What anti-inflammatory medicine should babies take for inflamed gums?

If your baby has swollen and painful gums, it is likely caused by getting angry. At this time, parents must pay attention to giving the baby some heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines, such as giving the baby some water soaked with honeysuckle or chrysanthemum, and try to make the baby's diet lighter. If necessary, you can apply ice cubes on the baby's face, and don't let the baby eat anything too hard to avoid aggravating the toothache.

Gingivitis care methods

1. After being ill, rinse your mouth with normal saline or medicated mouthwash. Keep your mouth closed while rinsing. Use your cheeks, lips and tongue to fully activate the mouthwash so that it repeatedly impacts the gaps between teeth and food residues elsewhere, and then spit it out.

2. The symptoms of gingivitis can be improved through timely self-treatment. First of all, you need to pay attention to dietary conditioning, eating light and easily digestible food, and avoid eating spicy, irritating, or cold food.

3. Tap your teeth in the morning and evening, tapping up and down forcefully dozens of times. This can improve circulation and promote the metabolism of gum tissue.

4. Brush your teeth correctly. Brush vertically regardless of front or back, and brush each part dozens of times. Brush once in the morning and once in the evening to thoroughly remove plaque and residue in the gaps.

5. Develop good chewing habits and chew slowly. This can not only promote the secretion of digestive juice and facilitate the full digestion of food, but also promote circulation and is beneficial to the health of periodontal tissues. Get rid of the bad habit of chewing on one side.

6. Gum massage: Place your index finger on the gums and do some local small circular massage movements. Then rinse your mouth so that the gum area of ​​each tooth is massaged. Repeat several times.

Treatments for gingivitis

1. Acupuncture point treatment. Some body acupoints commonly used in acupuncture point treatment are: Hegu, Cheek Cartilage, Xiaguan, Dicang, Quchi, Neiting, Taichong ear points: lung, spleen, stomach, liver, oral cavity, adrenal gland.

2. Treatment by traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that teeth are governed by the kidneys. Kidney deficiency leads to loss of essence and blood, and teeth lack nourishment, causing bone atrophy. In combination with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, the virtual fire will inflame the gums, causing the teeth to become loose and the roots to be exposed over time. Or it may be due to a weak constitution, or long-term illness that depletes the vital energy, leading to insufficient qi and blood, and gums lacking nourishment, allowing pathogenic factors to enter the teeth, resulting in gum atrophy, blood not flowing through the meridians, and gum bleeding, thus causing this disease. Different situations will require different treatments.

3. Western medicine treatment, appropriate use of vitamin C, vitamin A and D to enhance the body's resistance and repair ability, help repair periodontal tissue. If the condition is caused by systemic diseases, the main focus should be on treating the systemic diseases. Topical medication: can be applied after removing tartar, plaque and food debris.

4. Surgical treatment: For patients with more serious conditions, surgical treatment can be adopted. Gingivectomy may be performed in patients with significant gingival hyperplasia.

How to relieve baby's gum inflammation

1. It is best to breastfeed the baby after birth and ensure sufficient breast milk. Because breast milk is the most ideal food for babies. It is rich in nutrients and will not cause "heat".

2. For babies who are bottle-fed, you can add some milk cakes to the milk and feed them more fruit juice; children over six months old should consume foods rich in fiber and feed them more boiled water every day. For babies who do not have enough breast milk, milk should be added in time instead of laxatives; increasing the intake of cereals and fiber can cure food-induced constipation.

3. Cultivate good eating and bowel habits in children from an early age;

4. Control your child’s snacks and try to buy less fried and braised foods and other foods that are easy to cause “heat” for your child. Preschool children should eat less food with shells, such as fried melon seeds or peanuts. Children should be encouraged to eat more vegetables and fruits, and not be allowed to drink cold drinks in summer.

5. For bottle-fed babies who suffer from chronic constipation, the milk powder can be diluted and the amount of sugar can be increased, adding 10 grams of sugar to every 100 ml of milk (under normal circumstances, 8 grams of sugar should be added to every 100 ml of milk). You can feed 1 to 2 bananas every day or drink some honey water every morning, no less than 50 ml each time, with warm water.

6. In hot seasons, you can feed your children some mung bean juice or mung bean porridge, and give older children some cold drinks, such as ice cream and popsicles. In addition, taking some Chinese patent medicines or decoctions for clearing away heat and reducing fire, such as summer chrysanthemum granules, lotus leaves, perilla, water chestnuts, etc., can not only clear away heat and reduce fire, but also nourish the spleen and stomach.

7. If your child suffers from herpetic stomatitis or ulcerative stomatitis, he or she must go to the hospital for treatment immediately.