Baby Teething Help

My sister is having a really hard time with her 7 month old infant teething, and this is what I told her

"If you haven't tried teething tablets yet it's worth picking some up - they really seemed to help Joe. They are homeopathic. You can get them in any health food store and sometimes in the vitamins section of walmart. Also, do you have a baby safe feeder? If you don't, let me know and I'll send you one. You put a frozen banana slice in it, prop him up on a towel, and let him have at it. It makes a mess but is guaranteed for 20 minutes of quiet time. -- that is unless he's already eating solid food, I don't know what kind of a schedule you have him on."

The teething tablets really did help a lot. I felt completely safe giving them to him, as they were homeopathic. Dr Dean Edell explained homeopathic medicine this way once on his radio (I'm paraphrasing from memory here): You take the medicine, and you put a drop of it in a swimming pool of water, then you take a drop of that water and put it in another swimming pool, and so on and so on until there is no medicine left. The belief is that the water retains the properties of the medicine you are trying to impart, without the side effects.

Also, a friend once told me her boy got into a bottle once and ate the whole thing. She called poison control and they told her not to worry, teething tablets were the safest thing in the world.

So anyway, when Joe was older I would give them to him as a tablet, when he was younger I would dissolve two in a dropperful of water and put it in his mouth. Both ways seemed to help him a lot. He would stop crying and whining -- but it usually only seemed to last for about 10 minutes or so, at which point I would give him more.