What do you use for teething pain?

Bonnesetter27

I think my ds is waking at night because of teething pain. Currently we use tylenol but I am open to suggestions. Advil? Hylands? (I am worried about Hylands because of all the bad press in the past year. Someone tell me it's a godsend and to stop worrying.)

HeatherPB1020

We use Motrin and Tylenol.  The Motrin seems to work better for us... it also seems to last longer.

dsmithplus2

Tylenol would be my choice, LO hasn't started teething yet.

loganlac

HeatherPB1020:

We use Motrin and Tylenol.  The Motrin seems to work better for us... it also seems to last longer.

 This exactly!

mjune3881

Lurking ... I was told by my pedi, nothing but Tylenol or Triametic (sp?)

CourtneyRenee9109

mjune3881:

Lurking ... I was told by my pedi, nothing but Tylenol or Triametic (sp?)

My pedi said nothing but Tylenol until 6 months. After 6 months, they can use Motrin/Advil.

We give DS Advil & tylenol....Sometimes one works better than the other.

rickandcaitlin

Flame me but we use Hylands I used them on all the kids and they work right away.

biblionerd

We'd only been using tylenol, but took DS to the pedi today because I thought he had an ear infection. It ended up just being pain from teething and she said that generally (in her experience), ibuprofen tends to work better and last longer. We'll be using it tonight for the first time. ::fingers crossed::

RunningGal900

Scout2005:

mjune3881:

Lurking ... I was told by my pedi, nothing but Tylenol or Triametic (sp?)

At your LO's age, that is totally true.

Once they hit 6 months, they can have ibuprofen, and it is MUCH more effective in our experience.  

Yep, this. I tried Hylamds and they don't work for crap on DS.

Bonnesetter27

Thanks ladies. I bought both Ibuprofen and hylands and used the ibuprofen tonight. Fingers crossed that it works!

MissManda

We can't use Ibuprofen for a week because of a minor surgery this week... But, Tylenol tends to help DS' pain more than Ibuprofen (Ibuprofen is great for fevers, though). I got some NATURAL Orajel tonight - no benzocaine - so if he wakes up hurting like he did last night, I'm giving tylenol and orajel and *hopefully* putting him back to bed!

laurakaz13

HeatherPB1020:

We use Motrin and Tylenol.  The Motrin seems to work better for us... it also seems to last longer.

This. 

march2008

DD just got her first tooth on Christmas Eve and now the second one is very close to breaking through, too. She's in obvious discomfort and super fussy lately. We've been using Tylenol occasionally and it never seems to help her. I tried Motrin today for the first time and I noticed quite a bit of improvement.