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Pain Control in Newborn Infants

Breast feeding for procedural pain relief
pain control and newborn infants
Pain controla nd new born infants

Breast feeding for procedural pain relief

J F Mannion, 17 Dec 2009 5:20 AM EST

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Skin to skin contact plus oral dextrose? Why not simply breast feed!

We over medicalise things. I can't see how giving an infant a non physiological dextrose solution should be trialled and not breast feeding

pain control and newborn infants

Lucy McNamara, 17 Dec 2009 10:34 PM EST

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Awaiting the study in which the study arms are breast feeding + skin- to-skin contact, dextrose 25% + skin-to-skin treatment, and standard pain medication.

Pain controla nd new born infants

J F Mannion, York Hospital, 22 Dec 2009 4:48 AM EST

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Which will never happen since noone but the mother "owns" breast milk and the multi billion dollar baby milk formula companies would be afraid of the outcome!

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