Colief Infant Drops

Advantages: Baby's happiness, baby's comfort, reduces colic and really works.
Disadvantages: Very expensive, but is available on perscription if your doctor will give you it.

...mother and baby group suggested colief I was ready to give anything a try. I couldn't believe the price of it though. Colief costs £9.99 and that is for a 7ml small bottle. The thing is it lasts for about a month because you only need to put 2 drops in every feed. The making up of the milk becomes more difficult because you have to put it in every feed in a certain way. It has to go in at least 4 hours before the feed is given to your baby. Formula ...
...2. Add two drops of Colief Infant Drops, shake gently and refrigerate for approx. four hours, to allow the Colief to work (Do not keep milk treated with Colief for more than 12 hours). 3. Reheat bottle and use as normal. Breast Feeding 1. Try expressing a few teaspoonfuls into a small-sterilised container. 2. Add 4 drops of Colief 3. Give this to your baby on a sterilised plastic teaspoon, 4. Continue breast-feeding as normal. As long as you follow ... Read review

Advantages: Stops colic in my experience
Disadvantages: Expensive. Bottle only lasts 3 weeks.

...the most expensive medicine - Colief Infant Drops (£10.99) for a small bottle. And it worked! Here's how it works, what happened and what you do: ** WHAT IS COLIEF? ** Listen up, because the biology behind how it works is a bit complicated! Colief is a bottle of Lactase Enzyme Drops. It has an active ingredient called lactase, a safe enzyme that occurs naturally within the body. All dairy products, including infant formulas and breast milk, contain ...
...When you add Colief infant drops to your baby's usual milk, you greatly reduce the level of lactose because the Colief breaks down the lactose into glucose and galactose, before you feed your baby. Studies have shown that the hours of crying may be greatly reduced when babies are fed their usual milk treated with Colief. You can begin using Colief infant drops safely from birth onwards. Use Colief every time you feed your baby as long as the symptoms ... Read review

Advantages: If your baby has Transient Lactose Intolerance this will work amazingly well
Disadvantages: Pricey. Must be kept in cold so travelling is a pain

...defenders) that something was done. Colief was suggested and we tracked some down in Boots that day. By the evening feed it was like we had a new baby. Other reviews have explained how the stuff works, as does their website, but for us the combination of screaming after feeds (especially short fussy, high lactose, feeds) foamy poo and virtually no weight gain by 6 weeks (cos baby couldnt get as much nourishment from milk as she needed, up to 40% ...
...take expressing kit and the Colief (which must be kept cool) so the kit/hassle demands are higher. If you are unsure about whether this would help your baby when the 'normal' treatments don't work, then google will find some good articles that describe symptoms and diagnosis. Our only issue now is to get the health care professionals to accept that transient lactose intolerance (TLI) exists and is treatable so others dont get treated as we did ... Read review

Advantages: no more colic
Disadvantages: expensive

...The price of the Colief was nearly enough to put me off - £9.99 for a measly 7ml (a tiny, tiny bottle) but decided to give it a go for the sake of my sanity. We tried it over the weekend and was disappointed to find that it didn't work straight away, but by the Sunday evening she was like a different baby. She poo'd without straining and crying and was altogether a much more placid, smiley baby. The Colief contains lactase which breaks down the ...
...anyway), add two drops of Colief to a warm bottle, then refrigerate. The disadvantages (apart from the price) are that poos become runny, but that's better than a constipated baby. My little girl is now nearly 4 months old and as her gut is maturing and making it's own lactase I'm cutting down the number of drops in a bottle - it's now 1 drop per bottle. I will then decrease the amount to 1 drop every other bottle. I've only just started my fourth ... Read review

Advantages: It really works! (and it's available on prescription)
Disadvantages: Needs to be added to milk 4 hours in advance

...I add 2 drops of colief to each bottle of milk, 4 hours in advance. These took a lot of getting used to, but believe me it is worth the effort. It took a few days to work but when it did, the screaming lessened dramatically and my baby seemed in less pain. She still has a lot of wind, but it doesn't hurt her so much. The website of the product is very informative and does all the science bit. I order the product online and it usually arrives the ...
...have a help line but I have never needed to use it. My baby's poo started to resemble that of a breast fed baby and became less smelly (sorry if that is too much information!). The bottle lasts me about 2 weeks as my baby is still on 6 bottles a day. The dose is 2 drops per bottle, no matter what the size. It can also be given to breast fed babies, I don't have personal experience of this but my friends tell me it works just as well. I would (and ... Read review