To Consider Homeopathic Teething Gel Appalling?

[UncleT]

It's being advertised on the telly at the moment. It 'contains' 12c dilutions of herbs. Look up 12c and you'll rapidly find out that this means none of the substance remains in a sample. Other ingredients are water, ethanol, a sweetener and gelling and lubricant agents. There is nothing that will help with teething pain.

[Rommell]

If teething hurts, how come older children don't need calpol when their adult teeth come through?

Wisdom teeth can be felt because of the pressure from other existing teeth - they were designed to come through when those other existing teeth had been lost.

But I don't think there is an conclusive evidence that babies feel pain when teething, given that older children certainly don't.

[backwardpossom]

Really? Razor sharp teeth cutting through flesh doesn't hurt. If you say so Rommell

FWIW my wisdom teeth coming in required real drugs, not homeopathic woo. It was the gum that was painful where it was cutting. Fuck all to do with the other teeth.

[Oddthomas]

Adult teeth come through gums that have already been channeled out (for want of a better term) by the baby teeth, whereas the baby teeth are carving up solid gums. Plus the pained crying generally implies that yes, it does hurt.

[Oddthomas]

Same with mine backward, it was the swollen, hard gums that were hurting actually inside the gum not the other teeth.

[Rommell]

There is a lot of shit talked about teething. I have even heard people say that their baby 'teethed' for three months before his first tooth came through. Err, no.

The red cheeks are due to drooling, which is due to increased saliva, which also causes the dodgy nappies.

If you can find me a medical study that says teething exists, I might change my mind. But probably not.

[cardibach]

Your older children didn't feel pain when their teeth came through? Wow.

[cardibach]

Jeez, Rommell. Have you no empathy? Your attitude is mindblowing.

[cardibach]

ANd I haven't heard anyone talk about teething lasting more than a couple of days before the first tooth appeared, fwiw.

[backwardpossom]

The drooling/extra saliva is a symptom of, er, TEETHING.

[Rommell]

Sorry, that should say 'painful teething exists' or something similar.

[Rommell]

I have never heard of an older child experiencing pain when their adult teeth come in, no, cardibach.

[bruffin]

My wisdoms really hurt, they came through perfectly normally no impaction as i had 4 teeth removed in my teens due to overcrowding.
My dd is 16 would cut 4 teeth at a time withoutbus noticing. She had an impacted adult too with no pain. It was removed which included cutting out bone and she came round from ga smiling, and was eating fish and chips a few hours later. I had stocked up on soft foods but she didnt need them. Ds on the other hand suffered with his teeth.

[mercibucket]

i remember my wisdom teeth hurting

and dd came to me just last week moaning on about her gums hurting. took me ages to twig she must have molars coming. so that hurt too. to be fair, she wasnt screaming in agony, neither was i, but then babies are like that with pain in general

[cardibach]

I've told you that as an adult my wisdom tooth (plenty of space, perfectly straight, all through in about days) coming through hurt. Why would you doubt me? And why would you think this would be different for babies/children, Rommell?

[cardibach]

That should say in about 3 days.

[Rommell]

^ANd I haven't heard anyone talk about teething lasting more than a couple of days before the first tooth appeared, fwiw.^

We appear to have met different people. Which is perhaps not so odd, given that we have different lives. I have heard loads of people blame the fact that their baby isn't sleeping through on 'teething', when in fact the reality is that lots of young babies just don't sleep through, and there probably is some kind of reason for it, but I would wager it is rarely if ever due to 'teething.

I don't see what this has to do with empathy or lack of it.

[Rommell]

Coldlightofday, presumably your baby was feeling pain from something, given that the calpol worked. Might not have been teething though. Could have been a sore tummy, a bit of earache from getting water into it in the bath or a million and one other things.

[mercibucket]

there are loads of articles on google scholar about teething!

[Rommell]

You probably noticed when it did, Coldlightofday, and not when it didn't.

Wtf is google scholar? Is it the same as The Lancet?

[ouryve]

It's probably less effective than a frozen wet sock - that was DS1's teething soother of choice. A lot cheaper, too, since we had a plentiful supply of outgrown socks.

[mercibucket]

google scholar is just a type of google but it only searches university level material eg journals and academic literature

there is a very funny letter by someone arguing much the same as you

'teething and corneal ulcers' might bring it up.

he compares it (surely it must be a he) to the big fuss made by women about childbirth pain, which is just like going for a big poo (i paraphrase). typical hysterical women moaning on about minor pain