• "Went from screaming and held down to 'I never felt that'.  Totally recommend."  -Diane H.
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• Proven relief ages 4+

Lifelong fear of needles develops in childhood.  To combat fear and pain, press Buzzy's^® natural pain relief of icy numbing and tingly vibration to block transmission of sharp pain on contact. In the same way that rubbing a bumped elbow helps stop the hurt, or cool running water soothes a burn, Buzzy^®dulls sharp pain.  Patients and parents care the most about the effects of pain, but until now there has been no effective personal pain control.  If nurses and doctors get too busy to wait for numbing creams or don't use needle pain control, Buzzy provides proven relief for IV pain.   For vaccines, for blood draws, for everyone from newly diagnosed diabetic children to grandparents needing dialysis, the medical community has a history of expecting people to just get used to needle pain.  Not anymore.

For shots, for bee stings, for boo-boos, for injected medicines or immunization pain… we developed Buzzy^® to put instant pain management in YOUR hands.

The vibrating bee Buzzy and Bee-Stractors distraction cards are used in hospitals around the world, and now can be used at home - together, they're the first major breakthrough in home first aid in 50 years.

Being a parent means always being on call.  Whether it's splinters, stings, or scrapes, if blood or pain is involved kids zoom straight to us.  Buzzy and Bee-Stractors let you be the hero.  How awesome to handle "Do I have to get a shot?" with "if you do, I've got something that will help!"

How to use Buzzy:

Children’s Hospitals use Buzzy,  topical anesthetics, and distraction tools to cut pain by half! Around the home, keep ice wings in the freezer, and bring out Buzzy to make cleaning scrapes less ow-y, to make mosquito bites not itch, or to just let a child switch on and off to stimulate sensations in an area that DOESN'T hurt.

Place Buzzy "between the brain and the pain" for  common problems such as scrapes, bee-stings, or splinters.  When you or another parent or child helps distract using Bee-Stractors to pull attention away, you're using evidence-based help just like top children's Emergency rooms.

Check out the links for instructional videos and specific instructions - here's one for bee stings to get you started.

Bee Stings

Bee Stings:  honey bees leave stingers, but wasps, hornets and yellow jackets don’t.  If you don’t see a stinger, skip straight to the next paragraph: they aren’t subtle if they’re there.  If you DO see the stinger, the current recommendation is just to get it out ASAP.  The little venom sac will be releasing venom as long as the stinger is in, so to reduce the reaction it’s better to be fast than finicky.  Sure, you could scrape or use tweezers, but fingers work fine and are close at hand, so to speak.

Systemic reactions (wheezing, lip swelling, vomiting, hives) are beyond this tip guide: give 0.5mg/pound of benadryl and call or go to the doctor.  Even non-allergic kids, however, get a reaction about 4-10x the what they would get from a mosquito:  red, swelling, pain then after an hour or so itching.

Use ibuprofen and ice for pain relief.  While the acute pain is going on, ice directly on the site may be too intense.  Ice with or without vibration upstream “between the brain and the pain” may be more helpful then.  Once it starts itching, scratching will spread and worsen the reaction.  A vibrating toy over an ice pack will relieve the itch without spreading the reaction.

To get them past those first painful few minutes, having an I spy book or Bee-Stractor distraction cards can help.  “Hold on this ice pack, and when you find five things I’ll go get you a popsicle!”