The Newborn Metabolic Screening screens for rare but potentially serious disorders such as phenylketonuria (PKU), cystic fibrosis, and congenital hypothyroidism according to National Screening Unit.
Metabolic disorders are not easily detected without screening because many of the symptoms are non-specific and look like other more common conditions. Some of the disorders do not show any symptoms at all until after the damage has occurred. Many of these metabolic disorders (also known as inborn errors of metabolism) can cause developmental issues and lifelong complications such as mental retardation, physical disability and in some instances, death if it left untreated. Screening your newborn for metabolic disorders will help facilitate early intervention and prevent long term detrimental effects to your baby’s health.
What is the difference of Metabolic Screening to other Newborn Screening test?
There are three main differences:
1) Metascreen can detect more than 100 metabolic disorders, much more than any other available newborn screening test;
2) Metascreen uses your newborn’s urine specimen, which means the collection process is non-invasive and painless; and
3) We use a GC/MS screening platform and multiple analytes from more than one biochemical (metabolic) pathway to identify a single metabolic disorder, making Metascreen highly accurate and reliable.
What do I need to screen my newborn baby for metabolic disorder?
Just a sample of your baby's urine. They use simple & painless urine test which is more accurate than a blood-based test. Click here for the steps of collecting the urine sample.
Comprehensive newborn metabolic screening is an essential step in newborn care to prevent metabolic disorders from going undetected on your baby. An Advanced and FDA-Approved GC-MS technology combined with proprietary planner bioinformatics to reliably detect more than 100 life-threatening metabolic disorders from a single urine test. Know more the benefits of Newborn Metabolic Screening.
The good news is you can get a chance to win a free Meta 34 Newborn Metabolic Screening worth of P2,900 at Baby Company Grand Baby Fair 2016 happening on January 29-31 at SM Megatrade Hall.
All you need to do is register and one winner each day will announce at Cordlife Booth. Just click here to register.
Visit MetaScreen website or like their facebook page for more information. Goodluck soon to be mommies!