Pain treatment in pediatric dermatology.

Abstract

Pediatric dermatology is prevalently a medical discipline. Therefore, with regard to the pain, the most frequent problem is how visiting the child without causing a trauma to him/her, to his/her family, to the other children, who stay in the waiting room, and, finally to the physician. In this case we are dealing with a psychological problem, which can be overcome in most cases, if the physician knows the child world and its fears, namely if the physician works daily with children.
However, in some situations physicians should face the problem of the pain, namely of that unpleasant sensation, connected with actual or potential tissue damage and influenced by personal experiences of the first years of life (21). This subjective component is different in the various subjects and thus is responsible for a different, visible or audible, behavior reaction, to the tissue damage. The latter in Paediatric Dermatology is usually related to the skin laceration and to the stimulation of its nervous pain receptors. (...).