Analgesic effect of expressed breast milk in procedural pain in neonates.
Prevention, treatment and assessment of neonatal pain have been of major clinical and scientific interest the last decades. Non-pharmacological interventions such as sweet oral solutions are successful in pain relief. Whether breast milk, with its lactose content of 7%, has any effect on the prevention of pain has been debated.


CONCLUSIONS
Randomized studies of breast milk in prevention and treatment of neonatal pain are needed.
Schollin
J
J
Department of Paediatrics, Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden. jens.schollin@orebroll.se
D000698:Analgesia / Q000379:methods*; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000379:methods; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D019937:Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008895:Milk, Human; D010146:Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*