As a parent, I used to watch our son receive painful vaccination and allergy shots without any anesthesia. The only thing I could offer was a tight hug, often inviting disapproving looks from nurses and physicians.
According to the American Nursing Association's Smartbrief, a new Turkish study published in March, 2009 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, breastfeeding significantly reduced vaccination pain in babies. When pediatricians measured crying time and pain (Infant Pain Scale and Children's Pain Scale) during vaccination in children between ages of 6 to 48 months, breastfed babies suffered less pain .
Children who received either sucrose (sugar water) or lidocaine-prilocaine (cream) also had reduced pain, but the cream is expensive and more time consuming.
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