Reduce the pain of the vaccine with sugar water

One of the concerns and the most difficult of parents with their babies is the time for immunizations because after are restless and sore. Some time ago, pediatrician advised to give some sugar water to help the process of medicines in the child's body, but is now found in a study that could also help with the pain left by the vaccine.

With this simple solution of sugar and water pediatricians also expect to end the fears of parents and increase immunization rates for children. "Hopefully this will encourage parents to immunize their children," says one of the authors the study, Linda Hatfield School of Nursing at Pennsylvania State University, USA. "It's very simple, not expensive, and babies leave the clinic in the state in which they arrived. "

This new discovery will certainly help many mothers who are overly concerned about painkillers for babies. It is also a new form that meets the strategies designed to avoid the stress that causes the pain of vaccines in both children and parents, and among which thin needles include topical analgesics, among others.

The immunization schedule for infants is amazing. Infants and older children may receive up to 24 shots in his first two years of life. And sometimes they can even get 5 in one visit, so that mothers are distressed to see their children suffer. The sugar water should be given after 5, 7 and 9 minutes after receiving the vaccine and at 9 minutes 78 percent of children surveyed had only a little pain.