Red cheeks, horrendous dribbling, PLEASE tell me a tooth appears after only a short time of this?!?

[emeraldgirl1]

DD (4.5 months) has had generalised teething symptoms for several weeks now but nothing like this.

For the past two or three days she has very pink cheeks and the dribbling is getting ridiculous, had no idea that much dribble could come out of one little baby!!

Not a joke though as the poor thing is in real pain with it :( I hate having to watch her and not be able to take away the pain :(

Please tell me this really is close to getting the actual tooth now?! I know it will happen again and again but I would just love her to have a result and a bit of respite, however temporary.

Calpol is taking the edge off a bit, bonjela and granules/ camilia drops are no use at mo. We are wary of calprofen as the one and only time we gave it she had a horrendous tummy upset afterwards, we do t kne if it was caused by the ibuprofen but still wary of risking it.

Forgot to add, the poor thing is shoving everything she possibly can into her mouth and chewing desperately which she hasn't done before...

Yes, I also hate to be the bearer of bad news but mine both suffered terribly for weeks and weeks and no tooth appeared. It did get worse just before it came through but it seems that the actual moving in the gums causes a lot of pain, not just the pushing through.

Ibuprofen works a lot better than Calpol for teething as it works on the inflammation too. I think you can get baby version from 3 months.

Fingers crossed it'll break through soon, poor little thing.

Sorry, missed your note re. ibuprofen, have you tried on a full tummy?

Also maybe try a different brand of ibuprofen suspension - it could be the colourant or sweetener that doesn't agree with your dd? IME it works much better than calpol for teething though sometimes we even had to double them up and dose with both when it was really bad.

Thanks everyone!!
No we were idiots and didn't do the calprofen on a full tummy last time which we did think may well have caused the tummy upset.
In all honesty I think we may need to risk trying it again (on a full tummy this time!) as she is in such a state :(
Oh dear, bad news about the speed of this teething malarkey, then...

Teething is hell on earth - just try everything (not all at once, obvs!) and you might find something that eases it up a bit. I had DD in an amber necklace for about a year, just in case. The jury's still out as to its effectiveness, because how can you really tell?, but I just had to do everything I could.

Another yes to Ibuprofen being much more effective.

I remember poor DD going through a soaking wet bib an hour at her dribbliest worst.

Good luck!

Get her a toothbrush to chew on, it's really easy for a baby to hold. You can put a smidge of gel on it too, much easier than trying to smear it on with a finger.

You could try ambesol liquid (not gel) we've been up since four with suspected teething although no red cheeks or dribble ds is 8 months and toothless.

Both of mine teethed for months on end without a break. Definitely try the ibuprofen again, it's way more effective. Chill some chewy toys for her. I wouldn't recommend a toothbrush, unless it's one of those baby ones with the big chunky handle; my two were too inclined to push long skinny things down their throats and gag on them.