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Unicorn234 · 22/04/2019 11:55

Anyone used it and did it help? Using infacol at the minute, helps with winding sometimes however sometimes during feeds my little boy seems really uncomfortable, pulls away from the bottle and goes abit red. He never normally cries with it though. Also there's been times when he pulls his legs to his chest and groans and grunts and just generally looks uncomfortable. I have since starting using a new technique on him where I do the bicycle legs and then push his legs to his chest and he farts, which seems to help.
Anyone else's child like this? Is it wind or could it be something else?

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Aquilla · 22/04/2019 12:23

No, it used to work a treat in the old days thanks to the sugar and alcohol in it but I found it useless. Infacol was ok.

PhalangeReginaPhalange · 22/04/2019 12:24

It does sound like wind. We used it found it worked for LO as did infacol!

PhalangeReginaPhalange · 22/04/2019 12:25

Oh and we switched to mam bottles which helped loads

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Sculpin · 22/04/2019 12:34

I think it's v similar to Infacol so you may not notice much difference.

Unicorn234 · 22/04/2019 12:35

@PhalangeReginaPhalange yes I've got the mam bottles as it's the only one he would take too

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happyhillock · 22/04/2019 12:38

I used gripe water for my eldest DD, it really did help

Charlottejade89 · 23/04/2019 10:08

my dd had awful colic and I tried infacol which didnt make any different, gripe water did abit but it also made her poo like water! the best thing we tried was dentinox anticolic drops in her feeds and using anticolic bottles

Thebookswereherfriends · 23/04/2019 10:16

Using gripe water was a big mistake for me - my dd was a windy baby and I tried it one day, she promptly projectile vomited for the first and last time! Never touched the stuff again!!

MollysLips · 23/04/2019 10:32

It was fab for my D.C. in the early 2000s. Don't know if the recipe has changed since then. Give it a try - it's cheap and won't hurt him.

alench78 · 21/04/2020 12:10

How do you give it to them? Within a feed/bottle or with a syringe?

Laylor · 22/04/2020 08:14

Try colief drops. Pain in the arse to prepare and very expensive but helped my 8 week until he got diagnosed with a cows milk allergy on Monday. It did relieve some symptoms though x

TwistofFate · 22/04/2020 10:33

Tried gripe water (because both sets of grandparents swore by it) but didn't seem to make any difference, infacol seemed go help a bit. Could your son have silent reflux? We've just started our DD on infant gaviscon and she's much less windy and squirms less during feeding.

jesslambo88 · 23/04/2020 02:36

We found dentinox worked better than infacol in our little boys bottle xxx

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