How to clean your baby's mouth

Babies do not have teeth when they are born, so you should also pay attention to their oral hygiene during this period. If you do not pay attention to oral hygiene, it is easy for some bacteria to grow. At this time, thrush may occur, causing oral ulcers and other symptoms. It often causes severe pain in children, and they are afraid to breastfeed. It is relatively simple to clean the baby's mouth. You can wipe it with saline. Let's take a look at this aspect.

How to clean your baby's mouth

When a baby is just born, there will often be a certain amount of secretions in the mouth. This is a normal phenomenon and generally does not need to be wiped off. You can regularly feed the baby some warm boiled water to rinse out the secretions in the mouth.

If there is still dirt or secretions in the baby's mouth, the mother does not need to be too anxious. She should let the baby lie on his side and wrap a small towel or bib under the baby's jaw. After washing her hands, the mother should use a cotton swab dipped in a little salt water or warm water to clean the cheeks, the outside of the gums, the inside of the gums and the tongue in this order. Because the baby's oral mucosa is extremely tender, produces little saliva, is easily damaged and can cause infection, you must be gentle when cleaning it.

After a period of time, you should gradually develop the habit of cleaning your baby's gums with a clean gauze or handkerchief dipped in warm water every morning and evening. You should persist in doing this even if the child's deciduous teeth have not grown. Doing so can keep the baby's mouth clean and provide a good growth environment for the eruption of deciduous teeth.

After 6 months, the baby's deciduous teeth will erupt. At this time, you can let the baby sit on the parents' laps, wrap clean gauze or handkerchiefs around your fingers, and gently scrub the baby's newly erupted deciduous teeth; after the baby is 12 months old, parents should teach the baby to brush his teeth. At the beginning, you can let your baby take a toothbrush without toothpaste to imitate, and then help your child brush his teeth step by step. It won’t take long before your baby will be able to brush his teeth skillfully.

How to brush teeth for children:

The mother sits on the sofa or bed and lets the child lie in her arms. The mother holds the child's head and lips with one hand, and uses the other hand to hold a clean gauze or a fingertip toothbrush for infants and young children, dipped in warm water, to clean the outer and inner sides of the child's teeth.

Method for brushing teeth for children aged 1.5 to 3 years old: The child can stand upright or sit on a chair. The mother can stand behind or to the side of the child, fix the child's head with one hand, and hold the child's toothbrush with warm water in the other hand to brush the child's teeth (no toothpaste is needed).

The order of brushing your teeth is: place the bristles of the toothbrush close to the gums and tilt it at a 45-degree angle to the tooth surface. Brush the upper teeth from top to bottom and the lower teeth from bottom to top. After brushing the outer side, you should also brush the inner side and the biting surface of the back teeth. Each surface needs to be brushed 15 to 20 times to achieve the purpose of cleaning teeth.