Infacol VS Colief???

Hi Ladies, please can I have some opinions regarding the above 2? Has anyone used both. So my little boy suffers from both constipation and colic hes now 7 weeks old and is unfortunately being feed completely on SMA pro (ill be transitioning to Kendamil soon). I started off giving him gripe water (which helped a Little) but progressed to infacol following advice from others. I've noticed that Infacol isn't doing as much as it did and that it's also causing constipation to worsen. What's colief like? Is it essentially the same as infacol or is it more effective? Or does it combat other things as well as colic? Thanks in advance x x

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I do Infacol before every feed to help with gas and two drops colief in milk to help ease colic symptoms x

Colief is supposed to break down the lactose in the milk to make it easier for baby to digest and infacol is supposed to turn smaller bubbles of gas into bigger ones so that they pass easier. Because they do different things they can be used together. I found colief to be a right pain as it needs to be added a half hour before feed which is near on impossible if you are going off feeding cues.

Hey, i had the same issue and Infacol made my little boy so constipated so i had to stop using it! I now use colief which is amazing, however you have to put the drops in the bottle 30mins before baby drinks it so can be a mess about but worth it as he’s like a different baby now X

Hey! My LOs colic was so bad we used both. Infacol before a feed and the drops in the milk. We used this consistently for weeks and now he is finally out of his colic stage and not using any anymore! :)

Drops worked very well for us x

My daughter is 7 weeks and we have been battling with constipation and straining a lot when pooing for the last 4/5 weeks, we were told by the midwife to use infacol but we felt it isn’t do anything so we moved to colief and she was going once a day with no over straining issues, we then took her off it for a week to see if she was able to digest it better herself now she was a little older and we noticed she was blocked up again for almost a week so we starting using colief again and she’s back to her happy self! Defo a good call - I make my bottles up two at a time so I only use 2 drops rather than 4 to try save a bit of money on buying the bottles x

We use dentinox as we found infocol stopped working after a couple of weeks. It’s really helped our little man x

I've given my little man some dentinox today for the 1st time, and it's a miracle, no uncomfort at all x x

And you can add it to their bottle…. Amazing 😁😁😁

do you warm up the milk with a bottle warmer?

how many drops did you put in the milk? And was this still 30 mins before?

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