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I don't believe in teething!

23 replies

morningpaper · 24/05/2006 08:42

Well I always thought people were making a giant fuss about teething

But 7 mnth old has been up every 20 minutes for the last 3 nights

Inconsolable, very unhappy during the day

Calpol doesn't seem to help - I have to hold her and rock her constantly

Is this teething? Should I take to Dr?

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jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 24/05/2006 08:45

MP - we have matching babies. Becky is doing the same.

Ive been alternating calpol and nuerofen and applying bonjela, as well as just sitting letting her chomp on my finger for hours

If its been constant for 3 days i would get her checked out though x

lahdeedah · 24/05/2006 09:06

Sounds like teething to me! My DD hardly sleeps when she has a tooth coming. I find baby Nurofen is better for teething than Calpol as it is an anti-inflammatory.

However, as JARM says, if it has been going on like this for three days I would take her to the docs anyway, just in case.

MeAndMyBoy · 24/05/2006 09:12

I found Anbesol liquid worked better than bonjela although DS didn't like the taste as much. It is a bit more powerful and used the liquid not the gel so easier to apply.

SIL used powders of some sort when her's were teething and found that worked too.

hermykne · 24/05/2006 09:14

morning paper - nurofen and it didnt do my ds any harm but he got a double dose going to bed and usually woke only once well after the period for another dose. (i'll be condoned for advising dbl doses now !)

hunkermunker · 24/05/2006 09:14

I don't believe in people who don't believe in teething having an easy ride with their second child

Sorry. Flippant. DS1 had temps of 40+ with every tooth he cut though, so have run the teething gauntlet a few times...

Hope she's better. We used Medised a lot with him (plus Nurofen when temps got v bad) because if he didn't sleep at night, the pain was worse in the daytime - I know it's Frowned Upon to use it in some circles on here, but I don't give a toss

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morningpaper · 24/05/2006 09:16

Thanks all! I've never tried medised - do I buy it on street corners or what?!

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jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 24/05/2006 09:16

oh yes, the wonders of medised - if becky carries on like this, then i will be buying another bottle - helped Jess no end - and it meant more sleep!

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morningpaper · 24/05/2006 09:16

I have appt with Dr this morning btw

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jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 24/05/2006 09:17

Chemist hun, behind the counter. Its fab stuff, but beware they may not like the taste! Jess never did!

Raggydoll · 24/05/2006 09:56

medised - BIG bottle in our house ...

its paracetomol based like calpol but has a dash of antihistamine (or decongestent) - anyway you are supposed to use it when lo have a cold as the antihistamine/decongestent element stops the runny noses and lets them breath easier - however, and this is the important bit, like most antihisamines it 'aids sleep' hence being every mother secret weapon for poorly children (of course last bit is my opinion only )

saltire · 24/05/2006 18:48

My DS2 suffered badly with teeth, and the Doc advised us to give him 2 x 5ml of Calpol and 5ml of junior nurofen at night, as they are safe to give together!

Just a suggestion and some people may not like to give them so much, but our DS was in so much distress we did it, and had a vast improvement

jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 24/05/2006 18:50

how did it go at docs mp?

fruitful · 24/05/2006 18:53

Can they really get high temperatures just from teething? Dd breezed through the whole teething thing - I don't even know when she cut her molars. Ds is making a giant fuss though, (is that man-teething, do you think?).

Anyway - last night he had temperatures high enough to make him throw up (both my kids vomit as soon as their temp goes up). And he is cutting a tooth. I thought he must be ill as well - but could it just be teething on it's own?

jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 24/05/2006 18:59

temps are normal in teething! Becky has peaked a few times over the last few weeks, but we still havent got a tooth!

saltire · 24/05/2006 19:02

DS1 sailed through teething, but as i posted before, DS2 suffered. I believe (and i may be wrong so feel free to correct me!) that the high temp is because of the pain, and the other things that can happen with teething - snotty noses, nappy rash etc

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morningpaper · 24/05/2006 21:04

GP said temp is not associated with teething - I think there is some argument about this issue!

Anyway GP reckoned it was an infection - possibly ears - so we have antibiotics AGAIN!

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MollyMooMin · 25/05/2006 08:53

My DD is 16 months & going through exactly the same. We took her to docs & he says it's a virus although I tend to think it's her last teeth coming through. But, what IS strange, is that teething has never bothered her before.. no problems whatsoever. Her temperature is sky high, especially at night for some reason, she cries all night instead of sleeping 12 hours like normal..and hasn't eaten for 2 days although she has drank abit of milk. No diorrhea or nappy rash... what do you think?
Also, when we keep her cool at night, because of her high temp, she's cold & wants to go in her gro-bag... what do we do?

MollyMooMin · 25/05/2006 09:24

Great! Now she refuses to take any medicine... now what?

Piggiesmum · 25/05/2006 09:27

lol at man-teething.

Ds is doing the same. After going to bed at 7/8pm ish he will wake every 40-45 minutes. Fortunately he will settle reasonably easily but it feels like me and dh are up and down the stairs like yoyos.
After hs 11pm feed he is a bit better till morning but still wakes more than he used to. Poor little fella is chewing everything to death but otherwise doesn't seem to upset by it all yet.

Carameli · 25/05/2006 15:00

just been reading the posts about medised below. My dd(now 2.5yrs) hated it as well when she was younger. But recently she's had a terrible cold so at my wits end from lack of sleep I went and got some more. Now to my amazement she loves the taste, Does anyone know if they have changed it at all?? It certainly smells better than I remember it.

with teething my dd also responded to teetha powders, might be worth a try.

bluejelly · 25/05/2006 15:06

Wasn't here a dentist on here recently who said she didn't believer in teething either?
I think babies/small people just get weirdy temperatures, viruses, disturbed sleep from time to time.
Fail to see how cutting tooth causes a temperature in a baby when it doesn't in an older child or adult.

chapsmum · 25/05/2006 15:21

Here is my theory.
Some children have heightened immune reactions to virus'. IE childhood asthma and eczema. asthma is an infammitory responces or the airways to a some infections etc. Eczeam is a heithened inflammitory responce of the skin.
If some children can have a heightened immune responce to a viral ilness why should they not have a heightened immune reaction to the stress of a tooth . A toothe physiologically causes pain increased salavation and cuses actual separation of the tooth gum which then causes an inflitory responce to promote healing.
so go figure???
I could be completely wrong, but like hunker my chap was very unwell when he cut his tooth(he only has one )
But mysteriously the illness lifted almost as soon as the toothe was cut.

Littlefish · 25/05/2006 15:50

My dd gets a runny nose and at least 3 disturbed nights with every new tooth. Her first teeth came through at 4.5 months which really took me by surprise! At a year she had 16 teeth. We've had an awful lot of sleepless nights!!!!

Another HUGE vote for medised here.

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