Sucrose does not lessen colic

Posted by admin on December 11th, 2009 | No Comments »

There is an effect on infants that stops them crying when given sweet sucrose, so they did a study to see if it affected colicky babies.

I have to admit that I did not buy the full pdf file, mainly because the study was with only 19 infants. That number is too small to be a bullet proof theory.

12 out of 19 babies improved. But the summary does not say what improved means.

Worth a try? I doubt it.

http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/76/4/356

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