What to do if your 3-year-old child has toothache

Toothache is quite common among children because many children like sweets. If they eat too much sweets, it will naturally cause certain corrosion to the teeth, which in turn leads to tooth decay in children. The most common symptom of tooth decay is toothache. If a child has toothache symptoms, it is best to use some food to relieve and treat it, which is safe and effective. Next, I will introduce to you some folk remedies for treating toothache.

1. Children's toothache folk remedy 1: Liangmianzhen duck egg soup

Ingredients: 2 green-shell duck eggs, 50 g of two-sided needle root, and appropriate amounts of refined salt and sesame oil.

Preparation method: Wash and slice the roots of Liangmianzhen, boil them in water twice, using 250 ml of water each time for half an hour, mix the two times, remove the residue, continue to boil, crack in green-shell duck eggs, cook until done, add fine salt and drizzle with sesame oil. Eat the eggs and drink the soup while hot in 1 to 2 times.

Efficacy: It has the effects of clearing the stomach, purging fire, and relieving toothache.

Indications: Suitable for toothache caused by stomach fire. Symptoms include severe toothache, severe redness and swelling of the gums, headache, thirst, foul breath, constipation, red tongue and thick yellow tongue coating.

2. Children's toothache folk remedy 2: Adenophora egg soup

Ingredients: 2 fresh eggs, 30 g of Adenophora scabra, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Preparation method: Wash 2 fresh eggs and put them into a casserole. Add 30g of Adenophora Root and water and fry together. After the eggs are cooked, peel them, fry them for another 30 minutes, and add rock sugar juice. This recipe comes from folk experience. Take 1 dose per day, while hot.

Efficacy: It has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, replenishing deficiency and invigorating qi.

Indications: Suitable for toothache of Yin deficiency type. Symptoms include red tongue with little or no coating, prolonged toothache, loose and painful teeth, exposed tooth roots, dizziness, tinnitus, dry mouth and throat, hot hands and feet, back pain and fatigue, etc.

3. Children's toothache remedy 3: Tofu and crucian carp soup

Ingredients: 1 crucian carp (about 500g), 250g tofu, shredded ginger, salt, MSG, and sesame oil as appropriate.

Preparation method: Cut the tofu into small cubes, put it in a casserole, add 250ml of water, and cook on low heat until it becomes a honeycomb shape. Then kill and clean the crucian carp and put it in with salt and shredded ginger. Cook until cooked through, add MSG and drizzle with sesame oil. Eat the fish and drink the soup while it is hot in 1 to 2 times.

Efficacy: It has the effects of clearing the stomach, purging fire, and relieving toothache.

Indications: Suitable for toothache caused by stomach fire, swollen and painful gums, short and yellow urine, constipation, etc.

Efficacy: It has the effects of clearing heat, relieving pain and disinfection.

Indications: Suitable for toothache caused by stomach fire. Symptoms include yellow and greasy tongue coating, severe toothache, red and swollen gums with bleeding or pus, swollen and painful cheeks, foul breath, hot and painful stomach, constipation and yellow urine, thirst and preference for cold drinks, etc.