My daughter has a five-week old baby girl. The doctor just wrote a letter to her saying the routine screening they did at the hospital came back with abnormal hemoglobin. She said the test should be repeated when the baby's nine months old. I wonder how common this is and if she should be worried. The baby is totally normal and has no health problems.
My daughter takes Trileptal (anti-seizure medication) and did throughout her pregnancy. Could that have something to do with it?
2007-02-28 01:44:13 · 5 answers · asked by aries316 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
The baby is white. Both parents are white, mostly Finnish, with a tiny bit of American Indian in the baby's grandparents. The doctor did ask what descent the father was, and said it most likely isn't sickle cell.
2007-02-28 02:55:51 · update #1
If the doctor says to wait until the baby's nine months old to repeat the test, chances are he's not super worried, which leads me to believe that the result was BARELY abnormal. Most of the time when the newborn screenings come back abnormal, there was usually something wrong with the inital specimen (it got a little dust or something in it) and that can throw off the readings. If it was grossly abnormal, the health department in your area would be nagging you night and day to get it redone.
Hemoglobin is a test for anemia, so if your daughter was a little iron-deficient during her pregnancy, that probably had something to do with it. I don't know if anti-seizure drugs can zap mom's iron level - she might want to ask her prescribing doctor about that.
2007-02-28 05:36:22 · answer #1 · answered by zippythejessi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The blood test the do in the hospital tests for several different hemoglobinopathy traits, I would need to know which one was abnormal to help you. It may be a g6pd or any others. Of what decent is the baby, because there are tests in that bloodwork that are specific to decent, like sickle cell anemia or tay sacks, etc.
2007-02-28 10:32:19 · answer #2 · answered by qpook 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure everything is fine - and just do as doctor advises. If this were a major issue to be worried about, doc would advise more testing much sooner than 8 months down the road.
2007-02-28 09:49:36 · answer #3 · answered by chicchick 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
basically the sugar is abnormal. Meaning its to high or to low. Its quite common in babies. They probably just want to do a routine check to make sure she is not diabetic or anything of that sort. But im sure its nothing like that just all routine. If it was something very serious the doctor would have had your daughter bring her back in right away to get more blood work done.
2007-02-28 09:53:42 · answer #4 · answered by mchlmaiorana 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If you dont understand what you Dr. is talking about, then get on that phone and find out. It is very important that you understand and know what is going on with your child at every point.
2007-02-28 09:48:39 · answer #5 · answered by Mum to 2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋