Look away now! Why turning your 長，率いる really does take the sting out of 注射s

By CLAIRE BATES

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It is age old advice 手渡すd 負かす／撃墜する by school nurses to 世代s of children receiving their 正規の／正選手 jabs. Now scientists have 設立する look ing away during an 注射 genuinely does make them いっそう少なく painful.

A 熟考する／考慮する in the 適切な 肩書を与えるd 医療の 定期刊行物 苦痛, 設立する that 除去するing fearful 予期 helped to 除去する the sting of an 注射.

研究員s from the University of 薬／医学 in Berlin and University 医療の Centre in Hamburg have 設立する your past experience of needle pricks 影響（力）s how you 反応する later on.

Look away now: Volunteers felt the most pain from a mild electrical shock when watching a video of someone being pricked by a needle

Look away now: Volunteers felt the most 苦痛 from a 穏やかな 電気の shock when watching a ビデオ of someone 存在 pricked by a needle

They asked a group of volunteers to watch ビデオ clips showing a 手渡す 存在 pricked by a needle, a 手渡す 存在 touched by a cotton bud and a 手渡す on its own.

The 審査する was positioned in such a way that it looked as if it might be the volunteer’s own 手渡す they were watching.

While they 見解（をとる）d the clips, small 電気の stimuli were passed through their own 手渡す, some painful and others painless.

The volunteers 報告（する）／憶測d that they felt the most 苦痛 during the clips of a needle pricking a 手渡す compared to the cotton bud or 手渡す alone clips.

This was 支援するd up by the results of 監視するing their 注目する，もくろむs and watching for pupil dilation - a 調印する of activity in the nervous system, 刺激するd by 苦痛.

Lead 研究員 Marion Hofle said: 'Throughout our lives we 繰り返して experience that needles 原因（となる） 苦痛 when pricking our 肌.

'But 期待s - like （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） given by the clinician 事前の to an 注射, may also 影響（力） how 見解（をとる）ing needle pricks 影響する／感情s 苦痛.'

Holfe said the simple advice from a nurse 作品 because it 減ずるs a 患者’s 期待 about the ‘strength of 来たるべき 苦痛 事前の to an 注射.'

She 追加するd: '見解（をとる）ing a needle prick leads to 高めるd 苦痛 perception 同様に as to 高めるd autonomic nervous system activity.

'We’ve 供給するd empirical 証拠 in favour of the ありふれた advice not to look at the needle prick when receiving an 注射.'

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