Colic Calm - Gripe Water

[Christina888]

Does anyone know whether you can get Colic Calm/Gripe Water in Singapore? If, so have you used it?

[durain]

have you checked watson or guardian???

[Little M]

Gripe water was not useful for my kiddo. I tried giving infacol before as well.

But u know what, actually my kiddo didn't actually have colic. He just wanted to be cuddled

You can get those from Watsons and Guardian pharmacy

[snowqueen]

Both Watsons and Guardian sell it and you maybe able to get it from the supermarkets as well.

I used Dentinox, not sure if it worked though.

[ksl]

Of course gripe water works very well to relieve the painful trapped wind in babies, though you need to help them still bring it up, by rubbing and patting the back. The manufacturing is of different qualities and ingredients these days, everyone trying to ride on the success of Gripe water since the mid 1800.

The main fact is that babies do cry for many reasons, wind being only one, colic is more sever but gripe water gives relief of many ailments even in adults.

Though i would tend in my day, to give a couple of ounce of gripe water, after a bottle, to my own kids, as the stomach lining of babies takes around 3 years to adapt to all the rubbish on the market. So avoid giving 2 year olds' fizzy acidic beverages.

Most babies want the attention and will cry anyway, its their natural survival instinct to manipulate parents, so get to understand the difference....time to sleep means sleep so a 5 to 10 minute wailing session is expected if left alone, which is not a good method.

Have body contact until the baby falls asleep, they normally will after a good feed and winding and a cuddle. If you do not wind, then expect a baby to cry in pain.
Just my 10 cents from a daddy.

The other thing is different cultures have different methods, for stomache ailments in babies, don't be afraid to learn them, they may come in very handy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripe_water

I'm an ENO man myself Lemon Flavour

[Christina888]

Thanks for your replies...I've been into both Guardian and Watsons and they sell 'Gripe Water' however its not the 'Colic Calm' brand. This one is the only one the is Homeopathic, the others have sodium bicarbonate which i read is not good for infants. Having said that the pharmacist said that the amount was only minimal and would not do any harm. who knows? I just want my baby to be comfortable and not struggle to push out the gas.....by the way i am using Dentinox.....again.....i too am not sure whether it works or not!

[sazax]

The pharmacies in Singapore don't carry it, so I bought a couple of bottles of Colic Calm from the US last week and have been using it on my 9-week-old son for the past 3 nights. (I only administer it once at night when he starts to experience discomfort.)

It does calm him pretty quickly and he doesn't seem to be struggling so hard to force the gas out of his tummy anymore, but his stool output has dropped significantly and when he passes gas it stinks. I don't know definitively if that was caused by Colic Calm but that's the only thing I've changed in his routine in the past few days.

I read comments from another online forum that said Colic Calm caused constipation so I'm hoping that isn't happening with my son. Just to be safe, I'm planning on not using it tonight and see if that changes anything.

[Dolph]

My first baby had the most terrible colic for the first 3 months of his life. We tried absolutely everything and I'm sad to say that nothing worked. One day he simply just grew out of it. The only thing that worked for us was to find that "sweet spot" when he was on his tummy across my tummy which seemed to stop the pain for a little while. We held him, comforted him, massaged his tummy and gave him a dummy to suck on. They were the only things that worked for us. Gripe water and similar products didn't do anything for him.

[thirdeagle]

Gripe water did not really work with my kids - I did try Colic Calm with my first and something local wth my second.

Simethicone (Dentinox, Mylicon) worked with my first but not my second.

My first was rarely bothered. My second eventually grew out of it - I didn't find anything that made a difference.