Posts Tagged ‘mouth’

Many Benefits of Finger Food for Your Toddler

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

There are many benefits gained by giving your baby finger foods, among them:

  • Learn to feed themselves, Hold and enter their own food into the mouth is one way of learning for your child to feed themselves. Later this will get you feeling confident that he is able to do baby feeding activity itself, no need to be fed again.
  • Starting the first solid food. Providing finger food can also be classified as coach of complementary feeding. It’s just a more specific form which can be grasped by little hands.
  • Stimulate the baby’s fine motor. When a baby holding a finger food with his fingers, followed by pushing them into the mouth, actually classed as providing stimulus for the development of fine motor baby. Especially reflex to hold.
  • Stimulates tooth growth ahead teething Generally, babies will experience itching in the gums. Providing finger food can stimulate the growth of teeth, while reducing the itching arises because generally have the texture of finger foods.
  • Granting Exploration finger food tastes can also be used as a medium to introduce the diverse taste of food in infants. So that the child will be loved by a wide variety of food flavors.

Get Toddler Brush Teeth

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Some mother complained about her son often refused to brush his teeth. Especially in the morning and at night before bed. Of course there is the cause of this rejection. One of the most significant factors is the habit. If your child is not accustomed to clean his mouth early on, do not be surprised if someday he did not feel uncomfortable if they do not brush my teeth.

For her to the Mother should be diligent in cleaning the oral cavity since a baby. That way she will feel uncomfortable if his mouth was not clean. Easy to do so, follow these steps:

  • take a small gauze pads and wrap the fingers
  • Gauze pads soaked in lukewarm water
  • Rubbed into all parts of the oral cavity

Because he is used to clean the oral cavity itself he will be diligent in cleaning the teeth later. After entering the 3 year old Mother can start introducing tools for cleaning teeth. Select a brush with soft bristles to the teeth and gums are not injured. May also buy a toothbrush with a unique and funny. This can add excitement brushing their teeth.

Should Using Toothpaste?

There are some types of toothpaste for children, but the dentist should advise your child not to use toothpaste first. The reason is of course because the chemical constituents contained in it are feared the child could swallow.

With increasing age the ability to gargle and swallow a little too much better. We should try to give this Mother of toothpaste (select marked safe for toddlers) to him. Do not worry too much just enough to give a little on the tip of the brush.

Tips:

  • Create a pleasant atmosphere while brushing your teeth, for example, while singing. So the little one does not need forced the fact may be traumatizing for him.
  • Can also perform ritual brushing your teeth with Mother, Father and his brother.

Stimulation For Children Brain Growth

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Infant growth and brain development occurs only in the first months after birth, hence the need for optimum growth and brain development in children is very important for parents. For, in addition to food, stimulation is something that can not be ignored.

The stimulation may be to improve children’s intelligence as soon as possible and as much as possible retained. In fact, if possible, since the stimulation is the fetus in the uterus. Stimulation of these two directions, and we urge all potential and existing talent in young children, a good knowledge of mathematics, art, languages and related skills.

The question: “What kind of stimulation, which must be done to encourage parents of children, their intelligence?”

The stimulation is something to do to be intelligent children develops optimally. Formed in the preparation of the stimulation, “meilinisasi” or the formation of the nerve sheath of the brain is faster. More stimulation is given to form the neurons of the industry. This led to communication between brain cells, the better. The stimulation can be performed in children under five years:

sense of sight

Newborns can see objects both at a distance of 25 cm. More than one object will appear blurry. In the first weeks after birth, babies are only interested in objects in black and white.

Sensory stimulation in this vision will see a baby in different shapes, sizes and colors. Babies are very interested in this stimulation. Also going to try to reach an order has revealed. This proves the existence of coordination between the eyes with his hand movements.

To promote, you can see the parents, colored objects or toys from them. Once these objects in the vicinity, try not to over one meter. Notice how he will try to touch and hold the object and place it in your mouth. Therefore, parents should really pay attention to cleaning objects that are used.

If this stimulation still exist, when the baby begins to learn to focus their vision and their distance from the screen. When the baby to try to achieve these goals, started and aim to maintain or shook it, it means that babies not only to coordinate the direction of the face with his hand movements, but also learn to learn to train the fine motor skills.

To stimulate the senses of hearing babies, parents can not always buy the toy stores. Boxes or color postcards can be used for children to explore. Young children do not need many toys, but more important is the stimulation can influence.

Toys that can be understood, colorful, remove noise, like music that helps kids to focus, coordinate hands and knows the shape and size.

Hearing
Hearing can be done in several ways, for example, broadcast classical music. This can be done in the morning. This stimulation during childhood in a state of relaxation.

We need to talk to small children is a very effective way to stimulate the senses of hearing. So parents are confronted, as far as possible in the vicinity of babies. Move your eyes in the eye while speaking. In addition to the stimulation of hearing children, these simple rituals of parents to their children develop emotional closeness.

When talking with children, parents have also learned to take it to communicate. The use of words with soft words and easy to understand, for example, frequently used in everyday conversation. How to react if the child is with what appeared to react said of parents.

Listen to fairy tales is also the best way to stimulate the senses of hearing children. Parents can read the stories and their own words or a book. Whether you are obliged to repeat history. These repetitions actually stimulate the nerve to remember the children.

Smell Sense
Believe it or not, the baby of smell works correctly in the first weeks of his birth. He loved the smell of milk. How to easily find the nipple mother. Therefore, excessive sensory stimulation is not recommended, because children learn naturally.

The feel
Give physical contact of the child is a good way to encourage young children. Gentle massage can also be done for children will be comfortable. Pats and hugs to promote and ensure the safety of young children. There is nothing wrong if parents know how the massage is good and just for this purpose.

Another way you can do is to invite children to learn to walk barefoot; you can provide the stimulus for the sense of touch. In this way, the children the difference when walking on the floor, carpet, grass, or matte feel.

In addition, provide toys for children of different materials such as flannel, silk or wool, children understand and feel the different textures of each material. Let the children have toys and games.

Taste
the key to training, if the parents give to certain types of foods, including sweets. But do not give you five foods with extreme flavors, like spicy or bitter taste, because taste can interfere with digestion.

Even for the child to suck his fingers. This is usually stimulated the senses of taste buds of children. Finger-sucking is a common cause, children under three months. Even until the age of seven months, these children are accustomed. But must be stopped before that age, the usual.

Sometimes children like to chew things, as he has reached. You’ll taste the difference with a feeling of fingers to feel the object. It is, of course, learning self-stimulation of the senses of taste children.

First Aid Nosebleeds in Children

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Nosebleeds or medical terminology is epistaksis very common in children, but many parents are frightened and confused when his son was found bleeding from the nose. Nosebleed itself is not a disease but a symptom of a disease, means can be bleeding because of various causes mild to severe.

The nosebleeds are symptoms that occur, epistaxis due to local disease of the nasal cavity or because of abnormalities that may occur in other parts of the body. disturbance to local trauma such as nose picking, fall, shock, foreign body in the nose, and irritation that stimulates the gas.

Another cause is an infection of the nose and surrounding organs, tumors, whether benign or malignant changes, sudden environmental changes such as air pressure suddenly pilots and divers in a foreign nose without authorization and other causes are known with certainty.

Although abnormalities in other parts of the body, can cause bleeding from the nose, including diseases of the heart and blood vessels, such as high blood pressure and blood vessel diseases, blood diseases, such as lower levels of blood platelets, disorders of blood coagulation, leukemia. Other diseases that cause bleeding, infection through the body, such as dengue fever, hormonal disorders and congenital anomalies.

First nosebleeds help children

1. leaned slightly forward and breathe through the mouth meeting. (If you sleep on your back, increase blood flow to the top-heavy and the blood is swallowed)
2. Press the front of your child’s nose for five minutes and a cold compress or ice on the nose
3. If still bleeding after five minutes, take it to your doctor or the emergency room of the hospital

Prevention

* Do not pick your nose too hard
* Do not pull the mucus, as
* Avoid smoke / gas / chemicals

First Aid for Babies Choking

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Young children can easily put into eating something that has not been able to chew or swallow food, the size is too small. And indeed, some foods hurt a son popular when it comes to the respiratory tract. For example, nuts, popcorn, raw carrots, candy, wine, cheese, cubes, etc.
Some symptoms that stifles a child: harsh words, shortness of breath, coughing, his face turned blue (the blood vessels in the neck and face clearly visible), and the child do with the throat after swallowing.
If your baby chokes, the following things you can do to help:
• Hurry up and let her baby face on your forearm. Crutch head and neck with your hands.
• With the head lower than shoulders strikes about four times between the shoulder blades. Pat will continue until the foreign body is visible.
• Once the object is visible immediately. But be careful and not keep you on another drive. Never dig, if you are not your mouth can be clearly seen.

Home Treatments for Teething Symptom in Babies

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Teething babies make happy parents. But the process can change their little babies. There are home treatments of several of these symptoms, some of the best are:
• something to chew. This does not apply to feed people, but the pressure on the gum, which comes from the bottom and is most useful when things cold and chewing is immune to these frozen bananas, frozen bagels, clean cloth wrapped relieve cubic ice, fresh carrots, soothing teether.
• Try brushing or massaging your baby’s gums with a clean finger or the baby’s gums analgesics special gel.
• Do not drink anything cold.
• Eat something cold.
• Something to repair the pain. If a company can not remove the pain, paracetamol can be given, but consult your doctor.
• Clean the mouth (teeth, gums and tongue) on a regular basis, especially after the baby drinks milk or other sweet drinks after dinner.
• a clean and safe in infants prior to injection. For example: carrots, fruits, or biting (toys that have been bitten by a non-toxic plastic and can be filled with liquid).
• If the child can not sleep because of pain caused by diseases of the analgesics ordered child to the doctor.

Symptom of Teething in Babies

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

If baby teeth are growing, there is no limit on the duration or the way it should be unpleasant. Average of the first tooth appears at age six or seven months, it could be sooner or later. But the first symptoms can occur for two or three months before his own teeth.
Common symptoms in children, while teething:
• teething stimulates saliva production, some babies are more and less in others.
• redness and itching of the chin or face. Frequent skin dry, red, painful or around the chin and mouth because of irritation caused by constant contact with saliva. To avoid this, wash and place a towel under the sheets often, the entry of the child Out absorb saliva while the baby sleeps.
• a little cough. Sometimes, excessive salivation make a baby choking and coughing.
• Baby teeth increasingly biting gums all objects that can be mouthed by an external pressure to calm under the pressure of the teeth.
• pain. Inflammation is a protective reaction of the soft tissues of the gums, teeth pressure, which act as foreign bodies. In some children, this inflammation causes pain, but in some babies, which causes pain to everyone.
• As with all pain is constant, the baby restless and irritable. This not only takes a few days or hours but for weeks.
• He refuses to eat. Baby wants to do something to resist in the mouth to the tire pressure, but once they started to suck, suck is the addition of pain or discomfort, so that the bottle or breast may sit before that it really wanted. Babies who start solids is likely to lose interest in a time and the appetite will improve after the baby teeth to grow. Of course, if you eat your baby eats very little for a few days refuses, you should contact your doctor.
• a low fever. Sometimes a slight fever that has accompanied the growth of teeth as a result of inflammation. Just to be sure, the treatment of fever, treat it like other low fever, and ask your doctor if the fever lasts three days.
• Can not sleep. Discomfort during the night, and does not sleep. As with other problems of growth, the awakening in the middle of the night was more common in baby teeth and molars.
• Hematoma gums. Teething sometimes, because the bleeding is under the gums as a piece of light blue. Hematoma was left no need counseling and medical hassles lost. Cool compresses can ease discomfort and speed the loss of a hematoma.
• Pull the ears and rubbed his cheek. Pain in the gums may spread to the ear and cheek. This is how babies pull their ears or rub the cheek or chin. But we must also remember that babies also pull your ear when the ear infection.