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Pain and stress are key to shaping mental health and wellbeing during childhood. The Pain and Stress in Child Health Group seeks to understand pain and stress to advance knowledge and care of neonates, children and youth.
Study reveals that sucrose may not reduce the impact of neonatal pain exposure on long-term outcomes
Infants born two to four months early are exposed to mildly painful procedures in the NICU that are essential to monitor their health. As research shows that exposure to daily pain is associated with poorer behavioural and cognitive outcomes later in life, a common pain management strategy is to give those babies sucrose, but a BCCHR study shows evidence that a sugar solution doesn’t reduce these negative effects of pain exposure in the long term.
