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Neonatal heel pricks
Neonatal heal pricks is a procedure used in many industrialised countries where a blood sample is taken from the heel of neonates[?].
This can be used for a variety of tests including:
- Thyroid stimulating hormone[?] (TSH) to detect hypothyroidism and hence prevent cretinism
- Trypsin to detect cystic fibrosis
- Detect phenylketonuria (an enzyme deficiency that can impair brain development).
Other potential tests include:
- A test for galactosemia[?]
With genetic tests[?] becoming more common generally, there may be a wide range of genetic tests available to Neonatal heel pricks in the future.
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