Risks and Precautions for Newborn Eye Screening

Newborn Eye Screening is a special test for congenital and hereditary diseases that seriously endanger the health of newborns during the neonatal period according to the Implementation Measures of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Maternal and Infant Health Care, the Administrative Measures for Newborn Disease Screening of the Ministry of Health, and the National Standard for Child Health Care. This is an objective, sensitive, and non-invasive test that is easy to perform, quick to detect, and has a large field of view and high quality images to facilitate the early detection of fundus lesions in newborns. RetCam has been strictly monitored by the FDA and the State Food and Drug Administration for safe and reliable performance. Risks and Precautions: Possible complications of performing newborn eye screening include, but are not limited to: 1. The effect of the pupil-dilating medication is temporary and begins to gradually recover after 4 hours. 2. A very small number of children with idiosyncrasies may have reactions and allergies to anesthetic drugs. 3. Some children will have mild redness and swelling of the eyelids after the examination, but this will soon disappear. Some children may have subconjunctival hemorrhage and corneal epithelial detachment after the examination, which usually heals spontaneously after a few days, but timely eye medication and review are needed if necessary. 5, because the child will cry during the examination, so do not feed milk / water one hour before the examination, so as not to choke because of choking and coughing. 6, newborn eye screening results only reflect the child’s current eye condition, because after birth, especially before the age of 3, the structure and function of the eyes are developing rapidly, passing the initial screening does not mean that your baby will not develop eye problems in the process of growth and development. There are also some developmental eye diseases such as strabismus, amblyopia, refractive error, etc., which can only manifest themselves at a certain stage of development, and these eye diseases can be cured through timely correction later in life.