Excessive crying is known as infantile colic , and a new study suggests that acupuncture may reduce colicky crying when other treatments don't help. One group received minimal acupuncture: pricked at one acupuncture point for two to five seconds twice a week for two weeks. However, the magnitude of this reduction was greater in infants who received acupuncture compared with those who didn't, the researchers found. Don't call the acupuncturist quite yetWhether acupuncture can be an effective approach for infantile colic has been the subject of an ongoing debate. To determine whether your baby has infantile colic, Landgren recommends keeping a daily diary of how often your baby cries.

Source: CNN January 16, 2017 23:34 UTC