Little pain as precursor

Thank you anonymous for posting your thoughts to this page. I tend to disagree with your opinion, but it is your opinion. Many reseearchers have completed studies on pain managment and it's effects of pain tolerance in later years. Taddio, Katz, Ilerich and Koren published a study conducted on the Effects of Neonatal Circumcision on Pain Response during Subsequent Routine Vaccination. Their preliminary studies suggested that the pain experienced by infants and neonates in the neonatal period may have long lasting effects on behaviour associated with pain in later years. Their study followed circumcised infant boys, those who had EMLA cream applied previous to the freezing for circumcision and those who had not, versus uncircumcised boys and their follow up immunizations at four-six month mark. Taddio et al found that boys who did not have EMLA applied prior to circumcision had a higher pain response to immunization injections than the EMLA group and the uncircumcised group. This study is providing growing proof that providing pain relief for minor procedures does help children cope better with procedures later in life. When we come across adults who are frightened of needles and ask how they fear developed they usually have a story of a painful procedure that involved needles, and describe that as their first fear. If we develop fears, then why do we brush off pain control in infants when undergoing medical procedures? Do they really learn to be tough? Remember that pain management does not always have to be medicinal.