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Besides medication, clinicians say some parents use a homeopathic remedy called gripe water.

Experts warn that there’s a potential that gripe water products may contain unintended, unsafe ingredients, particularly for products made outside the U.S.

Herendeen recommends parents planning to purchase gripe water do so at U.S. pharmacies, while neither Barth nor Herendeen actively steer parents toward using gripe water.

Though it doesn’t contain simethicone, gripe water often contains trace drops of ginger, which is supposed to help soothe stomach indigestion, Herendeen says.

It was one of the original ingredients of gripe water.