Question

What is amniocentesis​

Answer 1

What is amniocentesis?

Amniocentesis (also called amnio) is a prenatal test that takes amniotic fluid from around your baby in the uterus (also called womb). The fluid is tested to see if your baby has certain health conditions. A prenatal test is a medical test you get during pregnancy. Talk to your health care provider to see if amnio is right for you.

Amnio is a diagnostic test. This means that it tells you for sure whether or not your baby has a health condition. This is different from a screening test that tells if your baby’s more likely than others to have a certain condition. If results of a screening test aren’t normal, you may want to have a diagnostic test like amnio to diagnose (find out) if your baby has a condition. Amnio results almost always are correct.

Answer 2

Amniocentesis.

Amniocentesis is a prenatal diagnostic technique to determine the genetic disorders, if any. and sex of the foetus.

Misuse of Amniocentesis.

Unfortunately, the useful technique of amniocentesis is being misused to kill the normal female foetuses as it can help detect the sex of foetus also. Some way out to end this malpractice must be found. Understanding of equality of sexes can help in this matter. Determination of sex by amniocentesis has been banned.