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Almost every US child has blood work done on an annual basis? For what? What are they looking for? Lead specifically?
by nommm-nommm 11y ago
Almost every US child has blood work done on an annual basis? For what? What are they looking for? Lead specifically?
- officemonkey 11y agoI have a US child and I don't believe he's ever had blood work done.
- ams6110 11y agoIf your child is seeing a peditrician on a regular basis they will almost certainly test for lead levels at age 1 or 2. They do not test for it or do other blood work routinely after than unless high levels are found. I remember getting a finger stick almost every visit to the doctor as a kid, but that was just for cell counts and maybe sugar that they did in the office, not a full panel of tests.
- snowwrestler 11y agoYes, this is what I meant but phrased it poorly above. I guess a better way to say it is that almost every child has had blood work done an annual basis. But it reads like kids get a full blood workup every year, which is not true.