Newborn Disease Screening

Screening for neonatal diseases is a simple, rapid and inexpensive blood spot test. It can be used to detect early congenital genetic diseases and timely treatment to make them grow healthily. Some congenital metabolic diseases, although the incidence is very low, can seriously affect mental development, and can lead to permanent disability, can not be diagnosed before birth, no symptoms in the early postnatal period, but in the event of abnormal conditions, the nervous system Has suffered irreversible damage and lost treatment opportunities. If you can check early after birth, early detection, early treatment, you can protect the child from damage and avoid mental retardation. Basic Information Specialist classification: growth and development check classification: other inspection Applicable gender: whether men and women apply fasting: not fasting Tips: Poor rest, improper diet, excessive fatigue. Normal value The baby develops normally, is healthy, has normal intelligence, and has normal and stable genetic factors. Clinical significance Abnormal results: Congenital metabolic diseases, disability, mental retardation, dysplasia and other diseases. Newborns in the population that need to be examined. Precautions Taboo before the examination: poor rest, improper diet, excessive fatigue. Requirements for inspection: Actively cooperate with the doctor's work. (1) Use uniform physical examination forms (cards, books); unified measurement methods; unified evaluation and diagnostic criteria. (2) During the medical examination, it is necessary to patiently and carefully understand the overall situation of the children being investigated, attach importance to inquiries and inspections, and make evaluations, and promptly guide the problems. (3) Screening for weak children to set up project management and timely treatment for diseases. Inspection process (1) Screening site: The blood collection site is the inner and outer sides of the newborn's heel. (2) Screening time: The blood collection time is 72 hours after the birth of the newborn. The reasons for blood collection after 72 hours of selection are as follows: 1 Blood collection should be carried out after the baby is born 72 hours and eats 6 times of milk. Otherwise, the false negative of screening is easy to occur without breastfeeding or protein load. 2 Blood collection 72 hours after birth can reduce the chance of false positive screening for disease screening, and avoid the rise of physiological thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) to prevent false negatives in children with delayed thyroid stimulating hormone. 3 Infants who are discharged from hospital and transferred to hospital for various reasons may not collect blood after 72 hours. In principle, the infants should follow up the blood collection and improve the coverage of screening, but the time should not exceed 1 after birth. Months. The removed blood is processed and tested by reagents or instruments to determine its physical condition. Not suitable for the crowd Inappropriate crowd: None.

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