Ibuprofen and calpol

Daughter is 5 months. Shes teething and in pain. She had calpol around 8.30pm which helped for a little while. She’s crying again with her teeth and can’t have anymore calpol yet. Can she have ibuprofen now? Also using teething gel but not making much difference.

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I'm sure it's every 4 hours for both paracetamol and ibuprofen I'd say yeah but you'll have to look into it a little more as I don't want to give the wrong advice x

@Lucy Sky thank you. I’ve had a quick look on nhs website and says if she has had calpol, she can have ibuprofen after an hour. Then I think it’s 4 hourly after that but either use one or the other. She’s settled again now don’t really want to use the ibuprofen too unless I really have to. May check with HV tomorrow or call the pharmacy and check x

Each one is four hourly however you can alternate them so she’s having one every two hours so she’s always covered by pain relief - eg paracetamol at 8:30, ibuprofen at 10:30, paracetamol at 12:30. We found ibuprofen worked much better for teething than paracetamol and teething gel. The most effective for our girl was Anbesol liquid, however I think it’s for 6 months plus (I could be wrong however - it’s been a while!)

@Bec thank you this is really helpful x