Just wondered what peoples view is on this. My son is an awful teether, with each tooth being accompanied with blister inducing nappies, face rash, irruption haematoma on gums and a hacking cough/cold. We help ease his discomfort with the usual gels and powders, but frankly they don't even touch the edges of his pain, so we often have to resort to something more powerful like calpol or ibruprofen during nights otherwise we have hours of wakefulness and crying. Problem is he is also a bloody slow teether...he is cutting 2 molars currently and one has been coming for at least 3 weeks (still not fully out) and the other was partially out then disappeared under a big swelling/blister on his gum, before breaking through again... this one after 3 weeks is only out by one of the 4 points on the tooth! So we have probably medicated at least once each night for 3 weeks now. I try to alternate which medicine he has and only give at night when things are bad, but as I said this has been going on for 3 weeks now and the teeth are nowhere near done with causing him pain. I am having a real dilemma now as I can't just leave him in pain, but both medicines clearly state a max number of days use. Is this max number of days if you are using every 4-6hrs all day? What would you do?
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