You’ll Feel a Little Pressure…
2009-10-18 18:14:30 // The Operator
- Use soap bubbles to distract babies and younger children. Parents can hold a plastic bubble-making wand in front of their child’s mouth and let them “blow away the hurt.” For crying babies, making a bubble will give them something to focus on besides the pain.
- Try relaxation exercises. Tell older kids and teens to breathe out slowly as if they are blowing up a big balloon. Or ask children to use their imaginations to create a vision of a fun place like the beach or park.
- Apply a numbing cream or patch. Ask your doctor for a prescription and apply it to your child before you go to the office. Make sure you put it in the place where the shot will go — the arm or the thigh.
- Take the Sting Out of Your Child’s Flu Shots
by Randy Dotinga
2009-10-18
Don’t forget to tell your little ones that it’s for the best, even if it does mean they’re being exposed to toxic chemicals and the risk of debilitating disease or life-long allergies (vaccine adjuvants provoke immune system responses and vaccines themselves include extraneous components like peanut oil… do the math) because you fell for some media hype which is meant, if nothing else, to enrich soulless pharmaceutical corporations.
