Heel Prick test

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kewty
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Heel Prick test

Postby kewty » Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:02 am

Hi

My daughter is 21 months and yesterday eventually received in the post the results of her heel prick test that was done shortly after she was born. Is this usual? I would have thought that test results should be given asap. The results were normal, but what if they weren't, and we only found out now?

Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks
Kx
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Re: Heel Prick test

Postby ordinarygirl09 » Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:48 pm

HI there,

We received our daughter's heel prick test within a week. We were living in Scotland at the time so could be slightly different down here, however it seems really odd that you would have to wait nearly 2 years.
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Postby KatherineHepburn » Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:26 pm

How odd. Yes, I got my daughter's last week too and she is now 21 months!
Did Vic the midhusband do yours?
Perhaps they were just having a bad week that week...that turned into a bad year...and 10 months!
Rather glad that it came back all clear.
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Re: Heel Prick test

Postby MrsAmanda » Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:25 pm

We got ours last week too! Our son is only 5 months old, though, so it was quite quick in comparison!!
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Postby tilly » Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:42 pm

me too, daughter is 21 months old now! good job the result was ok.....
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Re: Heel Prick test

Postby Raspberry-Sorbet » Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:51 pm

No it certainly isn't normal for the results to take longer than a week or two. The reason why they are done at such a young age is because the disorders that are being tested for are very serious albeit thankfully quite rare and if treatment is delayed for a baby that does have one of these conditions, then the time delay has a detrimental effect.

If a baby's results did show up as being abnormal, then you would receive a phone call immediately to arrange further tests. I know all of the above because one of my daughter's was abnormal although thankfully, it was a false positive due to her prematurity. The follow up blood tests etc were unpleasant but nothing compared to her having one of the conditions.

If though, a positive result for one of the conditions had been missed, many other symptoms / difficulties would have arisen long before 21 months that hopefully would have been spotted quickly by a GP. Not an excuse for missing results though.

I suspect there is a computer error - typical NHS Admin inefficiency...!
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Re: Heel Prick test

Postby kiwimummy » Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:04 am

i got mine about two weeks after they were run - i had a private midwife do them as st thomas post natal rang me up to hassle me they weren't done and were late, which was all very well except no nhs midwife had bothered visiting me at that point. and indeed didn't bother for some time after that. :roll:

my question is do the results show that the test was run at the time your children were born, or did they run the test later? hopefully it is the first and they didn't forget to actually process the samples on time.
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Postby balhammummy5 » Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:47 am

It may be that your health visitor was given the results within a couple of weeks but didn't flag it to you as the results were ok. That's what happened with us (heal prick was taken by the St George's Yellow Team midwives). However there was something we wanted to check had been tested so we asked our health visitor - she had checked the all was ok already.
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Postby thelittlelegscompany » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:53 am

NHS do make terrible administrative errors - when DD was 2 weeks old she got a letter that congratulated her on her recent pregnancy & outlined the appointments she needed to make. Before having the contraception chat with my newborn, I rang and apparently they had put the wrong letters in the wrong envelopes...worryingly they never then sent the right letters so who knows what I missed!
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Re: Heel Prick test

Postby Karin1979 » Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:13 pm

I received mine back when my son was also 21 months .... :o
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