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Best teething gel for 3mo - please help ASAP

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Mamabear04 · 27/10/2022 10:39

What's the best teething gel for a 3mo? DS has not slept all night and I need us to have a decent nap before DD comes home from nursery!!!

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minipie · 27/10/2022 10:41

Calpol or ideally nurofen (if he’s old enough, can’t remember the age limits) will do a lot more than teething gel IME

And will also help if it isn’t teething but eg cold or other bug

minipie · 27/10/2022 10:42

Good luck!

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Mamabear04 · 27/10/2022 10:45

Thanks ,@minipie I've tried both but he wakes up every 40 mind gnawing on his hands!!! I am a broken woman today!!!

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minipie · 27/10/2022 11:12

I bet you are - poor you. I would stick him in the buggy, take him for a walk round the block, he will likely nod off with the motion and then hopefully you can park him in the hall and have a snooze yourself?

If Calpol and Nurofen haven’t touched it then teething gel is unlikely to I reckon. Anbesol is the strongest gel but iirc it’s not recommended for that age. The other gels are weaker and all have the same ingredients so no difference. Teething powders are mostly sugar. Later you could try giving him a frozen flannel/frozen damp muslin to chew on but obviously that will take a while to prepare.

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Mamabear04 · 27/10/2022 12:03

@minipie thanks so much. We had to drive to a shop to get more calpol/ibuprofen and because he was screaming the entire time I just picked up some parsons teething powders on the off chance they might help (they definitely didn't help, what a waste of money!!!) But he fell asleep on the way the way home with his whole hand in his mouth. It must be so sore for him!!!

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Mamabear04 · 27/10/2022 12:13

Ps thank you for the flannel tip. Going to give it a try!

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minipie · 27/10/2022 13:56

Glad he fell asleep!

Just one other thing - 3 months is very early for teething so I wonder if something else might be making him sore? Hand foot and mouth or oral thrush maybe? Though chewing on his hand wouldn’t help with those, so probably not, but worth looking in his mouth when he’s awake just to check.

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Mamabear04 · 27/10/2022 14:20

@minipie it's definitely teething. He's been chewing on his hand all morning and won't stop crying. I thought it was young too but HV thought it was teething a few weeks ago too only now it's ramped up. He did have his 2nd round of vaccines a couple of days ago too so think that's partially to blame. He does settle a little when I rub his lower gums...

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FrizzledFrazzle · 27/10/2022 14:31

My sympathies! DS started teething at 3mo (no teeth emerged yet!) and it was really tough for about 3 weeks - he would cry inconsolably, want to feed but pull away in pain, was dribbling everywhere and got quite sicky because of all the drooling. And because he would shove his first in his mouth until he gagged. So fun.

Things that helped:

Calpol (didn't know about neurofen)
big, soft squishy toys he could hold and chew on. A cloth book and a soft toy dinosaur from jellycat were the best
letting him chew my finger or thumb (but that also made him gag)
lots of physical play (flying, bouncing, dancing) to distract him
feeding him straight after he came out of the bath when he was very relaxed
taking him outside. Yeah, that was me standing in the park breastfeeding a miserable baby in the cold. Or pushing him crying in the pram until he fell asleep. Not memories for the parenting honour roll.
giving him cold milk in a bottle straight from the fridge. If he was too upset to eat and too hungry to sleep this sometimes helped

Things that didn't help

teething toys - he was too young to be able to manipulate them into his mouth usefully
teething mitt - too big and unwieldy

Dipsydoodlenoodle · 27/10/2022 15:54

Teething mits might help. Ashton and parsons do a teething gel but I'm not sure if its 3 or 4 months. Failing that anbesol, but not sure on age limit.

My DD was the same...there wasn't much I could do and she wouldn't entertain teething mits. Her first tooth didn't come through until she was 7 months though...then it's been pretty constant since then (now 11 months).

brainstories568 · 27/10/2022 17:41

Mine was also an early teether, but didn't get any through for months (about 8 months) when he suddenly got 6 through at once. He continued to get them rapidly and at his 12 month review the HV commented that he had the most teeth of any 12 month old she'd ever seen. He had them all by 16 months yet some of his friends are still getting them through at 3.5 years.

We generally used baby ibuprofen for teething as it is better at stopping the inflammation, and then teething granules called Teetha. I was a bit suspect as to whether they'd work but they seemed to calm his mouth down in between doses of ibuprofen. He also enjoyed chewing on a wooden spoon when he was older, but obviously not at 3 months! And anbesol was a god send that's for 6 months plus (potentially 12 months +) as it quite literally numbs their mouth, but we also used bonjella (the baby one!) lots on his dummy too.... If he's in awful pain with it then you could potentially introduce a dummy, if he doesn't already have one? The sucking motion can help and then you can also get the teething gels into their mouth more easily...!

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