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>heather wrestled with a keyboard and this emerged:
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>> an icterometer (mentioned on this list a week or so ago!) which is a
>> pocket-held colour-matching tool costing 20 US dollars; staff learning to
>> train their eyes; and lab blood sample ordered when there is a reading of
>> 3.5 on the icterometer.
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>I, not being in a position where the numbers are crucial but often
>needing to buttress a mom's flagging resolve, use the baby as it's
>own comparison tool. Since the color goes into the palms and soles
>last, I hold the baby's palm up to it's face, then it's tummy. That
>way any individual skin tones that might otherwise be confusing are
>eliminated.
Yes, this is one of the things Hey teaches his students to do.
The advantage of the icterometer is that it is useful for babies from
non-white ethnic groups (held pressed against the gums, rather than the
nose).
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK
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