Home remedies · Children & infants
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Give a cooled teething ring or a damp, chilled flannel to chew; gently rub the gum.
Cold numbs slightly, and chewing pressure eases the tension in the jaw.
Teething does not cause high fever or heavy diarrhoea — assuming it does makes it easy to miss an illness.
No teething rings from the freezer — too hard and too cold. No numbing teething gels, no amber necklaces: both are dangerous, necklaces also as a strangulation and choking risk.
At once: any fever in an infant under three months, a child who is apathetic or has stopped drinking, skin bleeding that does not fade under pressure, breathlessness or drawn-in ribs. A first seizure is always looked at. Refusing to drink for hours counts for more than the temperature.