Afraid of needles? Here's how to prepare your child for Covid vaccine

Your child’s experience of needles in their early years may impact how they feel about and react to subsequent vaccinations. So it’s important to reduce the chance of a negative experience.

But what can parents do to help prepare their child for the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine or other injections?

Fear or phobia?

Most children are fearful of needles. But for some children, this fear is more serious and can be defined as a needle phobia.

Needle phobia is a very scary and distressing response to the presence of or reaction to a needle, for example, to take blood