{"id":9338,"date":"2019-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/a-popular-baby-teething-gel-has-been-taken-off-the-market\/"},"modified":"2019-05-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T00:00:00","slug":"a-popular-baby-teething-gel-has-been-taken-off-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/a-popular-baby-teething-gel-has-been-taken-off-the-market\/","title":{"rendered":"A Popular Baby Teething Gel Has Been Taken Off The Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The popular Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s teething gel will be discontinued following a small number of incidents overseas where young children were harmed when they overdosed on one of the gel\u2019s ingredients.<\/h3>\n<p>According to the WCH\u2019s Usha Ritchie:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cInternational and Australian medicines organisations warn against using the local anaesthetic lidocaine in products for infant teething.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know there have been a number of presentations to the WCH emergency department linked to the consumption of too much lidocaine from teething gel, however no children in South Australia have had any serious adverse effects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Recommended alternatives for children experiencing teething pain include teething rings, a cold cloth to bite or something safe to chew on.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">**HEALTH ALERT &#8211; Teething Gel Ban** The popular Women&#39;s &amp; Children&#39;s Hospital Teething Gel is set to be discontinued after a &#39;small number of incidents&#39; overseas where children were harmed. The latest in 7NEWS at 4pm and 6pm. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/7NEWS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#7NEWS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q60YgIOjOk\">https:\/\/t.co\/Q60YgIOjOk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 7NEWS Adelaide (@7NewsAdelaide) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7NewsAdelaide\/status\/1130656010006228993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s teething gel will be discontinued following a small number of incidents overseas where young children were harmed when they overdosed on one of the gel\u2019s ingredients. According to the WCH\u2019s Usha Ritchie: \u201cInternational and Australian medicines organisations warn against using the local anaesthetic lidocaine in products for infant teething. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Popular Baby Teething Gel Has Been Taken Off The Market - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/a-popular-baby-teething-gel-has-been-taken-off-the-market\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Popular Baby Teething Gel Has Been Taken Off The Market\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The popular Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s teething gel will be discontinued following a small number of incidents overseas where young children were harmed when they overdosed on one of the gel\u2019s ingredients. 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