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Dr. Ian Holzman: “Warmth + Sugar = Less Vaccination Pain for Babies”

  • Medpage Today
  • New York, NY
  • (February 16, 2015)

Babies given radiant warmth plus a sucrose solution tolerated painful procedures better than babies only given sucrose, according to a small randomized, controlled trial. Discussant Ian Holzman, MD, chief of newborn medicine at the Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai in New York City, saw the merits of the study in helping to alleviate the pain of necessary vaccinations for babies. "There is some thought that repeated painful procedures as a baby change your behavior when you get older around painful stimuli," said Holzman. "Neonatal intensive care units and people caring for babies could probably add this to their armamentarium of preventing or decreasing pain in babies who get painful procedures." Learn more