| Fear of needles | |
|---|---|
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| A man being assuaged in order to receive an injection due to a fear of needles | |
| Treatment | Exposure-based therapies and alternate forms of clinical inoculation |
| Frequency | About 22% of adult population, 3.5–10% of general population may temporarily lose consciousness around the time of a needle procedure |
Fear of needles, known in medical literature as needle phobia, is the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.
It is occasionally referred to as aichmophobia, although this term may also refer to a more general fear of sharply pointed objects.