Gripe water

Hey, just a quick question what do you think of giving your baby Gripe Water?
Someone recommended it to us, we used it a few times in much lower dose than advised. Made our boy vomit a lot so we stopped using it.
However, yesterday our boy was struggling with constipation and trapped gas so we decided to give him some. Literally, 0.5ml as I still have those 1ml syringes for colostrum. Recommended dose is 5ml up to 6 times a day. We gave one tenth of it!
It worked, he pooped and we had a good night.
He was still a bit gassy this morning so I decided to use it again: I fed him as normal, burped him, waited 10 minutes and gave him another 0.5ml. Two minutes later he farted everything that was bothering him and was happy... until now.
Three hours after gripe water he keeps vomiting acid (too pale to be milk). We even had another feed just about an hour ago...

How can it be so wonderful and so horrible at the same time... Or am I doing something wrong? If such a low dose bothers him so much, I'm scared to give him more.

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We give gripe water daily. Normally in her bottle before bedtime as I feel it helps her with trapped gas and sometimes has helped her poo! We’ve not had any issues

I dip my sons dummy in the bottle and it seems to help with gas without giving him too much

Following too as I'm scared to give it...sounds vile and she doesn't even like the orange infacol 😅😂

We dip his dummy in too and seems to work for us! Giving him 5mls just made him more gassy

we give the 5ml when she’s extra gassy/seeming fussy and it helps tonnes. It’s recommended to give 30 mins or more after a feed so it settles in the tummy/doesn’t make them too full because if they’ve just had a full feed they’ll most likely be sick and the gripe water won’t take effect because their wee belly is already full xx

does your LO take the bottle ok with the gripe water in it, doesn't put them off with the taste? We've tried giving it on its own and to say our girl hated it is an understatement - did get a massive burp out of her though so would like to keep giving it!

doesn’t bother her at all, we tend to give it once a day before bed in her bottle.

Or we put it in a teat and she’ll drink it that way also

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