Sentences with phrase «infant pain responses»

This article shows a tragic lack of understanding of infant pain responses.

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Whether in pain, or experiencing some other distress, infants who are crying need assistance to reduce their distress, return their stress response system and the functioning of the HPA axis to a calm state, and train up their vagal nerve for healthful functioning.

Slater and her colleagues observed the same pain - related activity in 12 preterm infants in response to heel pricking, even in the absence of grimacing, one of the traditional behavioral measures of infant pain, but failed to detect it when the babies» feet were anesthetized.

Some infants may grow into children who have a lower - or higher - than - normal response to pain, and some may be at risk for chronic pain conditions, he says.

In the neonatal period, it seems that behavioural and heart rate responses to pain are reduced in newborn infants exposed to SSRIs in utero [59].