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Treating Your Child's Pain: Medical Procedures


During certain medical procedures, your child may experience pain. These procedures can include having blood drawn, having breathing or feeding tubes put in, or lumbar punctures (spinal taps). Luckily, pain from these activities does not last long. Read on to find out how your child's pain from medical procedures can be managed.
Pain medicinesThere are a wide variety of pain medicines that can control pain from procedures. In some cases, they are given before or during the procedure....

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