Pain management in babies
Minimized, the management of baby’s pain has long remained the poor relation of medicine. When faced with a child who suffers, there are solutions. In the hospital in particular, children’s pain is well taken care of …
Physical pain in the baby
Cries, tears, a tense body… So many signs of distress, suffering, not always easy to distinguish from hunger, fatigue or stress. Far from being a mere theory, pain in toddlers is finally a recognized reality. From maternity to pediatric emergencies, all infants someday undergo painful care.
Evaluation: an obligation
Unlike adults, babies cannot express pain clearly. It is up to the nursing staff to conduct the investigation by closely monitoring your child’s grimaces, tremors, and general attitude. ” Partnerships with parents should be favored because they know their child and his usual behavior ”, explains Bénédicte Lombard, nursing manager.
During his observation, the doctor or the nursery nurse fills in a table noting for each category, its intensity. As at school, he calculates the total at the end. But be careful, the result does not give absolute truth. It is simply a decision aid to set up a treatment. In addition, this technique, called hetero-evaluation, can vary, depending on the case, from one baby to another.