Teething - do amber anklets work?

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Any experiences would be welcomed please! I have a 4 month old. Thank you!

G5000 - Also, other, self-limiting conditions can get mistaken for teething. I always used to dread
the mums who'd turn up at baby group saying "poor thing is teething, we were up all night because he had a fever over 39 and vomiting. Classic teething symptoms". Within the next day or two, my DC would have come down with the bug and their baby would be better (which they'd attribute to amber beads or whatever supposed remedy they were using to ease the "teething" symptoms).

Blanca - ha! Bless you!

Explodingkitten - it all makes sense now! You have been scarred by your experiences (sorry to hear that) so you're venting at me. Again, I own loads of crystals and have used them on myself. So no hypocrite here. And they would never be used as an alternative, only in addition. But I've learnt that they are prob a waste of waste of time in this instance. I still find you incredibly rude and you shouldn't project your childhood experiences and assume I am the same, very telling though! All the best, now please stop talking to me.

Bertaandrussell - I'm struggling to see where the risk is?! As I've said, complementary medicine is exactly that, not ALTERNATIVE for the umpteenth time! I ask for experiences not judgement. But yet I'm judging so many of the people on here right now! And again, I haven't bloody used them, I asked an innocent question. Again, please stop now it's boring.

People say that amber works because the warmth of the baby’s body makes it give off succinic acid. If it did, the baby would be absorbing unknown quantities of an untested, unregulated chemical. That has to be a risk.

It amazes me how many otherwise rational, intelligent people actually believe this mumbo jumbo.

Useless at best, dangerous at worst.

I'm struggling to see where the risk is?!
They are a choking hazard. Have you not read that multiple times?

Choking hazard and unknown chemicals.

Succinic acid melts at 187c.

So unless your child is a demon forged in the fires of hell itself* it’s unlikely and succinic acid is released from the beads. Which are a choking and strangulation hazard.

• a possibility I sometimes entertain with my own.

I wonder if people who use them would be OK with their DC going onto a clinical trial of succinic acid as a painkiller in teething infants?

Of course people are allowed to believe in what they want. It doesn't stop them being silly people if they believe in silly things.

Presumably such an effective pain reliever is available in tablet/liquid/gel form?

I can't imagine such a safe and sure fire 'cure' for teething pain would be overlooked by the pharmaceutical industry?