If you are reading these lines, it is already too late for you to administer sugar pain relief. But you would love it.
This pain relief is intended for babies. Or even for newborns.
I don’t know at what point it became an officially approved method, but it did.
Newborns, even very tiny and premature babies, undergo many different medical procedures, which are painful even for an adult: they prick their heels to take blood for analysis, they stick needles into arteries and veins, put tubes into stomachs and bladders, make intramuscular injections and make holes in the skin, rip off bandages and plasters, look into eyes. All this is unpleasant, leads to stress in the child and reduces the effectiveness of more serious pain relief for another reason.
And so it turned out that if such a tiny little tongue drip quite a bit of a thick solution of sugar before or during a painful procedure, this little thing is stunned by vivid sensations, and her perception decreases pain.
So they still haven't figured out what kind of mechanism works there, but the small fry yells less, her pulse is not right scales, curls the face less, and some pediatric pain scales there also respond well to this sugar.
They say that this trick works up to one and a half years.
We have already discussed this case. in the topic about salty taste. You have to get used to it. But we have a craving for sweets since birth.
Sweets don't help you cope with pain?
