Gripe Water Serious Danger
Please read!!!
So last night I had the biggest scare of my life! After feeding Atlas-Odin I gave him gripe water which on the label states suitable from 4 weeks old.
He then began choking and went blue then purple and then floppy and non responsive for 10 whole minutes before the ambulance arrived. All my 1st aid training was taken over with the panic after a few mins of back slaps over the knee doing nothing to help. I was literally screaming in the street and banging on doors for help, thankfully I have amazing neighbours who helped me to save his life when i was convinced he had already died.
We spent 6 hours in the hospital and I was luckily enough to take him back home last night not that I slept from sitting watching him sleep to make sure he was breathing.
Anyway in the hospital the Dr who was treating him said that although gripe water says on the bottle suitable from 4 weeks he would never recommend it to be used on a baby less than 3 months old and it’s not uncommon for babies to choke on it.
Nowhere is this written on the product and it nearly cost my son his life so please share this information with any new mums you may know, I wouldn’t wish anybody to experience what we went through with Atlas-Odin yesterday those images of him in that state will haunt me forever!
Edit: A few people have questioned how he managed to choke on gripe water and the explanation given at the hospital was that it would have been due to the taste. It doesn’t have a nice fruity flavour like infacol and other children’s medicines infact it has a harsh taste that on the bottle it states most babies dont like. The taste hitting the back of their throat can cause the choking response.
Edit: some people seem to be assuming that it was how the gripe water was administered that caused Atlas-Odin to choke. Doctors confirmed this was not the case I used a 1ml syringe giving no more than 0.1ml at a time it is due to taste. If ur baby likes the taste they obviously havent choked but that doesn’t dismiss that many others do so if anyone would like to promote gripe water please write your own post rather than doing so on mine as my child nearly died!
