{"id":1490,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/09\/sick-children-get-better-faster-when-visited-by-hospital-clowns\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","slug":"sick-children-get-better-faster-when-visited-by-hospital-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/sick-children-get-better-faster-when-visited-by-hospital-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick children get better faster when visited by hospital clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-09 14:10:38<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Clowns can help children recover from illness.<BR><br \/>\nScientists have found that youngsters seriously unwell in hospital with pneumonia got better faster when they were visited by a face-painted entertainer.<BR><br \/>\nClown visits also cut the amount of time that the children needed to be on intravenous antibiotics during their illness.<BR><br \/>\nThe team followed 51 kids between the ages of two and 18 who had been hospitalised with pneumonia and separated them into groups &#8211; one of whom got visits from a clown and another that didn&#8217;t.<BR><br \/>\nExperts found that the group who were visited by a medical clown had a shorter hospital stay &#8211; an average of 43.5 hours compared to 70 hours for the other children &#8211; and think that a visit from an entertainer alleviates stress and anxiety in poorly youngsters.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Karin Yaacoby-Bianu, of the Carmel Medical Centre in Israel, said: &#8220;Laughter and humour may have direct physiological benefits by lowering respiratory and heart rates, reducing air trapping, modulating hormones and enhancing the immune function.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-09 14:10:38 Clowns can help children recover from illness. Scientists have found that youngsters seriously unwell in hospital with pneumonia got better faster when they were visited by a face-painted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}