It's an off-label use. It is designed as a pain reliever. Put a drop on a pacifier for babe to suck during painful procedures to help reduce the effects of pain. But nurses tend to use to it calm / quiet babies until the next feeding time, or when under the bililights, or to get babe to latch quickly rather than waiting for babe to find his own way onto the breast. NICUs and Nurseries only allow 30 minutes' time to feed, and it's back under the lights, so time is of the essence. Feed and be done with it.

Now, the nurses must sign for the sweetease and document pain assessment and post-use pain relief in the baby's chart. 
No longer do you see a little cup of sweetease with a 1cc syringe sticking out of it at every Nursery (Level III & II) bedside in my hospital. We got it for pain relief, and now it is used only for pain relief.

Phyllis


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Does anyone use or know of anyone using "sweetease', to get infants to latch

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