What should I do if my child has bad breath?

In life, when we are socializing, if we find that the other person has serious bad breath, we will involuntarily feel disgusted. This situation is really unbearable. In addition, some children will have bad breath, which makes parents very scared, because this situation directly indicates that there is something wrong with the child's body. So what should we do if the child has bad breath?

First, what should we do if our child has bad breath? There are generally several aspects to an adult's bad breath. 1. It may be that you ate too much food and the remaining food has fermented in your mouth. 2. It may be that there is inflammation in your mouth. 3. It may be that there is a problem with your spleen and stomach. It stands to reason that children, especially very young ones, generally do not have serious bad breath. However, many babies who are only a dozen months old can smell a very strong odor when they wake up in the morning. Children have bad breath because of indigestion. My little one is the same. Children have poor digestion and never feel full, so they easily get food accumulation and become very sick over time.

Second, children’s digestive organs are not yet fully developed. The digestive organs of children are not fully developed, which is manifested in: insufficient secretion of digestive juices, relatively tender mucous membranes in the intestines and stomach, and imperfect enzyme function. The above factors combined show that the digestive function of children is very weak. If mothers feed their children everything during their childhood, they may develop gastric reflux to varying degrees. When gastric gas refluxes, the gastric acid in the stomach will flow back into the mouth, and the gastric acid will cause bad breath.

Third, there is inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. Food contaminated by bacteria can easily cause gastrointestinal inflammation. When children accidentally eat contaminated food, it may cause gastrointestinal discomfort, leading to bad breath in children.

What should we do if our child has bad breath? Abuse of antibiotics. Lactobacillus in the gastrointestinal tract of children can protect the stomach. If antibiotics are used too much, they will inhibit the growth of normal bacteria in children's bodies, such as lactobacillus, and promote the proliferation of miscellaneous bacteria. Therefore, excessive use of antibiotics is also one of the causes of bad breath in children.