Sweet taste causes release of endogenous endorphins. Certainly, dorsal
penile nerve block is the standard of care. But if it's between NOTHING and
sucrose, at least give the baby sucrose. We demonstrated the analgesic
effect in our study.
Peggy Herschel, MD
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