Why does my two-year-old baby grind his teeth when sleeping at night?

In life, the baby's physical health and healthy sleep at night are things that parents are very concerned about. Many children grind their teeth when they sleep at night. Parents are very troubled about this. What is going on? Does it affect the baby's health? The editor will introduce to you in detail what causes a two-year-old child to grind his teeth when he sleeps at night?

There are several reasons for teeth grinding:

◇1. Most of them are caused by poor digestion. Some children like to eat too much before going to bed at night, which causes the digestive system to not stop working and causes teeth grinding.

◇2. It may also be caused by calcium deficiency and restless sleep in children.

◇3. Not rinsing your mouth and brushing your teeth before going to bed and not paying attention to oral hygiene can also cause bruxism.

◇4. Teeth grinding may also be caused by worms in the stomach. If there are worms in the stomach, you should deworm it in time. Children over two years old can take anthelmintics, such as Enterocin and Mebendazole. The dosage should be followed according to the doctor's advice.

□1. Mental factors: The oral cavity has the function of expressing nervous emotions. If the patient's fear, anger, hostility, resistance and other emotions, especially those with anxiety, cannot be expressed for some reason, they will try to relieve their inner depression by grinding their teeth. The tooth contact time of these patients is long and the frequency is frequent. These psychological factors may be one of the important factors in the etiology of bruxism.

□2. Occlusal factors: In nervous individuals, any occlusal interference may be a trigger for bruxism. The occlusal factors of bruxism patients are mostly the mismatch between the centric relationship and the centric occlusion, and premature contact on the non-working side during lateral occlusion. In addition, clinical occlusal adjustment methods have also successfully cured some bruxism. Occlusal factors are important factors in oral health, but whether they cause bruxism is still controversial; the disorder of jaw-bite relationship during the period of tooth replacement causes movement disorder of the jaw muscles, spasm and contraction;

□3. Central nervous system mechanism: There is a trend to believe that bruxism is an involuntary subconscious action like sleepwalking, enuresis, and nightmares. It is a symptom of partial brain awakening during sleep and a central nervous system sleep disorder related to daytime emotions, triggered by internal or external, psychological or physiological sleep-disturbing stimuli.

□4. Other systemic factors such as gastrointestinal dysfunction related to parasites, nutritional deficiencies in children, blood sugar and calcium concentrations, endocrine disorders, and allergic reactions may all be factors in the onset of bruxism.

Through the above introduction, parents should now understand that children grinding their teeth at night is not necessarily caused by worms in their stomachs. There are many reasons. Only by correctly judging the cause based on the child's characteristics can we help them relieve the symptoms and let them have a good sleep.