Is screening for neonatal diseases necessary?

Newborn disease screening is necessary to do, most congenital genetic metabolic diseases, normal performance at birth, growth and development process gradually appear symptoms, such as hypothyroidism, early symptoms are light, a few months or 1-2 years old, can be found with the normal child growth is different; phenylketonuria, no difference with normal children at birth, a few months later the hair from black to yellow, fairer skin tone, urine, sweat has a special smell, on The impact on intelligence is greater. Blood is collected 3 days after birth, early detection, intervention and treatment, intelligence can be normal, after the development of intelligence and then intervention, the impact on intelligence, it is difficult to reverse.