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When it comes to Injections, Bigger Really Is Better

Later, explanations might be necessary, but a British study has found that infants vaccinated with longer, fatter needles experience fewer adverse reactions but get the same protection.

While it has long been a standard recommendation that long, wide needles be used to deliver required vaccines to infants, many physicians in the United Kingdom have opted for narrower, shorter needles, if only because there was no empirical evidence to indicate longer, wider needles were more effective.

Not to mention shorter, thinner needles sound less painful.

The new study examined 696 infants who were randomly immunized. Children immunized with the longer, wider needles showed the fewest adverse reactions – if you ignore the crying.

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