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

[CoralRose]

....is a load of old tosh?

If I am, please enlighten me.

"Oh the man at my office has got flu. Man flu."
No. He's a bit of a cold and a bit of a sniffle.
Very few people in the UK have ever had Flu. If they had, they would know how truely awful it is.
First sign of a sniffle=flu.
same with colic. People who demean it by implying thta every child who gives a bit of a cry, has colic, and not helping the cause.

I think that Colief really works though ....

I said the remedies are tosh

Oblomov - precisely!

I've no doubt it must be horrendous, but I think Oblomov explains why I feel the way I do.

You just seem to be pointlessly spoiling for a fight.

Your child obviously doesn't have colic. Lucky you. So stand up for yourself and just, erm, don't give them something for something they don't have.

I don't really get why you're being so defensive about it. My child has never had proper teething pain, but I don't think teething remedies are "tosh" - they are just something that, luckily, I haven't had to use.

Gripe water was an absolute God-send with DS1. The tiniest spoonful produced the hughest burp, and stopped him crying/pulling his legs up in pain!

If you have never experienced the day in, day out, in your face, screaming and projectile vomiting then you dont know what you missed.

DD1 is 16 now and DH and I still havent forgotten.

I'm not spoiling for a fight

I know a lot more about colic now than I did before starting this thread, so not pointless neither

ds still gets colic, he is 2 and half, he wakes up crying in the night almost every night and he passes wind alot then gets back off to sleep, as a newborn he cried on and off every hour, he also fed 1oz every hour. i can safely say colic is not "tosh"

he also had significant reflux till around 12months, we tried everything, infant gaviscon, ranitidine,colief, dentinox, infacol, gripe water, comfort milks every bottle/teat going. best thing was the comfort milk

It's real and it's not just normal levels of crying. Of my 3 children the first was a bit colicky, cried same time every evening, soothed him and eventually settled him, number 2 was textbook perfect, slept all night from day one (the kind of baby no-one believes exists), number 3 was torturous! He cried literally every waking hour from he was born, I am not exaggerating, I have no waking photos of him after the hospital until he got his first relief in the form of medication. If he wasn't sleeping or feeding he was crying. MIL, a neo-natal nurse, couldn't even cope with him. I was at breaking point when he was prescribed infant Gaviscon. I can honestly say it changed his (and my) life overnight. I attempted to wean him off a few times snd we went dtraight back to square 1. I assume it was reflux he had rather than colic but I swear by it and he's still on it at 8 months (he throws up quite a lot if I forget). Btw all 3 were breastfed. Anyone who needs it, ignore the naysayers and go for it.

gripe water not so effective with dd but works wonders for ds

Our DD was a proper colicky baby, and generally miserable for the first five months of her life. Infacol helped a bit - afaik it's the only one with any evidence behind its active ingredient.

I read recently about colic being an early manifestation of migraine, which I can believe.

My son was actually ok in the evenings but it was non stop SCREAMING 1am-5am!! No break or stopping. The coilef, when used properly worked well for him but you have to be specific about the milk warmth when u put it in. (Realised the hard way!) It only worked for a few weeks though then he started screaming every evening. In the end, as someone above has mentioned....comfort reflux milk and Dr Brown bottles helped a lot. Infacol seemed to make him very upset for some reason. So maybe it was reflux not colic or he had both?? Guess will never know xx

I used to roll ds on to his belly and massage his back and I think the pressure of having his weight on his tummy made him burp or fart or whatever.

We used infacol for 6months with dd.. took a week to kick in then helped her enormously. ..she was very windy as a baby and used to give agonised screams if she hadn't let a burp out. I used to wind her for hours after a feed and she would scream as soon as laid down if there was still wind in there. Infacol consolidates the little bubbles apparently.

I think people just wantvto help and say something thats colic usually happens 7n the evening and its a shrieking cry and they pull the legs up infacol was really good but cool boiled water was betterand doing a cycling motion worked, is your baby pulling its legs up does It seem in pain ,

I think people just wantvto help and say something thats colic usually happens 7n the evening and its a shrieking cry and they pull the legs up infacol was really good but cool boiled water was betterand doing a cycling motion worked, is your baby pulling its legs up does It seem in pain ,

DD seemed to enjoy the taste of Infacol, but I'm not convinced it had any effect. Gripe water on the other hand achieved INSTANT and dramatic results...

I breastfeed and although my GP knows this, she still prescribed Coleif, which has to be added to each feed and mixed in. I explained that I couldn't do this as I breastfeed, and her advice as she ushered us out of the door was that I 'just express every feed'

Absolutely nothing helped with my DD1. Once the clock hit 5:30pm she would scream the place down until midnight. We tried absolutely everything. Infacol, gripe water, vacuums and hair dryers. The only thing that worked was her hitting 3 months of age then it vanished.

I am so grateful my other two never suffered colic. It is awful, awful, awful

Colic is very real and very heartbreaking to watch. Gripe water worked a little for us but nothing cured it. There will someday be a very rich person who can create a colic relief that works instantly even for the worst cases of colic.

I would have taken every bit of pain from my dd for the hours she was suffering. I don't think I will ever be able to explain the noise dd would make.

Gripe wate worked for DD who would otherwise get very painful gas.

Infacol was amazing for dd1. She screamed every night from 7pm til 7am unless she had a boob in her mouth, no amount of cuddling, winding, walking around with her, etc soothed her at all. On day 5 of having NO sleep all night and only managing to catch naps during the day when someone else could take her off my hands (she was very contented during the day ) I was ready to try anything. A dropper of infacol before her feed that evening and she farted really loudly for a few minutes, then she slept for 4 hours straight! I felt so much better for being able to sleep for a few hours uninterrupted. Every time I tried her without it she screamed again overnight, so we carried on with it for a few months. I can't see how a placebo would make her fart like that.

Dd2 never had anything that could remotely be described as colic. So if I'd only had babies who were as settled and content as her I'd probably not believe in colic either.