“TESTE DO PEZINHO”: POR QUE COLETAR NA ALTA HOSPITALAR?

Abstract

SUMMARY: The National Program of Newborn Screening for research of the Phenylketonuria, Congenital Hypothyroidism, Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Disease and other Hemoglobinopathies, it has as objective precociously to detect and to treat illnesses that, if prevented, prevent sequels as the mental deficiency and others. We intend, through this article, to awake the attention of the health professionals, mainly of the nurses, who act in the attendance of the just-been newborn, of the gestante, the woman in labor and in puerperium, on the importance of the precocious diagnosis of the diseases searched in the Program, with primordial purposes to assist the suckle for its good physical, neurological, psychological and intellectual development, besides offering to familiar the o genetic advise. The examination gratuitous and is supported by law, and so that the prevention is effective, all the Maternities must always carry through the collections of sample of blood of the heel of the high baby in the hospital one.KEY WORDS: Newborn Screening Program; prevention; precocious diagnosis.