Teething - calpol/nurofen

[Grumpus21]

5month old DS got his bottom two teeth last month, now I can see the outline of the top two. He is really suffering bless him and teething gel can only do so much.

My question is, how long do you carry on with calpol/nurofen for? I know it says on the box four days, but it's going to take longer than that for them to come through. Have been giving calpol twice a day (morning and just before bedtime) to keep it at bay, but is it okay to carry on or switch to nurofen after four days? It doesn't seem like they are close to cutting through the gum yet.

Until today he has been happy to take his milk but he is starting to struggle with it like last time.

If I need to give him a break from it, how long for do you think?

TIA.

Morning calpol is paracetamol so is relatively side effect free and harmless as long as you keep to the recommend doses so I wouldn't worry too much if it is helping.
Neurofen is ibuprofen so therefore it does have potential side effects..despite being perfectly safe if u use the dosage correctly, but ideally you wouldn't want to be using this regularly, long term.
Ibuprofen and it's anti-inflammatory action tends to be most effective with teething pain. Bedtime would be good time to use this as it gives you up to 6 hours pain relief and keep your paracetamol for day time.
Through really bad periods you can alternate between the 2 and get 24hours coverage...but again this would be advisable for a short period of time, say a couple of days.
The instructions on the bottle say to not use for more than 3 days because arguably if symptoms are unresolved after 3 days then baby should really be seen by a medical professional rather than the medication is doing any harm? If that makes sense?! It's to prevent serious illness going untreated if symptoms are masked.
If you are happy your baby is 'just' teething then it's nothing to worry about

Thank you for replying, yes that does make sense I'll carry on with calpol then and save the ibuprofen for when it gets really bad! luckily it doesn't seem to be bothering him once he's asleep at the moment (touch wood!).

Hopefully they make an appearance soon - seems as though we have a good couple of weeks then there's either another set of jabs, a leap or more teeth!

lol exactly! If it's not one thing it's another!