Natural Remedies For Colic

We have tried many of the "manuvers" to help with colic like putting her on her tummy, and walking. She is breast fed so formula isn't the issue. We have addressed my diet and hydration.

I have seen a few posts here for different medication but what else is out there and how well does it work?

I feel for you! My baby cried from 6-11 pm every single night and there was absolutely nothing I could do for her, even the doctor said so. I just sat there and held her. She cried for hours in my arms for the first 3 months of her life. Buy ear plugs and hold your baby alot. If you can't help her with the colic, just hold her and let her know you are there for comfort. You can do soothing things like rocking, but that really didnt help in my situation.

2007-09-27 22:49:27 by toonew2two

Home remedies for colic in an infant includes mixing baby formula with water instead of milk, feeding the baby in an upright position, giving the ...

What is the best natural remedy to treat colic in new infants?

Gripe Water works Great! Go to Walgreens they have different brands.. and it is natural.

2009-08-21 13:40:57 by LISA H

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My 5 week old son has seen a doctor and does have colic, but they didn't give him anything to help. I have heard about Mylicon gas drops working, but so far they haven't helped at all. i was wondering if there was anything i could buy or do at home to help him sleep and quit crying? maybe natural herbs or something?

My oldest had this problem and so did my youngest. My oldest was switched to a Soy based formula. My youngest was nursed for a short period of time and when we had to give her a bottle, no dairy products agreed with her, we ended up having her on a Nutramigen which is an expensive formula but it is hypo-allergenic.
I'd recommend checking into the babies formula first, I'd also agree with baby sleep solutions, no harm in that:)
Mylicon worked for my children sometimes, it is rather expensive. Running the vacuum cleaner (until it broke) worked very well too!!
She slept like a baby while the vacuum was on!! Also try laying the baby face down, on his/her belly on your lap and rubbing his/her back and patting their back!!

Hope you find something that works for you, it is so hard to have a baby/infant with Colic, it is very demanding, sleep depriving, hairpulling (your own of course:) period of time, good thing is, they do grow out of it, eventually!!

Check out this website:
http://www.colichelp.com/shop/baby-aerob ics.html
There are many different things you can do to help your baby (&You) get through this :)

2008-10-21 09:30:59 by worried to death

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I have been looking into this. My stepsister has a friend that owns an all natural store. My baby has really bad gas problems and she gave me a mixture that they make at their store. She gave it to her two kids one had colic, the other had acid reflux and it worked wonders with them within a month and she didn't even have to give it to them after that month. The owner of the stores daughter had horrible acid reflux and they used it on her and cleared her up in a month also. I know it has several different things in it and it's all natural. All of their kids were put on meds from pediatricians and they didn't want to go that route so invented this one. I know if has worked on several babies but I haven't ever done homeopathic remedies before. I know if has probiotics in it and things like that to help digestion. My baby has a horrible time with gas and fussiness.
I ran across the colic calm website and am thinking this is the same thing pretty much and didn't know if anyone has really tried these kind of remedies to help their little ones. I am just tired of my baby hurting all the time after she eats.

Homeopathy has become a marketing term, and the companies that use it make millions of dollars selling mostly placebos and fakery to people who really want to believe. Companies WANT you to think "oh, I've heard about homeopathy for years, so it must work."

What is homeopathy?
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Classical homeopathy originated in the 19th century with Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) as an alternative to the standard medical practices of the day, such as phlebotomy or bloodletting. Hahnemann's theories were based on metaphysical energies rather than on biology, anatomy, chemistry, etc.

Classical homeopathy is generally defined as a system of medical treatment based on the use of infinitesimal amounts of substances that in larger doses produce effects similar to those of the disease being treated. For example, the homeopathic remedy for sleeplessness is a highly diluted dose of caffeine. Hahnemann believed that very small doses of a substance could have very powerful reverse healing effects because their potency could be affected by vigorous and methodical shaking (succussion).

So in other words, if you put a tiny amount of some ingredient in water, then shake it, then dilute it, then shake it more, then dilute it more, eventually you'll have an effective medicine.

Homeopathic dilutions
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Homeopathic dilutions are indicated by letters like X or C. "X" means dilute 10 to 1. So a dilution of 6X means do a 1 in 10 dilution six times. Or, in other words, 1 part ingredient, 1,000,000 parts water (six zeros). "C" means dilute 100 times. So a 6C dilution means 1 part ingredient, 1,000,000,000,000 parts water. You can find many homeopathic remedies available with 30C dilutions - you do the math. And the totally ridiculous bit of advertising - the bigger the dilution, the "stronger" the medication.

Here is a useful table of homeopathic "potentencies" and their dilution rates (0.1ml of original ingredient):
6C = 4 Olympic class swimming-pools.
13C = 3/4 of all Earth's oceans.
16C = Sphere of water the size of Earth.
19C= 10 Spheres with same diameter as our Solar System
22C = 1 cubic light-year
26C = 1 Sphere with same diameter as the Milky Way

Another example, the very popular homeopathic remedy Oscillococcinum 200C is made with a 1 in 100 dilution performed 200 times. That's 1 part ingredient in 1 followed by 400 zeros parts water, then sprinkled on a sugar pill. Now, physics will tell you that there is not a single molecule of duck liver on your sugar pill.

In summary, the homeopaths are scamming you. They're selling you WATER. Or, they're selling you a sugar pill on which water has been sprinkled!!!

Hahnemann came up with his ideas before we knew what molecules were. So when molecular theory came along and proved that many homeopathic remedies didn't have even a single molecule of the original substance, homeopathy proponents like Jacques Benveniste tried to prove that water "remembered" the original ingredient. (1) They never explained how the water "remembered" the homeopathic ingredient but didn't "remember" the copper pipes, glass jars, or fish poop from the lake it came from. (2) Benveniste was completely discredited when it turned out his lab technicians were altering data so that their boss would have positive results.
http://br.geocities.com/criticandokardec /benveniste02.pdf


Do Homeopathic Remedies work?
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Because it has marketing appeal, "Homeopathic" is used as a label on many things, including soothing creams and herbal remedies that are NOT classic homeopathic dilutions. An herbal remedy may work just fine, but it is just like any drug, and should come with all the same testing and warnings as any drug. However, the classic homeopathic dilution liquids and pills do NOT work better than water or sugar pills.

1) Large scale, well-designed studies of homeopathic dilutions find they work no better than placebo. (But don't underestimate the power of a well-delivered placebo to cure somebody's complaint. Just don't use it for cancer or malaria or AIDS, etc.)

2) Many of the people who point to studies and say "See! This study says it works" are pointing to the same set of studies by Reilly published in Lancet in the early 90s. Nobody has been able to independently repeat Dr. Reilly's results.

3) There is a million dollar prize available from JREF for anyone who can show, under reasonable scientific controls, that homeopathic dilutions work better than placebo. The prize has been available for over a decade, and nobody has claimed it. Here is an example of a failed attempt: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s 827502.htm

4) No homeopathic practitioner (or anyone else) can tell the difference between a vial of homeopathic dilution and plain water.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/200 2/homeopathy.shtml

5) James Randi regularly demonstrates homeopathic remedies do nothing by taking an entire bottle of Calms Forte - a homeopathic sleep aid. Even though the box says "warning, don't exceed recommended dosage", the entire bottle of pills has no effect on Randi or on anyone else.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid= 2785985155605802136

In short, homeopathic pills/dilutions don't work any better than sugar pills.

Why does the FDA allow ineffective "medicines" to be sold?
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Because of their long use in the United States, the U.S. Congress passed a law in 1938 declaring that homeopathic remedies are to be regulated by the FDA in the same manner as nonprescription, over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, which means that they can be purchased without a physician's prescription. Today, although conventional prescription drugs and new OTC drugs must undergo thorough testing and review by the FDA for safety and effectiveness before they can be sold, this requirement does not apply to homeopathic remedies. In other words, the FDA gave anything with the words "homeopathic" an exemption from the requirement to demonstrate that they're effective.

Most people know that the herbal remedy St. Johns Wort can reduce the effectiveness of birth control pills. However, unlike herbal remedies, there are no "drug interaction" warnings for homeopathic remedies. Why? Because they don't do anything.


Conclusion:
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If you can be cured by placebo, then by all means, continue supporting the imaginative people who dream up all the different homeopathic remedies. But you should look at the price on the box and ask yourself: Is this a lot to pay for sugar pills and water?

2009-05-22 08:51:39 by Lil Bit