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Test results are back!! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
Just wanted to update everyone on here about the test results. So it has been a few weeks since I posted so I will recap all that has happened from the beginning.
Our daughter was born on May 13 2008 and was flagged for an elevated IRT level of 139 during the newborn screening. Here in the state of Maryland anything over 90 IRT gets flagged for further genetic testing for the most common CF genes. Our daughter was found to have a single copy of the F508 gene.
May 23 ( 10 days after birth ) the pediatrician did a second heel prick test. The results of that IRT test was 73. Almost half of what it was at birth. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> This gave us some hope, but we were still very nervous.
June 16 ( one month after birth )sweat test. Results came back and we were told they were negative with a result of 18. We are very relieved that she did not come back positive and I hope our story will help others who get flagged for false positives.
The blessing in all of this is we now know she is a carrier and that at least one of us is also a carrier. We will get tested to see which one of us is the carrier before we proceed to baby #2.
Thanks to all who replied, I will still come check this board to give support to others who are going through the same process that we just went through. Please post your IRT levels to keep this post going as a repository for results to see how they compare to the document I linked above. In our case the percentages were near 0 for her having CF, and that ended up being the case. I'm curious to see future results posted to see how they turn out.
Just wanted to update everyone on here about the test results. So it has been a few weeks since I posted so I will recap all that has happened from the beginning.
Our daughter was born on May 13 2008 and was flagged for an elevated IRT level of 139 during the newborn screening. Here in the state of Maryland anything over 90 IRT gets flagged for further genetic testing for the most common CF genes. Our daughter was found to have a single copy of the F508 gene.
May 23 ( 10 days after birth ) the pediatrician did a second heel prick test. The results of that IRT test was 73. Almost half of what it was at birth. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> This gave us some hope, but we were still very nervous.
June 16 ( one month after birth )sweat test. Results came back and we were told they were negative with a result of 18. We are very relieved that she did not come back positive and I hope our story will help others who get flagged for false positives.
The blessing in all of this is we now know she is a carrier and that at least one of us is also a carrier. We will get tested to see which one of us is the carrier before we proceed to baby #2.
Thanks to all who replied, I will still come check this board to give support to others who are going through the same process that we just went through. Please post your IRT levels to keep this post going as a repository for results to see how they compare to the document I linked above. In our case the percentages were near 0 for her having CF, and that ended up being the case. I'm curious to see future results posted to see how they turn out.