Do children have fever when teething?

Everyone goes through the process of tooth growth twice. The first tooth growth is when the baby's teeth grow in the mouth, and the second tooth growth is when the mouth changes during childhood. When children are experiencing their first teething, their immunity is relatively weak and they are still in a stage of continuous improvement. They are also prone to various problems. Therefore, parents may wonder if children will have a fever when teething.

Not necessarily. Some babies will have a fever, but some will not. Teething itself will not cause any fever. The fever that occurs during teething is mainly because the baby's gums will itch during the teething stage, and they prefer to bite things. If they bite something unclean, it may cause throat or gastrointestinal infection, and fever or diarrhea. It is not the teething itself that will cause the baby to have a fever or diarrhea.

Some children will have a fever when they are growing teeth and growing taller, because after all, it takes a lot of effort to grow a tooth. If the fever remains low and the child is in good spirits, then there is no need to worry. Just make sure the child drinks plenty of water and avoids eating irritating foods.

Every baby has a different physique, so for some babies the fever will go away automatically, but some babies have poor physiques and are weakest when they are teething, so they catch a cold and have a fever.

Baby teething precautions

Generally, a pair of deciduous central incisors on the baby's lower jaw will quietly erupt when the baby is 4-8 months old, and from then on the baby is no longer a toothless baby. Babies at this stage like to put anything they can get into their mouths and chew it, which makes people laugh and cry. Sometimes they will even imitate adults' actions and chew chopsticks and spoons.

During this period, mothers can try to give their babies some semi-solid foods, such as mashed potatoes, egg yolk puree, oatmeal porridge, etc., so that the baby can experience the transition from watery diet to paste-like diet. Complementary foods with a slight consistency can make the baby aware that his food is beginning to change, laying the foundation for adding solid foods in the future to allow the baby to practice chewing with his teeth.

How to care for your baby's teeth

The salivary glands of neonates are underdeveloped and the amount of saliva is small. At 6-7 months, teeth begin to erupt. The eruption of teeth makes the gums itchy and the amount of saliva secretion increases significantly, so children have a lot of saliva when teeth are erupting. Because babies' oral cavity is not deep enough, their nervous system development and swallowing reflex are poor, and their ability to control the flow of saliva in the mouth is poor, they often drool. In this case, you should wipe it dry in time to keep the skin of your lower lip dry and clean. As you age and your teeth erupt, drooling will gradually disappear.

During the teething period, children like to bite their mother's nipples, pacifiers and their own fingers. This is because when the teeth erupt, the gums are stimulated to become congested and edematous, and children always feel uncomfortable such as itchy gums. Relieve the itchy discomfort by biting the nipple or sucking the fingers. At this time, give the baby clean gauze, rubber stick toys or harder food, and let the child chew these things to relieve the discomfort of itchy gums.

During the tooth eruption period, some children develop swellings of varying sizes on the gums near the erupting teeth. The surface is bluish-purple and the swelling range varies in size, but is limited to the incisal edge or gingival surface of the teeth that are about to erupt. The swelling is caused by the accumulation of blood under the gums when the tooth breaks through the dental follicle during tooth eruption. It looks like a small hematoma, called eruption hematoma. Generally there are no subjective symptoms, no special treatment is required, and it can be absorbed on its own.