Care of baby teeth is really important, because tooth decay not only affects the beauty, but also causes pain to the child, leading to decreased appetite, psychological irritability, etc. Therefore, preventive measures should be taken in daily life to avoid the occurrence of tooth decay.
Next, the editor will count the bad habits that hurt teeth more than eating candy, so that parents no longer have to worry about their babies' "harm teeth".
1 Drink cough syrup without rinsing your mouth
Cough syrup is a drug with a large amount of sugar, which can cause to dental caries . This "invisible" sugar is often ignored. Especially some mothers like to give their babies medicine before going to bed, which makes it easier for these sugars to accumulate in their babies' mouth for a long time, causing tooth decay.
So, after taking cough syrup and throat lozenges, you must urge your baby to rinse his mouth and brush his teeth!
2 Alternately eat cold food
The teeth are particularly sensitive to temperature response. Under the stimulation of hot and hot, the baby's fragile teeth can easily cause symptoms of soreness. This type of tooth allergic and soreness can easily slowly develop into pulpitis, apical periarthritis , etc. It is recommended that mothers not let the baby chew ice cubes as much as possible. It is best to help the baby cool the food first when eating hot pot in autumn and winter.
The food placed in the mouth is "over the lips but not hot" to avoid toothache caused by toothbrush from the baby's mouth due to excessive cold or overheating.
3 Drink milk and juice before going to bed
Milk lactose content is large, and the juice contains even higher sugar content. These sugars are the most likely to cause dental caries in the baby's mouth.
In addition, milk residues remain in the mouth and can easily cause bacteria to damage the teeth. If you sleep directly without cleaning after drinking milk, it is easy to cause tooth decay due to the long-term accumulation of sugar.
4 Open things with teeth
Baby like to learn from adults to bite the bottle cap with their teeth. Although the baby's powerful teeth successfully bit open the bottle cap, they did not know that the teeth may have hidden cracks. This "small problem" often begins to be unaware. As the cracks gradually deepen, they begin to feel pain and discomfort when chewing, and the situation is becoming increasingly serious.
Although smaller babies can't bite the bottle cap, they also like to tear the packaging with their teeth. In fact, this makes it easy to get into the bacteria on the packaging, and disease enters from the mouth.
5 Tooth molar
Baby grinding teeth frequently, which can easily cause premature wear of teeth, exposing dentin, causing dentin allergies, and strong pain will occur when stimuli such as hot, cold, sweet and sour.
If the baby's teeth are severely worn, the teeth height is lowered, and the facial muscles are over-fatigue, temporomandibular joint disorder syndrome will occur. When talking, singing or eating, the baby's jaw joints and local muscles will feel sore, and even has difficulty opening the mouth .
6 Overeating
Blush eating, excessive intake of fatty, spicy, fried and other foods can easily cause damage to the spleen and stomach, indigestion, oral ulcers, erosion in the corners of the mouth, etc. In addition, if you have poor rest, the amount and frequency of eating are also increased a lot compared to usual, which will induce acute attacks of inflammation and cause tooth pain.
So, you must control your baby's eating habits, achieve balanced nutrition, and eat in moderation, and do not let your baby become a "slave" of food.
7 Love snacks
When eating snacks, the mouth secretes less saliva, and food is more likely to remain on the teeth. Especially starchy food . Babies eat less snacks and have no effect on their bodies, so parents should have a relatively fixed amount and time to eat snacks for their children.
It is generally not allowed to eat before meals and before going to bed, especially before going to bed at night, you should not let your children eat snacks such as cakes, candies, etc.If the baby has to eat some snacks before going to bed due to hunger, after eating, they must urge them to brush their teeth or rinse their mouths to clean their teeth and mouth, otherwise it will easily cause dental caries.
