“What is a newborn screening test actually for? Can I refuse it? Should I?” If you’re expecting, questions like this can keep you up at night. So this Newborn Screening Awareness Month, we’re bringing you the answers. The heel-prick test is a crucial health check for conditions you can’t see. Performed 24 hours after birth, it screens for 30 rare disorders including cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease. It also analyzes how your baby metabolizes nutrients, in order to detect metabolic disorde

The aim of Newborn Screening is to detect diagnostic markers of treatable disorders in blood spots collected from pre-symptomatic newborn. Early identification of disorders significantly improves long term prognosis of affected patients, minimizes complications, avoids unnecessary diagnostic testing and identifies families for whom pre-natal genetic counselling may be helpful. #NewBornScreening #IEM #NBSTest | Dr Lal PathLabs