Patient's question:
The Fujian New Screening Center sent a text message informing about the blood test report for the newborn screening. TSH: weakly positive G6PD: negative PHE: negative Can someone help me explain what this situation is? My baby is only 10 days old.Doctor's answer:
Hello, this is congenital hypothyroidism, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, and phenylketonuria screening results. From the results, it seems that the thyroid may have some issues.Advice: TSH refers to congenital hypothyroidism. A weakly positive result indicates that some problems may exist. G6PD is glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, which is also known as G6PD deficiency (favism). PHE is phenylketonuria, and a negative result indicates no issues.