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.

pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/5/925, although not that much research so who knows what may happen in the future.

I stand by my point on Infacol though I can't understand how they can sell it. I spend so much time nodding and smiling when people tell me how well it works, they might as well have bought some homeopathic drops though perhaps the Infacol users are the type to buy homeopathic teething gel.

Sorry, I can't believe this has turned into a debate on if teething pain is real.

How have you all skipped over the much more important question of how much for the magic anti-tiger stone?

There's no way teething hurts as much as tiger attack surely!

I bought Infacol out of desperation. What a fucking waste of money that was. See also gripe water and colief.

Think up all what Rommell? Don't understand your question. I just changed the argument you gave about teething to another painful condition. Except I haven't experienced corneal ulcers so it makes marginally more sense I wouldn't believe they hurt than teething pain which I have. Or were you talking about something else. Incidentally I don't think it takes much empathy to imagine sharp bone cutting through flesh to cause pain...

By the way, I'm going to bed now so if I don't reply to your next intellectually incisive comment it isn't because you have converted me to your bonkers theory, just that I'm asleep. If you believe in that.

I was referring to this, cardibach:

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

whereby you and OddThomas displayed your amazing and capacious empathy to make cheap cracks about a time when I was laid in bed in agony in a darkened room with a scarf tied around my head listening to radio 4, whimpering and terrified that I would lose the sight of one eye. Had I known that my pain and terror would allow you to make jokes at my expense some years later in order to prove a point about teething and also to demonstrate how full of the milk of human kindness you are, I would have said then, as I can cheerfully say now, that it was all worth it.

You're something special. No, really you are.

You are wrong because placebo is proven to be effective in reducing symptoms even among animals.

I'm a vet. I've never seen evidence of this. The placebo effect is effective in altering a human owner / observer's perception of pain. Assessing pain levels in animals is notoriously difficult as it depends so much on the observer. IMO using homeopathic remedies on a treatable, painful condition in animals is completely unethical. I have no objection to owners who want to use it alongside conventional treatment, but don't believe it does anything except make the owner feel better.

OP I totally agree with you. Poor babies.

Double standards, Rommell don't you think? People on here have told you teething hurt them personally, but you wave it off. Yet when someone dares suggest (in jest, to show how ridiculous you are to think teething is a myth) that they 'believe' corneal ulcers are not painful it's somehow not funny anymore. Ah.

Rommell, my 2yo was in pain and was scared and bewildered as she doesn't know what teething is, all she knew was that it hurt. Did you not dismiss her pain by clinging to your, much disputed, belief that teething pain doesn't exist? Does that not belittle her pain? Where was your empathy when discussing infants/toddlers in obvious pain?

If you want empathy, display empathy.

Whatever. I was just astounded by the empathy. I'd been told it existed, and there it suddenly is.

Empathy isn't a real thing. It's all in your head

Evidently.

I don't remember making jokes about your daughter.

I thought the pain and temperature was cause by slight infection that is often bought on by teething, so not teething itself I thought everyone knew that surprised if people do not considering the parenting experts on here

anyway what does it matter if some people use homeopathic does everything have to be proved by science for it to work

I'm sure I heard recently that the concept of "teething" as a problem for babies doesn't exist in all cultures - Japan maybe?

Anyway, DS1 had no teething pain as far as I can tell - no amber or sugar powder, he was a generally placid and happy baby. If I'd believed in magic then I'd have probably been telling everyone how effective it is

I thought the pain and temperature was cause by slight infection that is often bought on by teething, so not teething itself

So pain brought on by teething, yes?

I couldn't agree more Mandatory.

Everyone's talking about teething, while I am hiding under my black and orange stripped blanket (I thought it a good idea to use camouflage as a temporary measure), quivering in fear, and wondering when my anti-tiger stones will arrive!

but the pain is not teething, and the diarrhoea is not from the teething itself

that is why not all babies get it and some get it worse than others

really you did not know this

Sorry! striped - not stripped!

I thought the pain and temperature was cause by slight infection that is often bought on by teething, so not teething itself

No,it was a saucepan,I'm sure of it. It had a wooden handle and everything

Here's a revolutionary idea, allow parents to make a decision for themselves as to what works for their child and let them get on with it. If they use something and it doesn't work they will change tack

I don't understand the dogmatic mindset of anyone insisting that others should comply with their point of view. I work in the NHS and have treated my children with conventional medicines, one of my closest friends is a homeopath and has treated hers with homeopathy. Most of the time both sets of children got better in similar times but on occasion, if they didn't, I have recommended conventional stuff to her which she has used and she has recommended homeopathic stuff to me which I have used. It's no big deal.

Oh I know, and I know that the runny bottom/toxic shit is caused by swallowing the excess saliva etc. I totally get that. However, at the end of the day, it is still caused by teething - even if it is an infection caused by teething producing the excess saliva, or whatever, it is still caused by the teething originally, no?

I'd never heard of an infection caused by teething Freudian, do you have a link to that?

I thought runny poo was just the result of dribbly babies swallowing more saliva. Hadn't heard teething caused a temperature tbh.

nhs, wiki, patient.co.uk

YABU to be cross about it.

I don't get angry about homeopathy, or god or any of the imaginary things which bring people comfort.

If it proves to be feckin useless people won't repeat the experience (except in the case of religion - the definition of 'faith' is believing in something that you know isn't real)

I can not understand the anger either

I know people who swear by it, seems to work for them. I used it for hayfever like symptom's I got in la from the terrible smog worked better than what was given to me at the pharmacy