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Vaccine-related pain: picking up the child soon after the injection reduces the time of crying
Department of Pediatrics, Second University of Naples, Italy
Correspondence to:
Nicola Santoro, Paediatrician, Department of Pediatrics, Second University of Naples, Italy; nicolasantoro@hotmail.com
Accepted 25 January 2008
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We read with great interest the article by Ipp et al.1 The authors raised an important point concerning the pain after immunisation, and they suggested that rapid injection is less painful than the slow standard technique.
As the authors observed, the pragmatic rapid injection is a very common technique for intramuscular injections in children. Working daily in this field, we experienced that performing the injection quickly and the child having immediate contact with the parent after the injection reduces the time of crying.
In the past two months, we performed 357 first doses of the DTaP-IPV-HIb-HBV hexavalent vaccine (Infanrix Hexa, GSK) with a pragmatic rapid injection technique (mean age 2.5±0.4 months; 168 females). Two hundred and thirty-two children (65%) cried after the injection. The mothers were either invited to pick up their child soon after the injection or asked not to pick up their child for at least
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