are heart and vascular malformations, and whether there are shunt, reflux and other abnormalities in the blood. Ultrasound has no trauma and radiation, and it has no pain for the baby.

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Parents attach great importance to their children's health. For the sake of their baby's health, the new mother must cooperate with the doctor's examination, and don't feel distressed because of taking some blood. If there is a congenital disease, the doctor will inform the parents in time for early treatment.