Newborn Screen Results

I just got a call from our ped's office. Poppy had her newborn screen done on Friday and I guess the ped got the results this evening. Her test came back abnormal for Cystic Fibrosis. From what I understand, this can mean one of 3 things: 1) nothing; 2) she's a carrier for CF (which apparently is true for as many as 1 out of every 30 people); 3) she actually has CF.

To get a conclusive diagnosis, Poppy will have to go to Riley for a sweat test. It should take about an hour and doesn't involve anything that will cause her pain; they'll just make part of her sweaty so they can collect and test the sweat. (People with CF have unusually high amounts of chloride in their sweat.) We should get results the next day. Someone from our ped's office will be calling Riley on Friday to schedule the test.

I know it's likely a false alarm but please keep her in your thoughts between now and when we get those test results back. Crossing our fingers that Riley gets us in soon.

(Zach and I never had the screening done to see if we're CF carriers because when it was offered to us during my pregnancy with Lolli because it was presented as a test only necessary if there was a history of CF on either side of the family. Plus we wouldn't have done anything with the results anyway (termination would not have been an option for us regardless of the results). While there is a chance that we're both carriers (which would be necessary for Poppy to have CF), the odds are in our favor that this is a false positive OR she's just a carrier and does NOT have the disease)

http://www.cff.org/UploadedFiles/AboutCF/Testing/NewbornScreening/AbnormalTest/Newborn%20Screening-My%20baby%20had%20an%20abnormal%20test.pdf