Teething interfering with BF

[Jacanne]

My dd2 seems to be teething very badly at the moment - she's screaming almost constantly - particularly when anything goes near her mouth. She's not eating much or drinking much. I'm keeping her does with Nurofen but it doesn't seem to be doing much. Now she has started to refuse to BF - won't even try (though she's quite happy to suck her thumb)- I just tried a sleepy feed and she became quite hysterical when I offered.

She's 17 months - will my supply be okay if she doesn't feed for a couple of days or should I start expressing. Has anyone else child reacted to teething in such a way - if so how long does it last. I'm feeling a bit desperate as I'm not ready to wean and DD1 did a similar thing at about 18 months when she had a mouth ulcer and ended up self-weaning.

DS1 always had horrible problems when teething - largely temperature-related though, so not quite the same.

Have you tried giving her teething gel before she feeds? Or something cold to bite on?

My ds has gone through very similar just recently. We massaged teething gel into gums before feed and also (when he would let me) massaged his jaw to ease the pain.
Apart from that just keep offering is what I did, when teeth come through and he didn't want feed he could bite me!!!

Thank you for the suggestions - we have tried the teething gel and nurofen before feeding - it all seems to be a little better now and she actually fed 4 times today - although a little bit tentatively. She is not sleeping well and keeps crying out - when I go up to her she is swallowing excessively - would that be all the extra drool?