Not sure actually, I don’t think it’s super common for infants to be given painkillers at all? Tylenol is supposed to be mild enough to be given to babies in small doses, though.
Perhaps not, but you’d atleast think they’d give them a non-CNS depressing anaesthetic during the ‘procedure’, do they do it while they’re fully conscious?
nowadays it’s typically a local anesthetic like cream or nerve block, but some still just give sugar water as a distraction. Of course for a long time doctors believed babies straight up couldn’t feel pain and that anesthesia wasn’t necessary. Even today people just say “oh they’re too young to remember” which is… not how trauma works
Do they generally give the infant’s any sort of painkiller before/after the genital mutilation in the west?
Not sure actually, I don’t think it’s super common for infants to be given painkillers at all? Tylenol is supposed to be mild enough to be given to babies in small doses, though.
Perhaps not, but you’d atleast think they’d give them a non-CNS depressing anaesthetic during the ‘procedure’, do they do it while they’re fully conscious?
nowadays it’s typically a local anesthetic like cream or nerve block, but some still just give sugar water as a distraction. Of course for a long time doctors believed babies straight up couldn’t feel pain and that anesthesia wasn’t necessary. Even today people just say “oh they’re too young to remember” which is… not how trauma works
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/201501/circumcisions-psychological-damage ↩︎