First aid for painful teething! Do you know what will bring relief to your child?

Crying caused by teething does not allow the baby to sleep peacefully. Sore and red gums, apathy, lack of appetite and drooling – every child around 6-7. month she starts to struggle with teething. It may be accompanied by loose stools and fever. The multitude of reasons justifies the baby’s crying and anxiety.

Sometimes children are born with the first teeth, or they start to appear relatively early – in the 4th month of life, or late – after the first year. Learn ways to ease your child’s suffering.

How to deal with painful teething?

1. Teether is quite widely used. Filled with gel, before giving it to the child, we should leave it in the fridge for some time, because chilled it will reduce the pain a bit. We need to prevent the occurrence of thrush, for this purpose, wash the teether several times a day in warm water.
2. Through sucking a pacifierThe baby can calm down. Also pain and itching are largely reduced.
3. A good solution is to massage your child’s gums with a silicone toothbrush that you put on your finger.
4. Alternatively you can use soaked in sage or chamomile gauze, which you wrap around your finger and wipe the swollen gums with it. Inflammation will be relieved. However, this method cannot be used for allergy sufferers.
5. It will most likely bring relief biting hard vegetables and fruits — apples, carrots and cookies or corn chips.
6. You can buy painkillers for infants to lubricate the gums at the pharmacy without a prescription. However, remember not to use them more than three times a day.
7. Suppositories and syrup may be irreplaceable for bringing relief. Let’s give them to the child in case of fever, as well as pain that prevents sleep.
8. Lemon balm tea should help the baby calm down and make it easier to fall asleep.
9. Meals should be semi-liquid, fragmented and not too hot. If you are going to feed your baby with breast milk, lubricate the gums beforehand anesthetic gel.

Do not forget to wipe the mouth of excess saliva, as this will prevent irritation. It is also worth protecting the mouth area with a moisturizing cream.

With the intervention of a doctor…

When should you take your child to the doctor? Certainly, we should react as soon as we observe that a fever above 38 degrees Celsius persists for more than 48 hours and does not weaken despite the administration of drugs for lowering the temperature. Respiratory tract infections are also a pretext respiratory problems, cough and runny noseloss of appetite, diarrhea or bleeding gums. Do not delay the visit to the doctor in case of inflammation around the mouth.