Effect of suckling on the peripheral sensitivity of full-term newborn infants |
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| Authors: | Abdulkader H M Freer Y Fleetwood-Walker S M McIntosh N |
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| Institution: | Department of Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. |
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| Abstract: | BACKGROUND: Sucking may reduce the manifestations of pain in newborn infants. OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of suckling on the threshold for peripheral somatosensory responses. Subjects and methods: Graded Von Frey filaments were applied to the heel to initiate peripheral somatosensory responses (withdrawal reflex and gross body movements) in term infants. RESULTS: Dummy sucking increases the somatosensory threshold, but breast feeding had a more marked effect, increasing the threshold of the flexion withdrawal reflex (p
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