Wobbles

Who uses calpol? & how often I mean how do you know they need it? I've known Mums to use it on a regular basis but Ive never paid much attention to what its for! Is it safe for an incase moment? And people swear it helps baby sleep

elles28

I would use it when they have temp or teething/ pain e.t.c every 4 - 6 hrs....When my 2 were babies I used the portavougie teething mixture (I wondered had you heard of it from living in NI?) Anyway it was taken off the market as it was found to contain dodgy ingedients......but boy did it help them sleep!!

KX

Wobbs, Calpol have taken OUT all the ingredients that aid kids sleep and have brought out a new Calpol Night Time-its a money making scam.

We have given it to lucy on the odd occassion when she had ear infection, high temperature etc. But Medised is much better for aiding sleep. ANd sleep=quicker recovery!

xx

sweetsammi

As far as i know calpol is basically the baby version of paracetomol. Its for pain and temperatures..but i know what u mean wobbles..how do u know when your baby actually needs it for pain..its not like they can tell u lol. My mum gave it to my little brother all the time and swore by the stuff and yeah it did help him sleep for some reason! ( i assume it made him drowsy)He had it cus he would never settle he would just cry all night long from the age of 6months onwards. Turned out he has mis-shaped cartillage in his knees that caused him pain so he always had calpol for it...Problem was as he got older he wouldnt sleep without the stuff-even when he wasnt in pain! I guess he became addicted to calpol! LMAO. It does taste really nice though! I don't think our babies are old enough to have it yet though are they wobbs? x

Dippy Yvanne

i prefer medised to calpol i find it brings temp down quicker and as kx said, sleepy baby

bexxie

You can give Calpol from 1 month onwards. i use Medised as much better I think and yup = sleep,lol

B.x

Naimi

Medised is a life saver !!! When Lucy (now 4) was teething I don't think I could have lived without it. However she hates it now because it doesn't taste as nice as calpol and she's not being fooled anymore because she knows the colour I agree though, it does bring down their temperature faster and the anti-hystamine (sp?) in it to help with runny noses and coughs really helps them sleep.

Jo

Another Medised fan here
I just use it for temps teething etc... or even if he is bunged with cold

Me and OH argue reguarly( friendly LOL) about Calpol= sleeping babies, its basically paracetomol so don't see how it helps sleep

Tilly

I always have a bottle on stand by but rarely use it, I think we've used 1 whole bottle in her life. I hate people that use it just to make their babys sleep - my mum told me she used to know quite a few people that did that.

The only times Bethanie has had it is when she was teething and couldn't sleep because of the pain and when she has had her immunisations.

Naimi

Medised actually contains something that makes them sleep whereas Calpol is just paracetamol (apart from the night time one, which like someone else said, a scam to make you buy 2 types of their product) so maybe Calpol is more a placebo, but hey, whatever helps ! if I do want something that doesn't make the drowsy, I buy a pharmacy own brand of paracetamol, Calpol costs a fortune !