Reduce vaccination pain in babies - Part 5: Sugar Water

This is the fifth video in a series on reducing vaccination pain in your baby.
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This video is provided for general information only. It does not replace a diagnosis or medical advice from a healthcare professional who has examined your child and understands their unique needs. Please speak with your doctor to check if the content is suitable for your situation.

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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Reduce the pain of vaccination in babies: Sugar water.  

You can control your baby's physical pain during vaccinations with sugar water.

There are many randomized control trials that have shown that a sugar water seems to be an effective way of reducing the pain. Probably by a number of mechanisms, whether it's just the taste that these little infants have an amount which is distracting them or whether there's some interference in the neurological pathways. It really seems to be affected. You can make your own sugar water. Just mix a packet of white sugar, which is about 1 teaspoon, or five milliliters, in 2 teaspoons, or 10 milliliters, of water. You can use distilled water or boiled water. You can use tap water and older infants if you know that the water in your area is safe for drinking. Put a drop at a time in your baby's mouth about a minute or two before the needle.

Using a dropper syringe or medicine cup, you can also dip a soother in sugar water and give your baby the soother to suck on during the needle. Be careful not to squirt the sugar water directly in the middle of your baby's mouth. This can cause your baby to gag or spit up. Instead, put it on the side of the baby's mouth, inside the cheek. Hospitals use sugar water to reduce pain in babies, even newborn babies.  

It is safe and effective, but only use this as a pain medicine, not as a general comfort or as a food.

This is one of the many ways of reducing your baby's pain during vaccinations.  

Don't forget to view the rest of the videos in this series. Remember, combining the different methods together will 
lead to even better results.

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