NEWBORN SCREENING TESTS
Neonatal screening tests are one of the most effective healthcare services for the detection of a possible metabolic health problem in infants who are born healthy. Thus, precautions can be taken before the problem is settled and the permanent effects occur, and response to treatment becomes more successful. Newborn screening is performed in all health institutions in which births are carried out in order to prevent the irreversible permanent damage or death by early treatment in some of the congenital metabolic diseases. 1. Is the newborn screening test and the intelligence test (heel test) the same? As an early diagnosis cannot be made in some of the diseases of congenital metabolism, this screening test is also known as intelligence test among people because mental retardation is accompanied by a picture. In fact, this test is not a test that determines the level of intelligence of the baby. 2. Intelligence test done during pregnancy is it? No two are c...