We think that Lilly has started teething and our pediatrician told us that we can mix equal parts maalox and liquid benadryl and then put it on her gums for pain relief. I thought it sounded kind of weird but decided to go ahead and get the stuff anyway. So, I went to get the stuff after leaving the gym. While on my way Derek called to tell me that Lilly was hungry and at the end of her rope and that I needed to hurry. So now I am frantically running through Wal-Mart to get this stuff. However, when I get to the pharmacy department I can't find either of them. Wal-Mart literally does not have them! So I then call Derek's mom, our pediatric nurse to see if there is anything that can be used to substitute them.
Thirty minutes later after almost leaving the store with nothing and reading tiny active ingredient print, I walk out with the Equate brand liquid antacid in cooling mint flavor and children's Equate brand allergy liquid in cherry flavor. By the time I got home Derek had already given her a bottle so all of my crazy frantic running was pretty much useless. Then, when we start to mix the stuff together we decide to read all the ingredients. After discovering that the liquid antacid has aluminum, sodium benzoate and multiple parabens, we decided not to use it! So my late night trip to Wal-Mart really was useless, except I did by stuff to make myself a sandwich for dinner.
Instead of using the mint-cherry poison concoction, we did a little on-line research and gave her a rag soaked in chamomile tea and a frozen waffle to chew on for a minute. I think the tea worked even though she didn't love its taste and she loved the waffle but, it was a little labor intensive because I kept having to rotate it when the part she was chewing on became thawed. Fun times!
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