What is Buzzy^®?

Buzzy^® uses natural pain relief by confusing your body's own nerves and distracting attention away from the poke, thereby dulling or eliminating sharp pain. In the same way that rubbing a bumped elbow helps stop the hurt, or cool running water soothes a burn, Buzzy^® bypasses sharp pain.

In an emergency department, nurses and doctors can get too busy to wait for numbing creams for needle procedures. For newly diagnosed diabetic children, the medical community has a history of expecting kids to just get used to needle pain. For shots, for bee stings, for boo-boos, for injected medicines,… for all acute pain management, we developed Buzzy^® to put instant pain management in YOUR hands.

A trial in adults for IV starts presented at the IASP in Scotland 2008 found that Buzzy^® significantly decreased pain. A trial in children needing IV starts in the emergency department has just been completed, with significantly decreased pain by child and parent report. Buzzy^® has been used for travel immunizations, fertility shots, and finger pricks, splinter removal, and flu injections with good results. While Buzzy^® will not be widely available until January 2009, contact us if you or your child have a particular problem with needle phobia. We will try to work with you, with prototypes, suggestions, or ways to mimic the effects of Buzzy^®.

Use the links to the left to learn more about Buzzy^®.