An examination in which a sample of fluid surrounding the fetus is withdrawn.
A needle is inserted through the skin of the mother’s abdomen into the wall of the uterus and then into the fluid without touching the child or the placenta.
We will need 15-20 ml of liquid for the examination. Which is about ten times the amount of fluid around the fetus during the fourth month of pregnancy.
Measure the percentage of fetal protein (alpha-feto protein). If the child has a cleft lip, the amount of protein in the fluid is greater.
The cells in the fluid can be used to examine the fetus’s chromosomes. It is easy to know if a child has Mongolian (Down Syndrome: Triglyceride 21) or any of the other less common chromosomal problems.
There are a number of other tests that can be conducted but such tests can only be done if it is known that parents are at risk of having a child with a very rare disease because it requires high technology and is expensive.
Your doctor will tell you the results of the amniotic fluid test. In most cases, he or she can also tell you the child’s gender if you want to know about it.
Women who are 37 years of age or older at birth.
- The higher the age of a woman, the more likely she is to have a child with chromosomal defects. Mongolian disease is a common disease.
- The rate of having a child with chromosomal defects is about 1% in women aged 37-40 years. This percentage increases after 40 years.
- This test can be done at any stage of the pregnancy, but it is better and safer to wait until the 14th week to do it.
2. Women who have a child with a chromosomal problem such as Mongolian or spinal cleavage.
3. Women (or father of the child) who are known to have chromosomal abnormalities or parents known to be at risk of having a child with a rare metabolic disease.
The sonar will reveal if there is more than one fetus and that the fetus and the placenta appear normal, and it will confirm the age of the fetus and the location of the placenta and the embryo will be placed so that they will not be beaten with the test bulb.
The sonar examination alone can not exclude the presence of Mongolian, although some signs may indicate Mongolian presence.
Your bladder should be empty. The sonar is then tested. The skin is cleaned with iodine solution and then wiped sterile. The needle is inserted into the uterus. The sonar helps guide the needle to the right place. The checkout process takes approximately one minute. After removing the needle and examining the embryo again with the schnar, you can leave. You can go home after a quarter-hour break.
Most women, without exception, tell us that the discomfort they experienced during the examination was much less than they had expected, and was even very simple.
You can drive your car to the house after the examination, but it would be better to have someone else with you to take you home after the examination. It is usually recommended that you rest for the rest of the day (and the next day if possible), but you do not have to stick to your bed, but you can practice everyday, non-exhausting daily work.
1. Abortion:
- The incidence of abortions is very low, with one case per 200 tests.
2. Failure:
- This examination, like any other test, may fail because a sample is not obtained in sufficient quantity or because the laboratory is unable to produce a result.
3 – loss of amniotic fluid through the vagina.
It is very rare to face any problems or difficulties after examination. You may feel slightly uncomfortable because there are simple blood clots under the skin. If you lose any fluid or blood from the vagina, if you feel any pain after the examination, see your doctor immediately.
The result of the cleft palate examination will be available after about a week and ultrasound can detect most of the fetuses infected with this disease with expert hands only.
The examination of chromosomes for the detection of Mongolian or other takes two weeks because of the need to implant the sample in the laboratory.
In the end…
Examination of amniotic fluid has very few complications but is given to patients in special cases, the most common of which is the mother aged 37 or older. The aim of this examination is to detect Mongolian and any chromosomal abnormalities as well as detect cleft palate.
You must know that the sonar procedure in addition to the amniotic fluid test is very useful to make sure that the child is normal, but it does not guarantee the exclusion of any defect or potential problem, there are problems in the genes (very small parts chromosomes) can never be detected. The examination may be normal but the fetus is deformed.
We call for a healthy pregnancy and a safe birth for all, .