the virgin gut and calpol?

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how does this play out, my 5 month old is very upset teething but id like to keep his "virgin gut" so given a bit of ashtons teething powder and dentinox teething gel, also calpol (not all at once) but wondered what ingesting these would mean to the gut therory? also am i being weird in feeling odd giving him calpol?? feel funny that my babys first tastes is strawberry flavoured paracetamol

Yikes, no idea what a 'virgin gut' is but I wonder if leaving your child in pain and distressed is a fair trade off for maintaing it?

Anbesol is the best thing for teething IMO. Not full of sugar or sweeteners either (I don't think).

My DTs are 5 months too. I am dreading double teething.

I wondered this yesterday.
DS2 has just had his jabs and is Not Very Well as a result, he had calpol for the first time but when giving him it I wondered if it would alter his virgin gut.

i thikn there was a thread on this recenlty and medications don;t count re the virgin gut, it is the milk and food that does.. but i might be wrong.. try a search of the archives on here

Your baby's first taste wasn't calpol - it was milk - about 5 months ago! Carry on with giving the child some pain relief!

I'm thinking as it isn't food it doesn't get digested, but absorbed which is where the difference lies.
Might be wrong though.

A-ha.

by the all-knowing tiktok!

By tiktok on Wed 02-Jan-08 18:42:00
The definition of exclusive breastfeeding does not depend on the baby having no medication, and in any case, infacol does not work on the baby's physiology, but on the air in his gut, so it has no systemic effect anyway.
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you are exclusively breastfeeding if you are giving your baby breastmilk only, and there is an official definition here:

www.linkagesproject.org/tools/m&e/ebr.php

Any studies done on the outcomes of babies who are excl bf and those who are not are based on that definition.

Alright- Thanks for raising this thread. I had exactly same (silly and emotional?)concerns myself, held off on the calpol til DD was 22 weeks and in visible agony through the night, then was GUTTED when she seemed to enjoy it so much ... made me realise just what all those E numbers are for! (grrrr). Incidentally it really didn't help much, Dentinox gel seems better (having broken the medication embargo I just thought, to hell with it, poor girl needs pain relief, but I will check out ambesol - thanks Egg). HOWEVER, I have been giving her frozen carrot sticks to bite as the silly teething toys don't seem to fit in her tiny mush, she likes to chomp them after they've gone rubbery too. Is a dribble of carrot juice compromising the virgin gut??