Using Sugar Water to Relieve Pain in Infants

The Hospital for Sick Children

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Diabetes; Infant, Newborn; Pain

Treatments: Drug: Sucrose

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00213213

1000002771

CIHR MCT-63143

ISRCTN23411530

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will examine the safety and effectiveness of sugar water to relieve pain in newborn infants during painful blood tests and injections. Infants of diabetic mothers who receive repeated blood tests will be compared to infants of healthy mothers who receive routine painful procedures.

We believe that administration of sucrose analgesia for every painful cutaneous procedure performed after delivery will result in less pain during the newborn infant screening test.

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 3 days old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy newborn infants ≥36 weeks gestation
• infants born to mothers with diabetes (type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes that is diet-controlled or insulin-dependent)and infants born to mothers without diabetes

Exclusion criteria

• Admission to the neonatal intensive care unit
• plan to undergo circumcision during the study period
• major congenital or neurological anomalies
• clinical diagnosis of birth asphyxia or seizures
• receiving analgesics or sedatives

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind