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Customer Review
Reviewed in Canada on May 4, 2020
This works perfectly about 95% of the time. If my son is fussy, gassy, or won’t eat even when he is hungry, I give him this by itself in a bottle and he takes it right away, presumably because he likes the taste. Once in a blue moon, if he is extra fussy, I need to coax him to take it. Once he drinks it, he instantly calms down, as in the very second he drink the last sip, at the latest. It does not knock him out. It is not harmful so I don’t feel guilty using it. It just calms him down so he can resume drinking his formula and then go to sleep. There have been maybe a couple times when he did not get calm instantly. I had to coax him to take his formula after the gripe water. He felt better after 30-60 seconds in these cases. This gripe water is basically magic. I have tried other gripe waters with my first baby and they either didn’t work or they knocked her out due to harmful ingredients. Now this one does have sodium bicarbonate, and some websites say that is bad, but it is ok within the recommended doses, and aids in digestion by helping the tummy feel better. It reduces acidity in the stomach. Too much can cause the opposite problem, so just don’t overdose, that’s all. It does cause foul smelling farts, however, but it’s worth it. I find that switching formulas is very effective at reducing gripe as well. If your baby is using a formula that doesn’t work the best for him/her, this will help for sure until you find the right one. However, it’s not just gassiness that this helps with, unlike antiflatulants like Ovol. This helps no matter why the baby is fussy during/after a feed.
