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I doubt the placebo effect is present in teething babies.
by baobrain 10y ago
I doubt the placebo effect is present in teething babies.
- vinay427 10y agoIt may very well be present in the parents/caretakers of teething babies.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoHaving a young child will bring out the superstitious idiot in you. Last night the baby went to sleep because I walked counter-clockwise while singing lullabies? That's it, that's the only direction I can walk in from here on out while putting her to bed. The kid ate her veggies with no complaint because I was humming The Simpsons theme? It's now the official meal-time song.
- gknoy 10y agoThese seem profoundly irrational, but one thing I've noticed is that young kids are profoundly irrational beings. You will feel like a vulcan by comparison. My kid flips out if I put the blankets on her in the wrong layering order .... but "wrong" is different every night.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoMine's 9 months old; she doesn't care what I hum or how I turn. My examples are 100% me being irrational. When she gets older and starts having well-developed preferences, then I will no longer be crazy - only my behavior will be, because I'll be in thrall to a tiny crazy person.
- sidlls 10y agoYes, this. Babies communicate by crying and cooing. It's difficult to tell what's causing them to cry absent something obvious (like an injury). I could easily picture a parent trying anything and thinking it works purely out of coincidence.
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoActually after some time you get to differentiate different cries. I now can identify if my kiddo wants to sleep, is hungry or wants his mum. Talking to nurses working with babies apparently this is a thing and they get to understand babies quite well when they cry.
- acchow 10y agoPlacebo in the experimenter, not the subject. That's why placebo-controlled experimental setups aren't sufficient. You need to make it double-blind.
- ars 10y agoYou'd be wrong. Placebo effect works on babies as well.
- seanwilson 10y agoPlacebo has been shown to happen in babies and even animals I believe when proper blinding is not done. The behaviour of the carer will change when they know a real treatment hasn't been given which will impact the participant.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoThe placebo works on the caregivers not the baby. Parents rate their children as hyperactive after consuming sugar, no matter if the "sugar" is actually just red colored water. It's perception that's changed.