What to do if your two-year-old baby is grinding his teeth

Many people think that teeth grinding is only a phenomenon that occurs in adults, but they don’t know that many children are also prone to teeth grinding. Teeth grinding is a symptom that directly harms the body. If the phenomenon of teeth grinding is not improved in time, it will lead to poor sleep. This phenomenon will also hinder the child’s physical development. When a child likes to grind his teeth, it must be treated in time. So what should a two-year-old baby do if he likes to grind his teeth?

For children who are in the period of deciduous teeth eruption and deciduous permanent teeth replacement, night bruxism is an activity that is establishing a normal chewing relationship, but the phenomenon of bruxism may also occur for the following reasons:

The first is the mental factor. Emotional tension is the most common cause of bruxism. If children are too excited during the day and are still playing games or are nervous before going to bed at night, although most of the cerebral cortex is in an inhibited state after falling asleep, there will still be some areas (such as the trigeminal nerve in the pons) in an excited state. In this way, it will send a "signal" to command the facial chewing muscles to contract briefly and continuously. As a result, the sleeping person's lower jaw will move involuntarily up and down, left and right, and forward and backward, thus making a "squeaking" sound of grinding teeth.

The second is the presence of parasites in the intestines or other reasons. When people are sleeping soundly at night, the parasites wriggle in the intestinal cavity, causing the nerves to be stimulated in some way, resulting in a nerve reflex. Ascaris can secrete a variety of toxins, such as neurotoxins, allergic toxins, hemolytic toxins, and enzymatic toxins. In addition, certain metabolites discharged by the worm body will constantly stimulate the corresponding parts of the human brain while sleeping, causing some people's chewing muscles to continue to contract at night, resulting in bruxism. But not all people with parasitic diseases grind their teeth at night. Some people have irregular diets, which lead to gastrointestinal diseases and endocrine disorders, resulting in bruxism. In addition, some people sometimes eat too much at night, and a lot of food accumulates in the intestines when they fall asleep. The gastrointestinal tract has to work overtime, and due to the heavy burden, it will cause involuntary bruxism during sleep. Nutritional deficiencies in children, blood sugar and calcium concentrations, endocrine disorders, etc. may all be factors in the onset of bruxism.

Third, people who lack vitamins and trace elements in their bodies are prone to bruxism. For example, a considerable number of children grind their teeth at night because of unbalanced nutrition caused by picky eating.

If your child likes to grind their teeth, then try this method to give your child timely improvement. If you can control the phenomenon of teeth grinding in time, you can reduce the harm it brings to the child. Teeth grinding is a habit, and it is difficult to improve a child's teeth grinding in a short time. If you want to cure your child's teeth grinding, you must know what causes the child's teeth grinding.