Down syndrome can be detected in advance

New technology to detect Down's syndrome developed by American scientists. This serious disease can be determined in the early stages of pregnancy - test is carried out for 10 weeks, and outputs the result to the nearest 99, 1%.

The peculiarity of the new method is that it is virtually safe. Until now, doctors took invasive tests (examined amniotic fluid or pinch off a piece of tissue in the organism), which did not exclude the risk of intrauterine infection. American test, developed by Sequenom, reveals the terrible disease without puncture - a future mother took a drop of blood. It "reads" the DNA code and immediately gives the result (according to the speed and efficiency it can be compared with tests for pregnancy).

Down Syndrome   - A hereditary disease, also called Trisomy 21 chromosome. Symptoms of the disease are mental retardation, hypotonia, flat face, Mongoloid eye shape. In some forms of this disease the risk of having an unhealthy child is higher - for example, when there is a pedigree few cases of children born with Down syndrome. A major risk factor is age, and parents of Statistics mothers older than 35 years and fathers older than 40 years, the frequency of occurrence of "Downey" doubles.

In Russia, as Russian experts predict, the American test Down's syndrome   It will come only after a couple of years. According to the director of FGU "Scientific Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology behalf Kulakov," academician Gennady Dry, American development has not yet been officially registered. To do this will take time. That is, in the next few years the Russian physicians will practice Survey mums "the old fashioned way." Invasive tests are taken at 7-9 and 22 - 24 weeks of pregnancy. As doctors say, this technology has proved itself for a long time, and the probability to injure the fetus is minimal.

What other tests are taken during pregnancy:
When registering:

- general blood analysis;
- Blood for AIDS, syphilis, hepatitis B and C;
- blood chemistry;
- Coagulation;
- Rh blood group;
- TORCH-infection.
At 11-14 weeks:
- Prenatal biochemical screening (double test). If the registration is carried out in a period of about 10 weeks before these tests can be taken in the same period.
At 16-20 weeks:

- Prenatal biochemical screening (triple test);
- general blood analysis;
- Blood for AIDS, syphilis, hepatitis;
- blood chemistry;
- Coagulation.
In 30 weeks:

- general blood analysis;
- Blood for AIDS, syphilis, hepatitis;
- blood chemistry;
- Coagulation.

Healthy Child

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