I was wondering if anyone has experienced false negatives in newborn screening? Iowa has recently mandated CF screening for newborns. My niece born in Sept must have come back with normal numbers, but has been having major resp. issues as well as back and forth bowels....extremely loose and foul then blocked for a day or two. She is having a sweat test done with Cale's docs on the 8th and I keep telling her to push for genetic tests...but I was wondering how reliable the newborn screening is? Thanks
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False Negative in Newborn Screening?
- Thread starter rose4cale
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I was wondering if anyone has experienced false negatives in newborn screening? Iowa has recently mandated CF screening for newborns. My niece born in Sept must have come back with normal numbers, but has been having major resp. issues as well as back and forth bowels....extremely loose and foul then blocked for a day or two. She is having a sweat test done with Cale's docs on the 8th and I keep telling her to push for genetic tests...but I was wondering how reliable the newborn screening is? Thanks
I was wondering if anyone has experienced false negatives in newborn screening? Iowa has recently mandated CF screening for newborns. My niece born in Sept must have come back with normal numbers, but has been having major resp. issues as well as back and forth bowels....extremely loose and foul then blocked for a day or two. She is having a sweat test done with Cale's docs on the 8th and I keep telling her to push for genetic tests...but I was wondering how reliable the newborn screening is? Thanks
thefrogprincess
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Unfortunately false negatives happen all the time. The sweat test used to be the only meathod of diagnosis, but now genetic testing is definatly the way to go. It is SO much more reliable. Push for it, hard! She should be seen at an accredited CF center (find one on www.cff.org) and the test should be done through Ambry Genetics because they test for all the known mutations of CF (there are over 1400!). Good luck!
thefrogprincess
New member
Unfortunately false negatives happen all the time. The sweat test used to be the only meathod of diagnosis, but now genetic testing is definatly the way to go. It is SO much more reliable. Push for it, hard! She should be seen at an accredited CF center (find one on www.cff.org) and the test should be done through Ambry Genetics because they test for all the known mutations of CF (there are over 1400!). Good luck!
thefrogprincess
New member
Unfortunately false negatives happen all the time. The sweat test used to be the only meathod of diagnosis, but now genetic testing is definatly the way to go. It is SO much more reliable. Push for it, hard! She should be seen at an accredited CF center (find one on www.cff.org) and the test should be done through Ambry Genetics because they test for all the known mutations of CF (there are over 1400!). Good luck!