teething products

Can anyone recommend a good product for teething relief? My girl is having a pretty unpleasant time with her teeth at the moment and its terrible timing with her starting daycare so I'd like to see if I can ease the pain a bit so she can sleep

Any suggestions? (It does need to be dairy free)

we used good old bonjela in our house... and pamol of course... weleda do a teething powder and ther are also drops you can get too.

you could try an amber teething necklace too.

The weleda powder is in a lactose base - so probably not the best if you are avoiding dairy.

I wouldn't use bonjela - there was a thing on Campbell live about it about a year ago. I think from memory that a baby died (in Britain?) from using it.

Naturopharm do a teething spray which we use. Failing that we use Nurofen.

I just looked up about the bonjela and the teething gel is fine and it has been declared safe to use in nz. Just use the recommended dosage.

Mum2ET - yeah i think the tablets are helping Caide, he isn't teething too bad yet but they are moving round and we haven't had too many upset days or nights with him. I would recommend them.

Reading and running here - Naturo PharmTeethmed Relief spray is awesome. We use it with DD and although it's quite expensive (about $20) the bottle lasts for ages. Just do 2 sprays in the mouth. You can get it at the chemist.

LOL MamaT, Sienna does exactly the same thing!

Naturopharm teething spray here too DS also opens his mouth when he sees the bottle. We use an amber necklace too.

I can't work out how to use bonjela, is there a trick? I assumed it would be completely simple but every time he's licked it off before I've had a chance to get it near his gums! Seems to like it

So far apart from terrible sleep, he hasn't seemed too upset though, just a couple of times on the day they came through briefly and a quick spritz with the spray seemed to do the trick. I hear the top ones are worse, so I guess that will be the real test if these things are working for us.



Edited by chelle

We use bonjela (no real trick, just shove my finger to the back of his mouth as quick as I can!) at night and pamol if I think he's really bad. C wears a teething necklace all the time but not sure how much it's helping as he hasn't really taken it off IYGWIM!

We also have a homeopathic teething powder - Nelson's Teetha from the UK. It contains chamomilla .. argh and lactose, starch and xylitol apparently so perhaps not a good option if you're avoiding dairy. Bummer as it really seems to help here!

Thanks. Bought the spray so will see if that helps

Chelle the bottom 2 were not too bad but the top 2 are proving hard work.