Can I use colic drops with newborn to prevent colic?

[Lilybow]

Someone I know said she prevented colic by giving him colic drops immediately from birth.
Is usig colic products before we even know if baby is colicky worth doing? Wondering if other parents have done this?

How does she know she "prevented colic" rather than the baby simply never having it?!

No. It's bonkers. And expensive. Babies have colic or they don't, but you don't head colic off by starting to dose them up at birth.

No definitely not!!! Really unnecessary. As the pp said, how does your friend know she 'prevented colic'? The baby just wasn't colicky in the first place.

No, that's like taking paracetamol incase you get a headache at some point. 1 of my 3 DC had colic. They either have it or don't.

I did wonder which is why I asked, I'm pregnant with my first atm. I don't know much about colic or how it starts but also wary of trying things that aren't needed.

Colic is unexplained crying.

Sorry, that might have come across as a bit flippant! I mean the unexplained crying can be caused by stomach discomfort but as you can't really test for this, it all gets rolled up as colicky crying.
As pp have said, no point in colic drops unless you are experiencing the symptoms of colic.

I had one colicky baby and one not. Tbh infacol did nothing....

@butterflyrabbit

Colic is unexplained crying.

🙄 well it’s not

@Kitkat151 It really is unexplained crying

It's weird it's called colic - because that normally means 'pain' in medical terminology (eg biliary colic) and we assume the baby is in pain when they cry like that. I guess we can't ask them so we don't know for sure.

I didn't believe it either but the definition of colic in babies is unexplained crying.

One of the things I hated about having a newborn is that there are loads of assumptions that basically no-one really knows for certain, it's always a case of it'll work itself out in time. So much guesswork and 'old wives' tales'!