It’s not something that needs medical intervention, necessarily, because there’s nothing that can be done, and most live through it. Also, until shockingly recently, the medical field assumed (or maybe hoped?) infants can’t feel pain.
Also, until shockingly recently, the medical field assumed (or maybe hoped?) infants can’t feel pain.
That belief is still pervasive, at least to some extent, which is something that’s always kinda bewildered me. Like, baby comes out and first thing we do is rub it with an abrasive towel, and slap its feet and ass to make it cry so it starts deep breathing, then literally turn around and cut the tip of its dick off without any anesthetic because it can’t feel pain?! What the fuck made it cry when we slapped its ass if it can’t feel pain?!
For a field stuffed with people who have made it through medical school, we can be dumb as shit sometimes.
I wouldn’t change anything except the assumption in the overall medical field that infants can’t feel pain. I don’t know much more about this specific condition, but I have a different condition in which they assumed infants can’t feel pain, and they were wrong enough that I still have trauma from that.
Take any medical knowledge from 20+ years ago that sounds horribly painful with a grain of salt, because that was the assumption relatively recently. Some doctors who learnt medicine more than 20 years ago still think that.
I looked it up, doesn’t seem that bad.
Every inch of your body’s skin being hardened and cracked to the point nearly every surface nerve is exposed and raw doesn’t seem that bad?
What does seem bad to you?
Wikipedia didn’t have that detail…sounds a lot worse now.
It’s not something that needs medical intervention, necessarily, because there’s nothing that can be done, and most live through it. Also, until shockingly recently, the medical field assumed (or maybe hoped?) infants can’t feel pain.
Turns out they can, though.
e: I can’t spell
That belief is still pervasive, at least to some extent, which is something that’s always kinda bewildered me. Like, baby comes out and first thing we do is rub it with an abrasive towel, and slap its feet and ass to make it cry so it starts deep breathing, then literally turn around and cut the tip of its dick off without any anesthetic because it can’t feel pain?! What the fuck made it cry when we slapped its ass if it can’t feel pain?!
For a field stuffed with people who have made it through medical school, we can be dumb as shit sometimes.
I’ve honestly wondered whether circumcision dulls boys’ empathy?
If the first experience you have in the world is extreme pain in your most vulnerable place, what does that teach you?
Maybe update the Wiki, you seem to know a lot about the condition.
The language used is very mild.
I wouldn’t change anything except the assumption in the overall medical field that infants can’t feel pain. I don’t know much more about this specific condition, but I have a different condition in which they assumed infants can’t feel pain, and they were wrong enough that I still have trauma from that.
Take any medical knowledge from 20+ years ago that sounds horribly painful with a grain of salt, because that was the assumption relatively recently. Some doctors who learnt medicine more than 20 years ago still think that.
e: Groundbreaking research in 2015 says babies do feel pain. 2015.