Teething Terrors Teething is a big challenge for both babies and parents.
Babies are cranky and cry when they're cutting new teeth, and it's no picnic for parents, either.
They must deal with a baby who's hard to comfort. Ohio doctors recently concluded a study that challenges some of the accepted notions about teething. Even though parents and doctors believe that diarrhea and fever are linked to teething, this study showed that they are not. The doctors had parents track their babies' symptoms and found that symptoms such as drooling, biting and fever only occurred about 20 percent more often when children were teething than they did at other times. Children did have decreased appetite and a slight fever on the day the teeth actually broke through gums, but doctors found no link between teething and diarrhea.