Posts Tagged ‘Teeth’
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.
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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.
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
In addition to high nutrient, that food should be given to babies should be safe and harmless. In providing safe food for infants, mothers must consider several important things the following:
- Avoid fibrous foods like celery or green beans.
- If you want to give your baby a nutritious fish, first remove the fish bones before crushed.
- Give a chance to digest one type of baby food and see your baby’s reaction after eating the food, who knew she was allergic.
- Give the food in the form of toys. Special toys that can be bitten and swallowed by the baby safely is bananas. Some mothers are also often give her baby carrots and apples and pears poached or steamed to be bitten-bite.
- Cut small pieces of beef and chicken in a cross from the roots. Avoid large pieces that can make a baby to choke.
- Check the pieces of the food prepared. Front baby teeth just to bite. Baby teeth do not show up until a year old child. Babies still suck and not bite.
- Give food that can be held by baby finger when he was sitting, not when you’re playing or lying.
- Sausage is not nutritious food that is safe for babies. One bite-sized sausage trachea can make a baby to choke. Sausage healthy and free nitrate is a food craze toddlers and safe for them when sliced long and small like a noodle. However, even this healthy sausage can contain high amounts of sodium, so that their consumption should be limited.
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
• Do not give your baby food or sweet drinks when going to bed because it can cause decay in your baby’s mouth during sleep.
• Provide drinking milk or formula by using drinking glasses
• Leave the bottle in baby’s mouth when the baby is sleeping.
• Provide food and beverages that are high in fiber and nutritious.
• It has been shown That young children exposed to passive smoking have more dental decay than other children.
• Encourage your child to the dentist every six months to check their teeth.
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Cleaning teeth and maintaining dental health is very important for your child, Rub least twice a day, after meals and before bed at night.
1 to 1.5 months of age
You can already start to teach brushing his teeth with a special toothbrush for children. Or, you can also use a soft toothbrush that can be wrapped on your finger. Steps:
1. Brush your baby’s teeth without using toothpaste, to prevent the possibility of swallowing too much fluoride (F) is contained in the toothpaste.
2. Baby toothbrush with rotating movements.
3. Rinse with water to give a clean, ripe white.
To get used to brush my teeth at this age, initially you can familiarize your child see you brushing your teeth. Then, let him hold his own toothbrush and play while brushing your teeth to imitate the movement.
1.5 to 2 years of age
At this age, the child usually has begun to hold a toothbrush and age. So, now your child can be taught to brush my teeth using a special toothpaste for teeth of seed corn. Please arrange for your child not to swallow toothpaste, even though it feels good, so he is not the excess flour. It is important to teach your child brushing his teeth:
1. You and your child standing in front of the mirror. From the back, hold your baby’s hand and bring your toothbrush to the teeth to be brushed. Tell her to imitate the way you hold the brush and the way you move the brush to clean the teeth.
2. Give him an opportunity to learn to brush their own teeth, even if not right way.
3. Once completed, send him gargle with clean boiled water several times.
More than two years of age
Starting at age 2 years, you can begin to teach your child brush his teeth with schrob method. Namely, a tooth brushing method that is easy and simple for toddlers. How:
1. Rub the front teeth top and bottom with a direction to the right and left side.
2. Then, the entire side of the tooth, and all the back teeth.
3. Rinsing with clean water several times.
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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.
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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.
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Generally, babies who are sick because of teething brought to the pediatrician, not a dentist. If the body warm baby, parents are not more suspicious of teething, but other illnesses such as heat due to dengue fever, typhoid, and others. However, although not a dentist, the pediatrician can determine if the baby is ill because Teething or not.
When the temperature is not too high and no symptoms such as coughs, colds, and other, the doctor will look at the condition of his mouth. If there is anything on her gums, like the color of pale gums and a little more prominent than the other side, then allegedly came from a warm body who want to grow teeth.
Usually the doctor will give medicine containing as an analgesic and antipyretic drugs painkillers .Medicines are in content-lowering drugs. Only if there is a problem with his teeth, for example, very swollen and slightly bluish because the blood vessels are squeezed, referred to the dentist. Meanwhile, when it decreases appetite, of course not continue to be silenced.
However, these should be given food. Because it is still a baby, of course, given any food that was not too hard, but the liquid. Even if growth after six months and he had eaten the team, then give the food a bit soft, for example, with the blender. To be sure, the food should be avoided somewhat hard.
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
There are several important nutrients needed to form during the formation of healthy teeth and tooth development. These important nutrients are calcium, phosphorus, vitamin D and protein.
Calcium is a mineral that is needed to form the violence on the bones and teeth. Calcium salts are regularly incorporated into bone tissue and be reabsorbed by the body. Calcium and phosphorus can strengthen teeth. Foods that contain lots of calcium such as green vegetable, grains, nuts, milk, eggs and meat.
Vitamin D functions in regulating the absorption of calcium and phosphorus that play a role in the formation of bones and teeth. Vitamin D deficiency can cause will be easily damaged teeth. The main source of vitamin D is sunshine and fish oils.
Proteins can strengthen the network in the teeth so avoid dental caries disease. Foods that contain lots of protein are meat, fish, eggs and soybeans.
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Generally, the function of teeth is very important at the beginning of the process of digestion. Dental care in children is very important to start early. One way by managing to food consumption in children. Consume too many sweet drinks and obesity is supposed to be the main cause of increased cases of caries in children under five.
The main cause of tooth decay among children is an acid that is formed by bacteria in the oral cavity. Acid is produced from waste food with added sugar and flour, which sticks in the teeth for long.
To avoid introducing holes in the teeth of your child, not for children to drink milk from a bottle of sleeping in sweet liquids, which are not flooding the teeth too long. When teeth begin to grow, to teach children to brush their teeth. Remember your child’s teeth checked every six months
Caring for baby teeth can be done by way of cleaning teeth using a cotton gauze or rinsed with warm water, then slowly rubbed on your baby’s gums. If the child is growing up, parents should teach him about the routine of brushing your teeth.
Providing fiber-rich foods such as vegetable and fruit can clean your child’s teeth because they have to be chewed over and over again.
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