Calpol or Nurofen for teething?

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Hi Parents, which worked best for you for your LO’s teething? I’ve tried Bonjela w Calpol and it hasn’t really done much. I’m 99.9% sure it’s teething. After advice on my other thread, I am going to try Anbesol liquid and Nurofen but what did you use?

nurofen did nothing for us
calpol doesn’t either

anbesol and nursing is the only remedy. Try giving baby cold teethers, cucumber that sort of stuff

nhs recommend nurofen. I found nurofen and anbesol liquid worked well.

Anbesol is like magic, it's the only thing that helps him get to sleep initially at bedtime when he's teething. We found nurofen was better than calpol as it worked quicker and lasted longer, but both did the job and we often alternated them when it was really bad.

I prefer nurofen as it’s a smaller dose and it lasts longer! Two of my dc hate taking medicine so the smaller dose works well for us.

Depends on which teeth in my experience. Anbesol worked well for us until the molars.
We gave both Calpol and nurofen for those and no obvious difference between them.

Granted my DC are older now so no doubt the advice has changed! However the HV recommended to me at the time to use both - nurofen 1st and then 2 hours later Calpol
And then 2 hours later nurofen again. Each would have 4 hours between doses but it meant that neither would have had time to completely wear off so they wouldn't be in pain . But like I said this way quite a number of years ago so best to seek further advice but to my understanding iprobufen is meant to reduce swelling so therefore is better for gums

Alternated between nurofen and Calpol and used anbesol before bed time.

Thank you everyone:)

Both. And the granules are good too!

Thank you :)