Baby paracetamol - what did you do?

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So, my 4.5 month old is teething, or so we think. She’s constantly dribbling and wants to put everything in her mouth. She’s also a little fussy, wants to be held all the time and is waking up 3/4 times during the night. When she wakes I breastfeed and she goes back to sleep.

My husband and MIL think that we should be giving her paracetamol (a Spanish alternative to Calpol - we live outside of the UK!) before she goes to bed and in the morning. I disagree!

What are you thoughts? Mine are that if and when she is in pain I’ll give it to her but she’s not crying as if she is and therefore I’m just giving it to her why? Because she’s a bit fussy?

Did you see this from a few years ago OP? It seems to support your stance.

BBC News - Are we using too much Calpol?
www.bbc.com/news/av/health-44140151

At 4.5 months fussiness and sleep can be caused by the biological regression they go through at that age. Mine woke hourly and was much fussier in the day, I assumed teething and gave calpol but he didn't cut his tooth until 7 months. Dribbling and mouthing can be meither here nor there too. So frusrating to not know! We later learned the signs for him of pain and discomfort and gave calpol and nurofen as needed. We also used anbesol when it was particularly bad. I would absolutely give pain relief if I knew they were in pain, but I often assumed teeth in the younger months when it likely wasn't