Thumb-sucking; has anyone used a Thumbguard?

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Has anyone used one of these?

Not personly, but my SIL used one last year with her 7 year old.

They used it for about month during the summer holidays. DN hasn't sucked her thumb since, but have to say that it was quite expensive i seem to remember SIL saying that it was about £50.

"fun to wear as possible"

Got to love marketers haven't you?

god thats awful

Ds1 stopped by himself - daytimes at nearly 4yo, nights just this year at 6yo. But it wasn't affecting his jaw too much, and he has the emotional and intellectual maturity to do it by choice. OTOH 4yo dd's jaw is aterrible mess from thumbsucking - she has no bite at all. I think it's urgent for her to stop ASAP.

finger trouble mild? roffle

Every dentist we've ever seen has told dd and us that she must stop. None of them had actually seen her sucking before saying this, they could tell she sucks her thumb from teh shape of her jaw. And the distortion is getting worse, unlike with ds1 where his jaw was straightening itself out despite the finger-sucking.

If it was just teh teeth then I wouldn't be worried. So we'll pay for orthodontic treatment in her teens. Survivable. But I'm really getting worried about her jaw.

Squeakybub, Ds1's fingers did get lumpy-looking, but within a month or 6w of stopping they had returned to normal. The nails still look slightly different, but are improving.

We've had some success with plasters - DS1 (5.5) still sucks at night, but has mostly stopped in the day. But he wanted to stop, we used the plasters to help him stop.

I don't think he sucks all night, anyway, so I'm not that bothered about that end. It's just the daytime I was struggling with.

Oh, and just stopping daytime sucking has made DS1's thumb look more normal. I don't think his teeth are damaged, I'll have to have a peer at them.

Ds1 tried it (voluntarily - it was his idea) but asked to stop after a couple of days because he found it so upsetting. What bothered him was not the fact that it stopped him from sucking his fingers but that the taste lingered on his lips and he couldn't get rid of it so couldn't relax.

Dd2 (age 11 and a mostly reformed thumb sucker) looked at this and said 'We children have ways. We'd just suck the other thumb instead.'

I'm 40 and still suck my thumb.
That contrapition is barbaric.

Ok, leaving myself wide open for ridicule here but...

I still suck my thumb, am 27, have 2 kids and a hubby.
(I feel like im in one of those support groups-go easy on me)
I did give up in my early 20s but went back to it after a year or so.

I have an overbite and my profile is odd, sort of chin into neck type afair. I went to the dentist and he said that the thumb sucking had nothing to do with it, I had a tongue thurust problem which could not be resolved, also my bottom jaw was too far back (from birth) and would need breaking and resetting to fix.-I didnt go that route, im fine how I am.

Ive never had a filling and my dentist told me it was because of thumb sucking-all that extra saliva around fighting off plaque.
My ds thumb sucks and I have no intention of stopping him, if anyone else picks up on it then I pick up on them-and so does my ds. Thumb sucking is a peacful habit, gentle and comforting and needent be an issue.

I'm about to spend £4000 on Orthotropic work to sort DS1's (8) teeth/jaw problems caused by mainly thumbsucking and also sitting with his mouth open in a gormless fashion.

I did start another thread about this last week. After DS1's consultation, the dentist looked at me ans said "you used to suck your thumb didn't you?". He'd not looked in my mouth, my teeth are pretty straight, there's nothing obvious to me that I'd sucked my thumb (til about 8 I guess) and he was absolutely right.

Yes, tried it, no it didn't work. Have just done speech therapy for lisp and are finishing up soon with orthodontist! I think sucking technique is partly to blame.

Stleger, do you have any idea why it didn't work?

snap, twentypence. Hollow laugh at the 'fun' bit. Although more 'fun' than cutting the thumb off, I suppose.

Not read all posts but that looks horrible.