How To Reduce Pain Vaccination in Infants

For infants under the age of one year, cream lidocaine, combined with feeding a little sugar in the mouth will calm the baby when vaccination. Lidocaine is a local anaesthetic that causes loss of sensation of pain in the body. The combination can help reduce pain during routine vaccination, according to a study in CMAJ ( Canadian Medical Association Journal ), this December.

Assembly: Pharmacists Can Make The Flu Vaccine

The National Assembly has reinstated Monday evening the opportunity for pharmacists to carry out vaccinations against influenza for all adults on an experimental basis, as provided in the draft budget of the Secu which had been limited by the Senate.