Teething like I've never seen before

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This is my second DS, first one was an absolute nightmare when teething (about 20 times worse than anyone else's child I knew) My second DS is 10 months old and has taken teething to a new level. He has just cut his front two teeth so we had about three days of having a happy little boy and then at the weekend he started again with a vengeance. He was awake for about 4 hours last night which doesn't really bother me but he's so tired, won't eat a thing and is in so much pain. Nursery have phoned again to say he's not coping but I work full time and can't take off any more time. The usual paracetamol and nurofen are not even touching his pain. Any advice / remedies ?

Ashton and parsons teething powders have done wonders for us - you can get them in Boots.

bonjela, ashton and parsons and regular doses of neurofen and calpol and i gave my ds pureed food no lumps at all while worst was going on as it was hurting his gums to much and always bonjela'd his gums around 20 mins before eating seemed to do the trick he didntr eat as much but did eat

also a good teething ring that he can really knaw on

The poor little love. My ds was quite bad too. I used calpol and nurofen for a few days, also found dentinox teething gel helped more than bongela seemed too and I think you can apply it more often, also tried powers but we didn't get along with them.
Ds completely went off his food. I used to cut up some carrot into chip sized sticks and put them in the freezer so ds had something hard and cold to knaw on.

celery from the fridge too, it has a natural anaesthetic effect. although for an unnatural one i always swore by boots own brand teething gel which has twice as much of the painkilling ingredient than calgel etc.

Agree re Teething Powder, but found the Ashton brand hopelessly hard to get into DS's mouth. The Teetha brand, on the other hand, is soooo much easier.

DS is a HORRIFIC teether, have tried all the gels/ powders etc with very limited success! Calgel or anbesol take the edge off slightly in the day but when he's bad or at night the only thing that helps is alternating calpol and nurofen (ie calpol then nurofen 2 hrs later and calpol again 2 hours after that). We also co-sleep when he's bad cos he sleeps better like that.

On a more positive note, DS is not as bad now he's older and can take his mind off things by playing and running about and putting things in his mouth to chew!

You have my sympathies, it's horrible to see them in pain and knackering for you too.

x

Have tried the powders and they work great when he's a normal teething baby but he gets really bad and the powders, nurofen, calpol and teething gel do absolutely nothing to relieve it.

Oh and going for a ride in his buggy seemed to take his mind off the pain and he often went to sleep in there.

DD was like this - I'm expecting her 2nd set of molars to come through soon and then I can finally relax! I put chunks of apple and pear in the fridge and freeze bananas. Because DD refused most food if she couldn't sleep at night I'd put on the night garden after some calpol and we'd share some natural yoghurt - think once the pain wasn't so bad it was quiet soothing for her and at elast she was having soemthing to eat. Also ice cold ellas kitchen purees were good.
hope he gets better soon and you get more sleep.