Pat said:
 
>>heel stick is not quite as accurate as venous.
We didn't  used to feed babies ANYTHING for 18-24 hours, that's why all the 
brain  impaired people are making up the rules now :-b  Sorry I'm so  
cranky<<
 
 
Ahhhh -- but Bill Gates wasn't fed for the first 24 hours of his life  and 
he's made a gazillion $$.  The problem is, now that we have  glucometers, 
and it is so EASY to do a heel stick, we make it the  golden rule.  We now 
have to have a disease to use these nifty  gadgets.  Sorta like bililights.  
And Glucophage and Lipitor.  As  soon as they invent something that is 
relatively inexpensive, we have new  parameters for use -- not necessarily wrong, 
mind you, but there it  is.
 
I worry about the glucometer readings and treating babies based on  those, 
particularly if it means giving formula.  For anyone that has ever  taken 
their blood sugar using one of those, you can do a finger stick, see what  
your sugar is, wipe your finger off, squeeze out another drop of blood in less  
than 30 seconds, re do it, and the levels can be as much as 10 points  
different.  
 
Why are we putting our faith in these gadgets which might be  inaccurate?  
Perhaps if you get a glucoscan below 50, wait a minute,  squeeze the heel 
again, and try again.  Maybe you could go for the best of  three?
 
Jan Barger, who is also one of the non-fed  infants. 

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