Contents:
- Medical Video: Baby Parenting Skills : How to Relieve Baby Gas Pain at Home
- Babies can feel pain from birth
- How do you know when your baby feels pain?
- How do you deal with pain in babies after immunization?
- 1. Feeding it
- 2. Hug her
- 3. Smelling
- 4. Sounds and toys
Medical Video: Baby Parenting Skills : How to Relieve Baby Gas Pain at Home
Everyone must have felt pain. Indeed, the existence of pain is to protect you. The onset of pain warns you that something you are doing or experiencing has the potential to harm you, and you should stop it.
How about a baby? Some people believe that the baby's brain has not developed enough to cause a sensation of pain, but is that true? Is this sensation not felt by the sick baby?
Babies can feel pain from birth
A recent study by Oxford University revealed that babies also feel pain. Research published in the journal eLife this compares the pain between 10 healthy babies aged 1-6 days with 10 healthy adults aged 23-36 years.
Research is done by doing scan in the baby's brain, after the baby is given stimulation that causes an effect on the soles of his feet, when the baby sleeps. Similar things were also applied to adult participants.
After the treatment, the study found that 18 of the 20 areas of the brain that were active when adults felt pain were also active in infants. The findings also explain that babies are more sensitive to pain than adults.
How do you know when your baby feels pain?
Because babies cannot speak, sometimes confusing parents to find out when the baby is feeling pain or not. Assessing the baby's crying is the most effective way to find out whether the baby is sick or not.
Not much different from adults, baby crying which means that he feels pain usually tends to suddenly and sound loud. The duration of crying also tends to be long and is followed by a number of delays when the baby steals his breath, because his breath is exhausted to cry.
The effect of vaccination is one of the things at the beginning of the baby's age that can cause the baby to get sick.
How do you deal with pain in babies after immunization?
Some things you can do to stop your baby's crying or overcome the pain effects of the vaccine your baby feels, include:
1. Feeding it
By breastfeeding the baby after the baby is given a vaccine, you can help him change his mind from "Sick, sick, sick." to be, "eat, eat, eat", so that it can also help reduce the duration of the baby's crying. However, this method is recommended to be carried out after administering the vaccine, because milk is feared that the baby will be expelled during the administration of the vaccine, if you breastfeed before the vaccine is given.
2. Hug her
Hugging the baby so that there is skin contact between you and your baby during the administration of the vaccine, can help calm the baby and distract him from the effects of the pain he will feel. But you should, make sure if your hug does not actually block the point to be injected. Usually this point is on your baby's thigh or arm.
3. Smelling
Gently rubbing the skin close to the part that gets vaccinated for about 10 seconds, can help reduce the pain the baby feels. You can even do this technique until your baby grows into children later.
4. Sounds and toys
In addition to breastfeeding, stroking and hugging it, giving it a favorite toy or playing a certain sound, both from a song even from the noise around you like sound vaccum cleanerYou can also try to distract him.
