Phenylketonuria

Women with PKU should follow special diet before and during pregnancy

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 17th, 2002

Women with phenylketonuria (PKU) who are pregnant who abandon their special diet risk having babies with mental retardation, according to the February 15, 2002 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The use of newborn screening to prevent mental retardation in children with PKU is a major public health success.

In the United States there are an estimated 3000-4000 reproductive-aged women with PKU who - starting in the mid 1960s - were identified by newborn screening and placed on a diet that prevented the severe mental retardation associated with PKU.

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