Previously, infants operated on without anesthesia, because they thought that they did not feel pain Bashny.Net

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The belief that young children do not feel pain, like the ravings of a madman, but it's a fact: until the 1980s, when operations such as circumcision or injection doctors do not consider it necessary to give the young patients a pain reliever, as believed that infants are unable to feel pain.

It is difficult to imagine how unbearably long and painful hours had to hold newborns and infants in the tables in the operating because of this barbarous beliefs. Surprisingly not even the fact that one of the doctors long ago announced this information, but the fact that generations of doctors have been absolutely convinced of their truth.

It is not clear why none of the surgeons did not notice the reaction of babies at the touch of a scalpel. Rather, the doctors saw, but did not pay attention, thinking it was another childish whims. The most sensitive and restless babies, actively express their attitude to surgical procedures without anesthesia, even given drugs, muscle relaxants, deny them the ability to move, but at the same time preserving the sensitivity of nerve tissue, so that children suffering from incredible pain, could only helplessly blink.

Now medicine is aware that the ability to feel pain - one of the first complex psychophysiological functions that appear in humans. All the possibilities for and the perception of pain in the child formed around the 30th week of life, when he was still in the womb - from that moment he begins to feel pain is not worse than the adults.

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