What to do if baby has chapped mouth

The baby's skin is relatively delicate. In life, every parent hopes that the child can grow up healthy and happy. But at this time, some phenomena are always prone to occur. In the following article, let’s learn about this phenomenon of babies sleeping and what to do.

The main causes of oral erosions include:

①Vitamin B: lack of. Usually eating less animal offal, eggs, milk, fresh vegetables, beans, coarse rice and noodles, etc., the human body lacks vitamin B2;

②Herpes at the corner of mouth.

It is mostly caused by the herpes virus. The child's skin at the corners of the mouth begins to itch, then turns red and has a burning sensation. Multiple small blisters may occur, which will form scabs after breaking and heal naturally after the scabs fall off;

③Infectious angular cheilitis. It is often caused by fungal infection while being a deficiency of vitamin B2. Children who abuse antibiotics for a long time or suffer from gastrointestinal diseases are also prone to vitamin B2 deficiency and angular cheilitis.

④ About 10.67% of children with zinc deficiency have erosion or cracks at the corners of their mouth. From the cause of the disease, it can be seen that children who often suffer from oral erosion should pay more attention to the adjustment of dietary nutrition, and try to eat more foods rich in vitamin B2 and zinc. The corners of the mouth and oral cavity should be kept clean to avoid irritation of the eroded areas at the corners of the mouth by hard or hot foods. Food utensils should also be kept clean. Do not let your child lick the eroded corners of his mouth to prevent aggravating the erosion and bringing the germs on the corners of his mouth into his mouth.

In the above article, we learned that babies have sore mouth corners because the baby gets inflamed due to breast milk or formula. It is recommended that everyone, especially breastfeeding mothers, should be careful not to eat foods that are easy to cause inflamed.