Finding Effective Teething Remedies

One of the worst things to deal with for a parent is seeing their child in pain and being able to do little to stop it. However this is an issue that all parents are faced with at some point in their children’s lives. For many parents, particularly mothers, this begins in infancy when baby begins teething.

Although there are many teething remedies available these are not always effective for each individual child. Just like with so many other things teething and the symptoms it causes affect each child in a unique way. This is because each child deals with pain in different ways and may have different levels as to how much pain they can comfortable tolerate.

It has been proven many times over that two individuals can have the exact same symptoms with the same degree of pain and identical circumstances yet how these two individuals each deal with this occurrence can be as different as night and day. This is a perfect example of how each person deals with different issues in their own way.

In the same respect how each person responds to certain medications and treatments also varies greatly from one person to another. What works very well for one person may have little or no effect for another person.

Although every person is greatly different there are many teething remedies that a parent may try in an effort to alleviate their baby’s pain however if you try one and it doesn’t work don’t give up. If you keep trying different things you are bound to find one eventually that will give your baby some relief.

Although some of these remedies are simple and old fashioned there are also others that are more modern and conventional choices however many individuals believe that the simple and old fashioned ways are the best. Some of the remedies that many parents have found to be effective include gel or water filled teething toys that have been frozen as well as other frozen items such as bananas or a washcloth, ice chips or other cold foods such as yogurt or pickles, cold water, teething biscuits or fruit such as pieces of apple.

In addition to these natural ways of relieving teething pain there are also medications that may be beneficial for teething although in most cases these should only be used as a last resort. These medications include teething powders and gels that you can rub on your baby’s gums as well as other oral medications that can be used for fever reduction and pain relief.

One of the oldest teething remedies that many parents of the older generations have used over the years and often swore by as being the most effective is also the most dangerous. In the days before there were so many remedies available for teething symptoms many parent’s rubbed alcohol or whiskey on their baby’s gums not knowing the dangerous effects this can have on a young child. This is one remedy that should NEVER under any circumstances be used on a child. Alcohol can be deadly poison to a baby or young child.

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