| The Pain of Teething Isn't Just Your Baby's
On the one hand, you know that when it's done, you won't have to mash up all of
your baby's food anymore. You won’t have to make up a separate
menu for every meal. You won't have to worry so much about your child choking on big pieces
of food. In short, you’ll be able to give him a little more independence.
But then there's the other hand. The crankiness, the sleepless nights, the
sometimes constant pain... This is the often harsh reality of teething: a
necessary evil, an inevitable step in your baby’s growth.
"Every child is different," says LaDawn Stead, of Spring, Texas. And she should
know; a mother of 6, she is currently enduring the teething stage with her
youngest son, seven months old. "It can be a long process; you just don't know
what to expect!" The first symptom for her son Ryan was excessive drooling. "He
can go through four outfits a day," she says. "And he wants to gnaw on anything
he can reach." Another very common symptom.
"I know that good will ultimately come of teething, but at the moment, I can't
really appreciate that," says Karina Conner of McKinney, Texas. Her three month-old
is already showing symptoms of teething, though teeth may not appear for several
months. With him, symptoms are uncharacteristic crankiness, slobbering,
and slight diarrhea probably as a result of physical distress. "This is my third
time going through it, and I'm already dreading the months ahead."
These moms' experiences are extremely typical. In fact, symptoms can
range from drooling to rashes, low-grade fevers, coughing, swelling,
and runny noses. Teething can be a painful process, and cutting
teeth can put undue stress on your baby's young system.
Mothers often feel helpless to ease their baby's pain.
"I didn't like what was on the
market…"LaDawn and Karina have something in common besides their
multiple experiences with teething babies. "The only things I knew
to try for relief were teething rings, topical gels, and
acetaminophen," laments Karina. LaDawn agrees, "and the rings
only helped slightly with front teeth, and not at all with
sleeplessness."
The two mothers agree that
topical gels were undesirable for a couple of reasons. "Have you
ever had that stuff in your mouth?" poses Karina, who
doesn't trust a baby product until she tries it out herself.
"It tastes awful and numbs your mouth, tongue, and throat. I found
it uncomfortable, and my
babies didn't like it.”
"The gels never really worked
for my babies," agrees LaDawn, "because it's really only effective
if you apply it directly to where the pain is, and I couldn't know
where that was!" Other concerns mothers have is that
most topical gels on the market rely on Benzocaine, an anesthetic,
to numb babies' gums. "Mostly I resorted to Tylenol," they
both admitted, but not without concern. In fact, many moms use
acetaminophen to ease baby's pain, and then worry about
overmedication.
"I basically just try to suffer through it, knowing it could take
several months before the process is over," says LaDawn. "We're into
the fourth month
of it with Ryan.”
The Alternative You've Been Looking For
We offer a solution
based on a radically different approach. Soft-dissolving
Teething Tablets use microdoses of natural medicines that support
dentition and ease pain. Because they are natural and contain only
small doses of medicine, Teething Tablets carry no risk of
overdose or side effects. In fact, they can be used safely with
other pain medicines. But that
probably won't be necessary. Because the most important thing
about Teething Tablets is that they work. For over 100
years, moms have trusted this 100% natural, homeopathic approach to
easing teething pain. The
homeopathic approach relies on small doses of natural ingredients to
stimulate the body's healing process instead of large doses that
create
undesirable side effects. For instance, Belladonna is an ingredient
in the tablets, which in large amounts could be toxic, but in minute
amounts, homeopathic Belladonna helps the body to heal and would
never be toxic to your baby. Even if your baby accidentally
swallowed an entire bottle of Teething Tablets, there is
little chance of experiencing side
effects. The homeopathic approach allows for a very large margin of
safety. "I have a picture of my
daughter Tabitha sleeping, holding the bottle of Teething
Tablets, which says it all." Michelle Moses of Germantown, Maryland
never worried that the tablets were acting as a sedative, though
some parents may think so by the results. When Teething
Tablets start working to soothe your baby's gums, the relief they
feel helps them calm down and finally get the rest they may have
been needing for days. "When Tabitha starts crying and putting her
hands in her
mouth I grab my stash of tablets. As soon as she sees me pouring
three in my hand she immediately calms down. She quickly learned the
benefit of these little white tablets." Homeopathic is the different approach many parents are seeking. The
all-natural approach to pain relief brings a safety that other
treatments can't provide. Instead of numbing the mouth, the
quick-dissolving tablets resolve teething pain more quickly than
other treatments. Since learning
there is another option, LaDawn has been using Hyland's for a month.
Her only question is this: "Where was this five kids ago?"
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