If you’ve ever tried to soothe a desperate, drooling, gnawing baby, you know that nothing about teething is Instagram-worthy.

Yet one trendy treatment has captured many parents’ attention and social-media accounts. It’s the amber teething necklace: a tot-sized, beaded bauble that supposedly relieves throbbing gums naturally, by releasing pain-killing succinic acid into the bloodstream. The photo-friendly trinket even has its own hashtag: #amberteethingnecklace currently has more than 36,000 entries on the photo-sharing platform.

The only problem? The so-called cure is nothing short of deadly, says the US Food and Drug Administration.

In December, the government agency officially denounced the teething necklace as a safety risk, responsible for causing anything from mouth injuries to choking and strangulation. The American Academy of Pediatrics quickly shared the report, adding that it recommends letting little ones chew on hard rubber teething rings to ease discomfort.

But that hasn’t stopped parents and purveyors from promoting the new-age necklaces on Instagram and Twitter. Mom-fluencers still post softly lit pictures of their tots wearing the eye-catching accessories.

Hazards aside, do these woo-woo accessories actually help? Probably not, says Dr. Robin Jacobson, a pediatrician at NYU Langone Pediatric Associates.

“There’s no medical evidence that it really works,” Jacobson tells The Post. Although succinic acid is in fact anti-inflammatory, and some — but not all — amber beads contain it, the idea that it seeps through a teething child’s skin, and into their blood, is beyond unlikely, she says.

“The temperature that [amber] needs to be heated to release it is so high . . . just putting it on your 98.6-degree body isn’t going to necessarily release the acid,” she explains.

Even if the necklaces did work, Jacobson agrees with the FDA that parents are taking a big risk when they put jewelry on babies and toddlers.

“They are dangerous,” she says. “Babies put everything in their mouths, and they can break off, [and] kids can choke on them. If you’re not watching, they can get strangled with them.”

So what’s the doctor-approved remedy for teething pain?

Jacobson recommends letting little ones chomp on frozen, wet washcloths, or massaging their gums with soothing, room temperature camomile tea. For tougher times, there’s always baby Tylenol.

She also urges parents to be patient: Even teething comes to an end sometime.