Sweets help babies with injection pain

Though parents try hard to avoid them, it appears that giving a sweet solution to children before injections reduces pain.

Research published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, advised that healthcare professionals should give babies aged one to twelve months half a teaspoon of sucrose or glucose due to their improved reaction to injection.

The study conducted by a team of researchers from Toronto in Canada, Melbourne in Australia and Sao Paulo in Brazil, discovered that children taking the solution cried less often and for less time.