%0 Journal Article %A Z Hassan %A M Shah %T Scald injury from the Guthrie test: should the heel be warmed? %D 2005 %R 10.1136/adc.2005.072678 %J Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition %P F533-F534 %V 90 %N 6 %X A 6 day old boy sustained scalds to his right foot from application of a “warm nappy” to increase blood flow to facilitate heel pricking for a routine Guthrie test. It is proposed that active warming of the heel in isolation is not necessary in heel blood sampling. %U https://fn.bmj.com/content/fetalneonatal/90/6/F533.full.pdf