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Daddy Clay: Oh no. Cop: License and proof of insurance please
sir. Sir, do you realize you were speeding? You ran three red lights back there causing
several vehicles to collide into one another. You also ran through the yard of a nursing
home, on sculpting day, jello sculpting day. You ruined three sculptures.
Daddy Clay: Ordinarily, I would really never do anything like that I promise but you see,
I'm teething. Cop: You're teething? Sorry for the inconvenience
sir. You have a good day. Try some Anbesol. Daddy Clay: Thank you.
Daddy Clay: Today's episode is brought to you by BabyBjorn. Just place one of these
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drool damage. BabyBjorn. So as you can see, I'm here by myself without my usual wingman,
Daddy Brad. Because he is at home heroically battling the scourge that is teething. Let's
go pay him a visit. Talk to us a little bit about what your experience with teething has
been. Daddy Brad: Oh Lord. Well, okay, so he popped
the two on the bottom first. Daddy Clay: Yeah.
Daddy Brad: That's about a week per of screaming. Not much sleeping. A little fever. Just cranky.
Then the big old horse teeth that he gets from me up top, the two up top. You gotta
see these things. They're huge. They came out, and they are about the size of Montana.
And we had it must have been like 10 days per of just screaming.
Daddy Clay: So Daddy Brad, why is it do you think, that teething makes kids so irritable
that they start to punch and pinch your face? Daddy Brad: I don't know. Why don't we ask
a doctor. Daddy Clay: Ow.
Mark R. Dickey: Medically speaking, well, we all have teeth. We all need them to be
in our gums and be useful. And when you're born of course, all you've got some gums there.
There really are teeth underneath those gums. They're fully formed in your head and are
trying to erupt through the gum. This is real painful and we notice that because they're
irritable and crabby and they get red gums and they want to chew on just about anything.
Because what they're literally trying to do is split their gum open and get that tooth
to erupt out through. Two really interesting things that happen are sometimes you'll see
kids get a fever and sometimes you'll see kids have diarrhea. So parents of course are
thinking their child is sick from something when in fact, it can be teething. From a medical
point of view, you can use anti-inflammatory drugs. I prefer ibuprofen for this. It comes
in a liquid form for infants. And I believe this is a safe application for this. It's
an anti-inflammatory so it's actually treating the real problem, which is the inflammation
in the gums. Tylenol will take away the pain, but Tylenol is a pain reliever. So it's really
not gonna address that inflammation of the gums that's causing a significant part of
the discomfort. You can use ice. Ice, obviously, is pretty numbing. You can freeze vegetables.
You can cut up vegetables. You can cut up fruit. And there are mesh bags for sale for
this very purpose. Tough enough to where they wouldn't cut the mesh so that you would have
chokeable size objects. But also permeable enough to where that soothing cold is right
on the gum. If you take chamomile tea and make ice cubes out of it, you can crush those
up into crushed ice and that's also another really good thing to use. Get them a toothbrush.
Get them a little baby toothbrush. And when they're teething, one of the things you can
try is rubbing their gum with a toothbrush. And they might do it themselves. Probably
the first and easiest thing that you can do to alleviate the pain is to take their mind
off it by changing the environment. Often you'll find that moving from air condition
to outside, from outside to in the car, these kinds of things, when you really distract
them by environmental change, often that takes their mind off of it. But many of these things
works. I'd say try two and three and four of them. Pick the low hanging fruit. Do the
easiest stuff first. If that seems to do the trick, you're great. You don't have to buy
anything extra right? But if you have to go forward and get some of things, I think ibuprofen
is a good thing to have around no matter what. Daddy Clay: I got to be honest, teething is
one of the things that I do not miss. But if you're in the middle of it and got horror
stories or tips or tricks to deal with a teething baby, please leave us a comment on this video
or go to DadLabs.com and join the conversation there. We want to thank our sponsors BabyBjorn.
This little spoon and plate set perfect for the teething baby. BabyBjorn. We'll see you
next time here in The Lab. Brad?