“…Galactosemia is a life-threatening disease for itself or for other complications like sepsis, so in countries like ours that do not have screening program for galactosemia, it should be investigated for the presence of clinical signs and symptoms. When there is no screening program, it is useful to find the presence of reducing substances in the urine [8,9,15,16,18] being able to demonstrate galactose in carbohydrate chromatography [16,18], with this finding galactose should be suspended from the diet; quantification of galactose and galactose 1P is required.…”