Patient's question:
I am pregnant now, and it has been three and a half months since I got pregnant. The doctor asked me to do a Down syndrome screening, and I haven't done it myself either. Today, I'm really hungry, and I want to eat something before doing it again, but I'm afraid it might affect the screening results if I eat. Can I have breakfast before the Down syndrome screening?Doctor's answer:
The Down syndrome screening generally does not allow eating breakfast, because this test requires collecting some indicators from the mother's fasting blood, and then inputting these indicators along with gestational age and some data from the ultrasound examination into a dedicated computer software to analyze the risk of the fetus developing Down syndrome. If you eat breakfast, it may produce some value details with micro influences, thereby affecting the evaluation results. It is recommended that you still stick to eating after the examination.