Be Sweet to Babies During Nasolaryngoscopy

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Infant Conditions

In brief

The investigators want to know if sugar water containing 24% sucrose is helpful in reducing pain in babies during scopes.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06641687

Run by

The Hospital for Sick Children

People needed

60

Starts

2024-09-23

Expected to finish

2025-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-07-04

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patient <12 months of age;
• Scheduled for an appointment with Dr. Nikolaus Wolter or Dr. Jennifer Siu, who are Staff Pediatric Otolaryngologists at the Hospital for Sick Children, or Meghan Tepsich, a complex airway Nurse Practitioner at SickKids;
• Requiring flexible nasolaryngoscopy for diagnostic purposes;
• Accompanied by caregivers who provided consent.

You may not qualify if…

• Patient >12 months of age
• Infants <37 weeks corrected gestational age
• Infants with decreased level of consciousness or delayed neuromuscular development with limited pain response
• Infants who have received acute/urgent /emergent airway assessment such as respiratory distress or a foreign body, etc.
• Infants who have received topical anesthesia (topical decongestant/anesthetic spray)
• Infants with the following conditions, where oral sucrose is contraindicated or ineffective:
• Carbohydrate intolerance
• Decreased level of consciousness or heavy sedation
• Absent gag reflex
• Non-functional gastrointestinal tract
• History of aspiration, tracheoesophageal fistula
• Necrotizing enterocolitis
• Infants whose parents did not consent to enrolling their child in the study, including randomization into either arm of the study due to preference for a given intervention
• Any other circumstance in which consent for participation in the study was not obtained prior to the scope
• Infants will also be excluded from the study if they present with conditions in which FNL is contraindicated:
• Severe respiratory distress
• Post-palliative systemic artery to pulmonary artery shunt
• Single ventricle congenital heart disease

Where it is running

• The Hospital for Sick Children — Toronto, Ontario, Canada (enrolling)

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