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.

[Oddthomas]

DD is 2.7yo and about a month ago was having a right grizzle and whinge. Every time someone so much as looked at her funny she cried her eyes out, that horrid high pitched whiny cry they do when they're not right. She had a bright pink left cheek, she was warm to the touch, wouldn't eat. I asked her "tell mummy what's wrong" and she told me "hurts". So I asked "hurts where?". She put her fingers in her mouth then put them on the side of her jaw, in her mouth, then on her jaw "hurts here mummy". So I stuck a finger in her mouth, had a feel, and sure enough her bottom left gum was swollen and hard. Two days later (during which her symptoms continued, I gave her Calpol and she whined "hurts" whenever it wore off) and the points of her back tooth were through. Symptoms stopped, the whines of "hurts" stopped, and she was her usual happy self.

[Shockers]

Teething hurts babies.

I say this as a foster mum of lots of babies ( plus one of my own).
The crying in pain, the red cheeks, the nappy rash... it all happened at the same time as they were teething. There were different degrees of those symptoms, depending on the child, but the symptoms were very consistent.

[Rommell]

I mean, that if you're thinking there's a correlation between teeth appearing/pain/calpol, then you will remember the times when that correlation seemed to be at play.

[mercibucket]

up until the 19th century it was believed teething could cause death

i am learning lots tonight!

[Oddthomas]

the big fuss made by women about childbirth pain, which is just like going for a big poo

:o :o :o

DH once asked me what childbirth feels like. I invited him to shove a glass-studded watermelon up his arse and then spend several hours slowly pushing it back out. I even offered brownie points if he could do it without tearing himself a new one.

[backwardpossom]

But teething pain is a myth Oddthomas isn't it?

[perfectstorm]

Tim Minchin on this subject -

[Oddthomas]

A total myth backward which is why, when DD was crying and whining "hurts" while showing me her gums and jaw, I gave her a sharp shake and told her to man the fuck up "don't you know it's all in your head?!" I told her. She agreed she was making the whole thing up and was just swinging the lead so that I'd give her some of that oh-so-addictive Calpol, she loves it so, I believe it's street name is Pink Pony. Then we laughed and laughed and no more was said about fictional teething pain.

True story.

[perfectstorm]

I hope that man is condemned to give birth to eternity in the afterlife. (I gave birth a couple of months ago. Memories are fresh.)

[ouryve]

I remember canines, pre-molars and molars all hurting as they broke through. DS1 took to chewing everything in sight when he was teething, hence the frozen sock experiment. DS2 has had a gap where his front upper incisors were for the past 2 months and an adult tooth has finally broken through, today, after a week of rubbing it and whinging about it. DS1 complains similarly about teeth breaking through in a healed over gap.

I think teething might hurt, even if it's for a short while. No conspiracy involved.

[Rommell]

Actually, a corneal ulcer is a very painful thing.

Cutting a tooth? Meh. Jury's out.

[backwardpossom]

Haha!

[cardibach]

What jury, Rommell? WHy is your belief more compelling than that of, oh, almost everyone else who is sane

[cardibach]

COrneal ulcers, ROmmell? I believe the pain is related to an unrelated virus you have contracted. True.

[sandberry]

People regularly use placebos for babies, look at the sales of infacol, it works as well as water, entirely placebo effect

People give babies drugs like Omeprazole for reflux which we know are ineffective. At least a bit of alcohol and water with some sweetener is probably pretty harmless.

[Oddthomas]

Yes, everyone knows the cure for corneal pain is water but special molecule water. The pain is entirely in your mind. Look at people who blink. They don't experience pain therefore I conclude that corneal ulcers are no more painful than blinking.

[mercibucket]

extensive googling tells me you are all right (apart from that man! he didnt actually seem to write about corneal ulcers, but it was 1905 )

i cant open most of the links on my phone but it seems in almost all cases, fever/diarrhoea is not due to teething, but an illness (rommell's point) but children do show signs of gum pain (everyone elses point)

[backwardpossom]

Omeprazole is ineffective? DH might argue with you on that, considering if he forgets to take his in the morning, he's doubled over in pain by about lunchtime.

[Shockers]

Oh... I didn't use Calpol either, so that theory doesn't work .

I used cold cucumber and a homeopathic nappy rash cream! ( which incidentally cleared up bums wonderfully)

[Rommell]

Did you think that up all by yourself, cardibach? I wish I could be more like you, what with all your empathy and all that.

[hazeyjane]

Can you link to something that says about omeprazole being ineffective, please?

[sandberry]

Omeprazole is ineffective for babies but not for adults apparently

[backwardpossom]

Oh, sorry I didn't realise you meant only in babies. Though I have never heard of it being ineffective for babies either!

[hazeyjane]

Babies up until what age? I am curious because we have tried omeprazole/lansoprazole in several forms as it is recommended as the most effective med for ds, but he is unable to take it, so we use ranitidine and domperidon instead. If there is something that says that it is ineffective I'd print it off to show them.

[NeedsAsockamnesty]

I dropped a saucepan on my foot earlier fucking hell it hurt,

It was a le creuset (orange none of that aqua rubbish in my house)