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Overview
Newborn screening ensures that all babies are screened for certain serious conditions at birth, and for those babies with the conditions, it allows doctors to start treatment before some of the harmful effects happen..
With a simple blood test, doctors often can tell whether newborns have certain conditions that eventually could cause problems. Although these conditions are rare and most babies are given a clean bill of health, early diagnosis and proper treatment sometimes can make the difference between lifelong impairment and healthy development. There are three parts to newborn screening. A heel stick to collect a small blood sample, pulse oximetry to look at the amount of oxygen in the baby’s blood and a hearing screen.
Most of the babies with metabolic disorders look normal at the time of birth. One will never know that the baby has disorder until the onset of signs and symptoms and more often ill effects are irreversible.
Signs and symptoms of chronic kidney disease develop over time as and when the kidney damage progresses slowly: