Ladies,
u heard of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in newborn? My colleague just give birth recently & her boy was diagnose with this deficiency.
Babies with G6PD deficiencyappear normal at birth. They may experience neonatal jaundice and hemolysis that can be so serious as to cause neurologic damage or even death. Barring such severe complications in the newborn period, infants with G6PD deficiencygenerally experience normal growth and development. Exposure to certain antimalarial drugs and sulfonamides, infection stress (such as upper respiratory or GI infections), environmental agents (e.g. moth balls), and eating certain foods (e.g. fava beans), each of which impact the patients ability to handle oxidative reactions, can cause acute hemolytic anemia.
I wonder what is the chances or risk factor that bb will gunna this...