Sunday, May 15, 2011

Toothache in Childs

Matter how carefully we are not watching their kids teeth, anything can happen. Toothache child is sometimes unexpected and contrary to all the efforts of parents and dentists.Why do children toothache? What to do when a toothache in a child?
 
Toothache, a child may appear during the meal. Chewing a piece of solid food, baby feels the pain starts to cry. Tooth gives the reaction to the sweet, hot or cold. This is a toothache caused by caries. Caries - a disease in which destroyed only dental hard tissue (enamel and is located directly under the enamel dentin). For caries need a crack or hollow, through which a tooth falls pathogens. Here he is a solid and destroys tissue. Sometimes the top of the tooth can not put a noticeable cracks or chips. In babies and enamel and dentin is still very soft. This is especially true for children up to three years. Erupted teeth have not been formed until the end. Mineralization process ends about three years.
There is another type of dental pain in children. This pain, caused by pulpits. Pulp - the destruction of the soft tissues of the tooth - the pulp. Infection of the pulp microbes face the fact that the blood vessels pathogen can get from the tooth to the jaw, causing inflammation. When a tooth pulpits pain spontaneously. He may be sick, and day and night, and pain is not triggered by food or other effects. Pain during pulpits can not be held for hours.
How to help your child with a toothache?The best way to help - it is urgent to go to the dentist. But a toothache, as luck would have it might break out late at night or on weekends.How to help your child survive a few hours before the dental offices?
1. Give your child an anesthetic drug on the basis of paracetamol or ibuprofen. In such cases, the effect is stronger than ibuprofen, but the fit and paracetamol.
2. Let your child proportioner mouth and tooth cavity with warm solution of baking soda or infusion of sage. Ask your child to hold the liquid in the mouth longer.
3. If the cavity is large, take a small piece of cotton wool, make a ball, moisten it in mint oil, and enter deeply into the cavity.
4. Can be inserted into the cavity of the patient the tooth and a small piece of propolis, if a child is not allergic to honey and bee products.
5. Massage the ear. At the top of the ear are acupressure points that can relieve pain. Massage the ear to the other side, which is an aching tooth. Do not expect quick results. Massage should be at least five - seven minutes. If the child survive those five minutes - you are saved.
Take care of your baby's teeth since its inception. Encourage your child to brush your teeth. You can start to clean even the first single tooth! On sale is a special silicone brush that fits over the finger mom. But after a year of cleaning teeth - it's just a necessary procedure. Today you can find a special toothpaste that can be used for cleaning teeth, even in the six-month babies. There is also a nice little tooth brush.
Let the kid often eat hard food. For example, raw fruits and vegetables, crackers.Sugar - the enemy of children's teeth. Remember it forever.Do not feed your baby is not too hot nor too cold food. This can cause cracks in teeth, through which the germs get into the softer layers. Do not neglect to the dentist. Once every half a year to reduce the baby to the doctor. At first, he will be afraid and to cry, but eventually gets used, and the procedure would cause him concern.
Be sure to let your baby Supplements (biologically active additives) containing calcium and phosphorus. Many manufacturers make such supplements specifically for children.