Are you a new parent? I am sure you won’t be having the idea of newborn screening? Complications have increased duly with time and it is always mandatory to ensure the safety and security of the newborn. It becomes the obligatory duty of the parent especially the mothers to know the do’s for the newborn kid.
Let us get an idea of what exactly newborn screening is. It is a kind of neonatal screening where the kid undergoes a medical procedure. This method includes the hearing test, blood test, heart screening, genetic and other metabolic syndromes of the newborn. It is good to get the things diagnosed as soon as possible because treatments can be done before it turns serious.
Metabolic disorder: Even the babies consume foods and metabolism. It is the process where the newborn eats and the foods break down to get digested. This gives them proper energy. Through newborn screening, disorders like lysosomal storage disease, galactosemia, homocystinuria can easily be detected.
Development disorders: A newborn can also suffer from cerebral palsy, autism spectrum, learning disorder, mental retardation.
Genetic disorder: Newborn screening identifies diseases like hemophilia, congenital hypothyroidism, Huntington’s disease and other such chromosomal diseases.
