Patient's question:
These days, I had a cesarean section and gave birth to my baby. Now I still need to stay in the hospital. The nurse took the baby to do a newborn screening. I'm worried about what illnesses it might have. I want to ask, what is newborn screening?Doctor's answer:
Newborn disease screening is an early stage in the life of a newborn. Through simple, sensitive, and rapid detection methods, it screens for diseases that threaten the lives of newborns, affecting their growth and development and intelligence, including newborn genetic metabolic disease screening and hearing screening. Newborn hearing screening is also an early stage in the life of a newborn. It uses auditory brainstem response (ABR) and otoacoustic emissions (OAE) to screen for cochlear and auditory nerve diseases in newborns. After the initial screening, re-examine newborns with abnormal hearing screening results 42 days later. If the re-examination is still abnormal, the newborn hearing center will diagnose the condition at 3 months, with treatment and intervention lasting for 6 months.