Sugar water to reduce the pain of vaccines

One of the concerns and the most difficult moments of the parents with their babies is when vaccines because after are restless and sore. Some time ago the pediatricians advised to give a little sugar water to help the process of medicines in the body of the child, but now sugar water is found study could also help with the pain left by vaccines.

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

This new discovery will certainly help many mothers who worry too much about the pain for babies. In addition is a new form that binds with strategies designed to avoid the stress that causes sore vaccines in both children and parents, and between thin needles include topical analgesics.

The babies and older children can receive up to 24 injections in their first two years of life. And sometimes we may even get 5 in one visit, so that mothers are anxious to see their children suffer. The sugar water should be given after 5, 7 and 9 minutes after receiving the vaccine and nine minutes, more than 78 percent of children surveyed had only a little pain.