Like any parent, if we knew of something we could be doing to better help our child we would do it. After Dane was so colicky over the past week or so, Larissa and I read online about several products that can help babies with colic. But I am somewhat skeptical. If these things worked so well, why wouldn't I have learned about it in medical school? or had the pediatrician tell us about it? We are currently trying two products:
- The first is Simethicone (baby-strength Gas-X).
- The second is "Gripe Water". This is the one I am most skeptical about. It's like an herbal tea for babies containing sodium, ginger, and fennel.
So, have you tried them? How did they work for you? Or, better yet, what helped you with colicky kids?
Whether it is snake oil or miracle oil, Dane's colic has seemed to calm down over the 2 or 3 days that we have been using these.
Monday, June 1, 2009
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Hi I just read your entry about 'snake oil'...aka baby tea. I just wanted to say that in Germany they give this to babies regularly...they swear by it! Zach was 10 months old by the time we moved there so he could graduate to 'child tea,' of which there were 2 kinds : night and day. I thought it was great. They had a tea for everything.
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