Infacol and Gripe water together?

[sar35]

Do you know if you can give infacol at the beginning of a feed and then gripe water at the end? Or can they not be used together

 

[Mum2bewaiting]

I asked the pharmacist this one as colic suddenly got worse and got told to take lo to GP just to get him checked over, no advice on combining the 2 but we switched to colief which was the bees knees, we were able to get it on prescription

 

[Samemka]

I asked the pharmacist and she said no, but rather because you shouldn't need to use them both together. I totally understand though as my LO has been through infacol, gripe water & we're now on dentinox colic drops.....nothing works.

I did google though and most websites do say you can use them both together if necessary, although I wouldn't take what I read online as gospel.

 

[sar35]

I asked the pharmacist and she said no, but rather because you shouldn't need to use them both together. I totally understand though as my LO has been through infacol, gripe water & we're now on dentinox colic drops.....nothing works.

I did google though and most websites do say you can use them both together if necessary, although I wouldn't take what I read online as gospel.

thanks, we have found that if he doesnt have the infacol he is sick and last night he was having bad pains so we got some gripe water to give him after the feed. He has gaviscon in his milk too!

 

[Cat lady]

We found infacol, we found it worked better than all the others and believe me - we tried! One hv said the two musnt be given together, another said it was fine. As a compromise we gave infacol every feed (Thomas is breastfed) and gripe water when things were really bad!!

The only thing I would be concerned about is giving both with gaviscon. I dont know whether infacol and gaviscon contraindicate eachother. I would definately speak to your doctor about that.
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