What is the risk of overdosing on Hyland’s Teething Gel?
There is very little risk of overdosing. Hyland’s Teething Gel contains the homeopathic medicine Belladonna, which is used to treat inflammation on the gum. Belladonna is used by conventional medicine in a very different form, in much larger doses, and can have significant side effects, requiring the medicine to be dispensed by prescription. Conventional medicine extracts the “Belladonna alkaloids” from the plant rather than using the whole plant, and uses the alkaloids in doses of 0.5 to 2.0 mg as an antispasmodic. In Hyland’s Teething Gel the pure Belladonna whole plant is diluted by a ration of 1:10, 12 times serially in order to prepare the Teething Gel, so the amount of Belladonna whole plant is very small (less that 1 part per billion). This compares to the 0.00000003 mg Belladonna alkaloid in an entire 1/3 oz. tube of Teething Gel, or 0.000000045 mg in an entire ½ oz. tube, which gives it a large margin of safety. The product will not produce any toxicity even if multiple tubes
