A colic question (Infacol and Colief related)

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DS2 has made his grand entrance to the dreaded Colicworld .
He is on Colief to help with his digestion but yesterday seemed to have the hell of a lot of wind. Could the wind be brought on by the Colief? Could I use Infacol as well to see if it will reduce the wind?
He was screaming his head off for over an hour and a half last night and I am desperate to try all I can to ease his discomfort. Thank you.

NB: We tried the osteopath and despite great success with DS1, did not work for this one.

Hi there.
DD had awful colic for around 10 weeks. Tried infacol and colief and tbh neither worked. How about gripe water for the wind? Does he have reflux at all? I found ranitidine helped a little bit. DD continued to cry for hours most nights regardless though. Probably not what you wanted to hear.p

I found taking her out in the pram in the evening stopped too much screaming. What about a sling to hold him upright in after feeds? Keeping him upright for at least 20 mins after each feed should help a bit. I also tried cranial osteopathy. Did nothing for her. I also bought an Amby hammock and rocked her in that during the screaming, which calmed her down.

Unfortunately in my experience, the only thing to improve things dramatically was time. It got better buy 10 weeks and disappeared by around 14 weeks completely.

We though he might have reflux but Gaviscon made no difference and the screaming/unsettleness only takes place in the evening anyway, so that's why we think it's colic.

Oh dear, we had 3.5 months of this. It seemed that gripe water worked better than colief or infacol. He would start at 10pm - you could set your watch by him. I would go back downstairs and try to do a puzzle or something till LO calms down. I stayed in bedroom and it startde feeling like a cell sometimes. Did stop after 3m though. Have been told that boiling cardimaum seeds and giving some of the water is good or chamomille tea - just a spoonful - they are old remedies but grandma's swear by them.

Have you tried baby massage? For DS it worked better than infacol whereas colief didn't work at all.
I do the I love you and go clockwise on his stomach twice or three times a day then lift his legs up-the effect is instant!

Gaviscon made no difference to DD either. I would definitely give gripe water a go. Colief is expensive and doesn't really work ime. Its really tough. I remember it well. I used to wander around.a.shopping genre for a couple of hours.in the evening to avoid the screaming. Not really an option with another child though.

I was also told to try doing bicycle peddling motions with her legs to relieve wind too. Didn't work for mine, but may for you.

Yep remember this well, my DS had it all day not just night attacks. Tried gaviscon ( we thought maybe silent reflux), infacol, gripe water, colief (pricey about a tenner a bottle I think), dummy and none of these worked. We would rock him to sleep in an upright position and we used to prop his moses basket up at the back to keep him upright whilst he slept. I used to let him sleep on his tummy during the day as that was the only way he used to settle.

Nobhead, for silent reflux Gaviscon doesn't always work. DS has it quite badly and it made no difference whatsoever to him. Now that he's on Losec and Carobel he's perfectly happy.

Infacol and colief didn't work for my dc either. Try cow and gate "comfort" milk ( sell it at asda/tesco) works a treat

We had DD on colief then changed to aptamil comfort milk for colic and cobstipation which worked a treat. Lots of smelly wind and runny poo but she was much more comfortable.

My Child was very emotional from birth to around 7-8 months he never wanted to be put down and in turn crawled late and were still waiting for him to walk, I really believe this was due to his milk as soon as i changed his milk i had a different child but before that i tried gripe water and infacol non of which had an effect if your bottle feeding i can advise you enough to change milk to colic and constipation or just change the brand