Infacol - friend or foe?

[MrsHD]

We had a bad night recently where DS couldn't bring up - or send down - wind and was obviously in lots of discomfort. Things blew through eventually, but I got some Infacol after that. I noticed after a few uses that DS was indeed bringing up more burps, but he also seemed to need to bring up wind more often and I wondered if Infacol was just driving his system to eject wind that otherwise would have just worked its way through without a problem and was making him uncomfy in the process.

Does that sound like gibberish or has anyone else noticed that too? DS didn't previously seem to need to bring wind up after every feed (mainly BF) but does with using Infacol.

Don't know if this helps, but I found if I only used Infacol for the night feeds (DS had exactly the same wind problem as you describe), it didn't help as much as if I used it at every feed. From this, I figured that actually he did need to bring up wind after every feed, but if he didn't bring it up after the day times, it kind of stored up in his system till he was relaxed and having a long sleep, and it would try to work its way through, with lots of discomfort.

No idea if that's true, but I can't see how bringing up more wind could be a bad thing, even if the wind would have worked its way through without a problem, iykwim?

infacol didnt do any thing for my dd so we swiched to dentinox colic relif drops

Oh, and we also found gripe water improved things. Not sure when you can use it from - a month? says it on the bottle.

I have to say I'm not a big fan of Infacol - I really don't like all the artificial flavourings that they put in it. Do they really need to be in something that you just dropper into a baby's mouth? You may have already tried this but my DH used to let DS lie across his arm and hold his head in his hand and just bump him up and down a bit - always seemed to work for even the most uncomfortable wind...think it may have something to do with the arm massaging the tummy. Also, if you lean the baby to the left when you're winding it helps the wind to come up - works on adults too!

This is a systematic review that showed no benefit for simethocone (active ingredient of infacol). Other papers show it is no better than placebo at soothing baby's apparent discomfort.

Prob worth trying as there is no reason to think it causes harm.

sorry, simethicone.

tiktok that's interesting - I sometimes wondered whether the reason that infacol and gripe water 'worked' was because I would be more focused on winding, so would wind him for a good few minutes after each feed, and as I was more confident something would come up, I continued until it did.