To think that Infacol/gripe water/colic etc....

[CoralRose]

....is a load of old tosh?

If I am, please enlighten me.

colic or colief?

No YANBU - both are shit.

I hear it can work..never used it myself so from experience I'm not too sure. I'd give them a go if the need arose but I don't think colic is a load of old tosh. Babies can suffer from it quite badly.

My mum swore by gripe water for me. I have even taken it as an adult when I had rotten indigestion and trapped wind in stomach, and it worked.

Gripe water worked for my DS1.
He'd shut right up after a small spoonful. Only had it once or twice and I'm guessing the ensuing silence was largely due to the taste of something other than BM, but either way, he was settled.

Infacol was great for dd, don't think they understand placebos at a few weeks old do they?

Has got dill and fennel in it, both of which are good natural remedices for digestive ailments, so who knows!

Gripe water now IS a load of tosh. It doesn't work, and hasn't since they stopped putting alcohol in it about 10 years ago. When I had my DD 13 years ago, it was the mutts nuts for sorting out colic. When I used it for DS1 four years later, it was as much use as flavoured water. When I queried it with the pharmacist, I was told it was because they were no longer allowed to put alcohol in it.

Shows how much things have changed...

Colic, however is NOT a load of old tosh. DD screamed for 6 hours every evening until she was 7.5mo. Thankfully DS1 only had colic for about 10 weeks, and neither DS2 nor DS3 have suffered from it at all.

But by GOD do I remember what DD was like. Despite the 13 years that have passed since then! Colic IS real. However, the current treatments for it are bolleaux.

What exactly do they even have in them. I'm confused by colic too, it's just wind, yes?

The only thing I found helped DS with colic was comfort formula and Dr Browns bottles.

Not 100% sure what colic is - seems to be a catch all description that even her GP used. But my DD had silent reflux and Infant Gaviscon significanty eased her pain and therefore her uncontrollable crying, where Infacol and gripe water failed.

Nobody really knows what colic is. Excess gas? Wind? Maybe nothing to do with digestion?

What's your situation OP? What do you need help with?

I don't mean to offend anyone btw, I'm just generally curious. I've never really known what it is

Do you have a baby who cries alot?

I had Colic as a 15 year old (plaster cast round torso) and I was hospitalised.

It's just everytime I mention that Ds2, had a bad night/is a bit grizzly/looked at me funny I get the 'must be colic, have you tried....'

Hunty as I said, modern gripe water, for whatever reason, worked for my DS1. It shocked even me

I found nothing worked apart from Dentinox. Fab stuff. DD2 had awful colic and we tried everything. Infacol only made her slightly orange scented.

But surely some babies just cry mote than others, why the need for a label, especially one with such a broad range of symptoms that don't really amount to anything anyway really

Might not be making sense, bad night last night, but I feel this was just down to me owning a young baby

Oh, no, colic has a very particular 'cry' that starts at about 6pm EVERY FUCKING EVENING and goes on for hours inconsolably. If you have got a baby with colic - you KNOW!!

To be fair, though, I would hazard a huge, huge guess, that if DD was a baby today, rather than 13 years ago, she would have been diagnosed with silent reflux and given infant gaviscon, rather than having been dxd with colic.

Theres crying, then the screaming and pulling up of knees and the relief from passing wind.

Have you never had trapped wind? It's agony.

Infacol worked well for DS2 (massive belches after feeds rather than hours of wind). It hadn't made any difference at all with DS1 so I was quite prepared for it doing nothing, but was pleasantly surprised.

What's silent reflux?

And if is it possible to have 'a little bit' of colic, or does it have to be the whole hog to deserve the title?

chicletteeth - Maybe it was the placebo effect? Maybe it genuinely did work for your dc? All I know is that it worked for DD when it still had the booze in, and did nothing for DS1 who was born after they stopped putting alcohol in it.

So tonks, is that not just wind, or trapped wind? Why dies it need to be called something else? All babies get wind, I should imagine all of them at some point get it trapped?