Baby Teething Remedies

The 5 Most Effective Pain Relief Remedies For Your Infant

OK, so CDs may not be one of the best baby teething remedies in the world!

But unless you provide your baby with alternatives, he will chew on just about anything. (Well, he probably will anyway, because that's how babies are.)

Below you'll find some suggestions on how to help your teething baby ease the pain.

If you are uncertain whether your infant is actually teething, click here to learn about the most common teething symptoms.

Now check the teething relief tips. In my experience, a combination of actual pain relief and distraction works the best.

Effective Teething Remedies for Babies

• Something to bite on
• Something cold
• Pain relief medication
• Distraction
• Something with flavor

Something to bite on

If you don't give your baby something to bite on, you can be sure that he'll find something anyway. Babies tend to gnaw on everything when teething.

But biting a teething toy might provide a little extra relief. A rubber toy with some nice texture to chew on seems to be popular among babies.

Something cold

You can also try putting an ice cube in a thin, clean towel and rub it against your baby's gum, where the tooth is about to erupt. But don't use just an ice cube, since this could be a choking hazard.

For the same reason don't let your baby have the towel and ice cube.

One mom I talked to soaked part of a cloth and then put it in the freezer. Her baby, who woke up at night inconsolable, suck on the towel for a little while and then went back to sleep. Definitely worth trying!

Don't soak a too big part of the towel though, or your baby will become soaking wet when the water melts.

Older babies may enjoy gnawing a frozen banana too.

Pain relief medication

You can also try a teething gel, like this one at Amazon. Personally, I don't have a good experience of those - just a screaming baby and no true relief. I guess it tasted really bad according to my baby. But of course it might work for your baby!

A home remedy I recently learned about is vanilla extract. Rubbing it against your baby's gum is supposed to easy the pain a bit.

Distraction

Something with flavor

Frozen water melon is another option.

I've also tried giving my babies crusts - very popular. Just try finding crusts that don't contain sugar. Also, remember that once your baby has a few teeth, he can actually bite off pieces of the crust. As always, you need to watch your baby, so that he doesn't choke.

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