Improving newborn screening
By participating in BabyDetect:
- You allow your child to benefit from a more extensive screening, free of charge
- You take part in the progress made against rare diseases
Improving newborn screening!
For more information:
- Scan the QR code.
- Speak to your gynaecologist, paediatrician or midwife.
What?A research project that examines expanding newborn screening with more than 120 rare, serious, and treatable infantile diseases.
Why?This test can identify more than 120 genetic diseases. This allows doctors to treat these diseases early, often before the first symptoms appear.
Who?For any newborn after the consent of their parents.
Where? At the maternity, 2 days after birth.
How? As part of the official newborn screening program, a few drops of blood are collected from the baby to screen for 19 serious diseases. This is called the heel-prick (or Guthrie) test. With BabyDetect, we collect a few more drops to screen for more than 120 extra diseases.
If we don’t get back to you, none of the diseases we screen for have been detected. In this case, “no news is good news”. If an anomalous result is detected, a specialist will contact you as soon as possible.
This test will NOT cause any harm or additional discomfort to your baby.