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Congenital diseases in babies

Precocious diagnosis of congenital diseases in babies:

Your baby needs protection from the very beginnings. Congratulations, your baby boy or girl is born. With the birth of your child come new responsibilities related with your baby's health and well being. This responsibilities force new parents to act quickly to guarantee the healthy physical and mental development of your child.
In most Health Centres it is possible to check the possibilities of congenital diseases in newborn babies. Diseases like metabolic originates Sub normality and other mental development problems related to the hypothyroidism congenital and fenilcetonuria.

In newborn babies this congenital diseases are not detected in an external examination and it can be weeks before any symptoms are shown, being too late then to do anything about it. For these reason is very important that all newborn take the tests to detect precociously any congenital diseases. The test consist in a blood extraction from the heel between the 3rd and 6th day of life.

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