The Difficulty Of Treating Children's Pain

"As if things weren’t difficult enough, the AAP Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine has published a clinical report in the September Pediatrics that aims to remind providers that it is “time to say no” to one of the our most popular pain medications: codeine. Sadly, the authors are not raising new concerns. Instead, they are once again pointing out serious problems with this drug, problems we have known about for over a decade that have resulted in deaths and inadequately treated pain."

American Academy of Pediatrics Calls for End to Pediatric Codeine Use…Again

It's OK To Let Babies Cry Themselves To Sleep, Study Finds

- - - this approach – while noisy – is perfectly healthy for children, according to a study from Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.