Infacol and Gripe water

My little boy is 7 weeks old and I have been giving him Infacol with great results, intially. The effectiveness is wearing off I think, but it is still working to some degree. He is still on 7 bottles p/d, each with a dose of Infacol in them. I was wondering if I can supplement this with occasional doses of Gripe Water. I have read some conflicting opinions on doing this - some say it is fine and others say not. Has anyone here used them concurrently and, if so, have you had much success?

Thanks :)

Bella had terrible wind when born and we used Infacol and also Infants freind - we alternated them week by week - the chemist said it was fine to do. Maybe run it past your local chemist??

Hey Sam :)

Is he drinking all his milk? Cos if he isn't drinking all his milk, he may not be getting the full dose, therefore it may not be as effective? FWIW, I gave DS infacol straight from the dropper, I didn't mix it in with his milk and it worked fine.

But - all those things only worked up to about 7 weeks with Miss M, and I tried all the remedies out there, but she was diagnosed with silent reflux. So it might be something like that? I'd take him to a homeopath and see what they say - or you can try to take him to a paed chiro to get him checked out. We did with both our kids, cos they can help with reflux and wind and things like that. Especially with c-section babies cos of the way they get pulled out, can sometimes put their little bods out of whack.

xxx

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I'm taking my chucky little bubs to a chiro and I have really noticed a reduction in her spills and silent reflux. I am not even using infacol anymore which is nice. He is also helping with her tendency to only look one way and her tummy pain. GL

Sam if youre looking for a paed chiro I know a fab one thats close to you :) pm me if you want details :)

i dont really have an answer to your question. just wanted to say congrats on the birth of your little boy. i think i met you at the Brissy meet up and you were pregant then! :-)

I third (or forth) taking bub to a paediatric chiro! I have taken all my bubs, I took DD for the first time on Tuesday and have seen a reduction in wind problems since then.

I was giving her Infacol too, but like Mel, I just syringed it straight into her mouth before a feed (she's breastfed, but it would be the same for a bottle fed bub too :)).

Thanks everyone - I really value all of your advice!

Jakabella, I just called the pharmacy and they said it wasn't a problem to use both because the one is absorbed and the other isn't, but that neither were as effective as a product called Mirena. So we will be off to buy that tomorrow :)

Mel, he is already seeing a chiro which is definitely helping as we are a long way from where we were at the start.

ryatha, our boy's shoulders got stuck during the c-section and so he had some tension in his neck. He also has a tendency to look one way, but we are seeing a chiro and physio to address that (especially because the one side of his head is strating to get a bit flat)

sneakysparkle, thanks. He doesn't happen to be located to in Grange does he? Because we are seeing a great one there :)

Hollo - thanks so much (I do remember meeting you!). Yeah I have been so scarce because we have really had a bit of a run of it in terms of feeding issues, milk protein intolerance etc. etc...so Belly Belly has not featured much in my day-to-day existence. Hopefully when he is a bit older I will be a bit active around here!

Trish - congrats on the birth of your little one, Belly Buddie!! As both you and Mel have suggested, I will definitely try doing the infacol before the feed as he doesn't always finish his bottles (probably because mum makes up too much each time!)

Thanks again, girls :)

Hi,
Just wondering if you found this Mirena product and whether it helped?

I did try Mirena, but didn't notice too much of a difference / improvement. What I did end up doing was changing his bottles and teats to the Pigeon brand and that definitely improved his wind situation (initially I was using Medela teats and bottles). I have been using the Peristaltic "S" teats which seem to minimise the amount of wind he swallows while feeding.