Our hospital uses a product called Sweet Eze (spelling?) as a pain reliever for babies during medical procedures. I think you can check with the product manufacturer for research on what the product was designed to do or intended to be used for. I suggest you start with your own hospital's protocols for use of the product. Try to get them revised to exclude feeding, relaxing baby so s/he will sleep (another favorite at my hospital), and all other "off-label" uses for the product.

It has become very popular among NICU RNs, Levels II and III, to get baby to breast quickly so baby can feed eagerly within the allotted 30 minute window before they must be wrapped for 3 hours of sleeping. I had a full term Level II baby who was willing to do the "search mom's chest and find the breast on my own" process when the NICU RN said, "I don't have time for this c**p!" She wrapped the baby, binding his arms down, squirted the Sweet Eze on mom's nipple, grabbed the breast, rubbed baby's mouth on the nipple, baby opened and the nurse pushed baby onto the breast. Baby began sucking. Yes, I got someone to re-educate the nurse. That lasted as long as the "educating" RN was in the room.

I'm tired of the battles.
Phyllis

---- Betsy Ayers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
  My question is about use of this highly conc sucrose used to get 
> babies to latch quicker. We are seeing babies not going to the breast now
> without the sucrose.  Yes colostrum is sweet but it seems not as sweet. 
> This rememids me of the days when pacifiers were vanilla flavored and 
> babies stopped latching until we got rid of those.
> Yes I am attempting to stop nurses from using this on nipples but I need 
> some evidence-based info too if possible.
> Anyone know of research about the use of this 24 % sucrose and interferen
> with latching or what it can do to the baby's gut. 
 

--
Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC, RLC
Glendale, AZ.
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