"For babies under age  year lidocaine cream combined with a small amount of sugar given by mouth and infant soothing can help relieve pain from routine vaccinations according to a study http in CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal. Vaccinations cause acute distress for both infants and their parents contributing to vaccination avoidance states Dr. Anna Taddio a pharmacist and senior associate scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children SickKids and professor Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy University of Toronto Toronto Ontario. However there are gaps in knowledge about what is the best way to alleviate pain during vaccination. To address this gap researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial including  healthy infants from  pediatric outpatient clinics including  physician practices who received scheduled vaccinations in their first year of life. The infants were randomized to  of  groups placebo control video instruction to parents on how to soothe their baby video plus oral sugar solution and video oral sugar solution and lidocaine applied to the skin. We found that when used consistently during vaccine injections in the first year of life only liposomal lidocaine combined with parental video instruction and orally administered sucrose showed a benefit on acute pain when compared with placebo video alone and video and sucrose together wrote the authors. The effects of consistent pain management on the development of preprocedural anxiety fear hypersensitivity to pain and compliance with future vaccination warrant future investigation they recommend.  The study was conducted by researchers at SickKids the University of Toronto York University and several Torontobased pediatricians."