The danger of baby's molars at night
1. Affect the baby's sleep quality. Sometimes, the baby's subconscious can feel that he is grinding his teeth, it is easy to sleep unsteady.
2. Affect the health of your baby's teeth. Direct friction between the teeth and the teeth can cause great damage to the enamel of the tooth surface. The teeth may become sensitive and fragile, and then the symptoms of gingivitis and gum atrophy will occur. The dentin under its protection will also be damaged. The nature of the molars is different from the bite of the teeth during chewing, where the food and saliva between the upper and lower teeth are lubricated and cushioned, rather than the dry molars like the former.
3. It causes the displacement or looseness of the teeth, and the masticatory muscles will become coarse. In the long run, the baby's face is very likely to change, affecting the aesthetic appearance of the face.
4. Your baby's mood will be affected. Long-term molars will keep the masticatory muscles in a state of exhaustion. Over time, the gang will feel sore, the temples will be prominent, and the head will become very painful. In this way, the baby will feel very uncomfortable, and the mood and mood will naturally become worse.
Sometimes, the cause of molars has been cured, but the conditioned reflexes formed on the cerebral cortex after long-term molars cannot be eliminated, and it is still possible to continue to grind at night. Therefore, if the molars are not treated earlier, it will affect your life.
How to improve the problem of night molars
1. Try not to let your baby play too excited or too tired during the day. Don't play any intense games with your baby before going to bed at night. Don't show your baby a comedy, horror or something, let your baby have a stable mood to sleep. Mothers can tell the story to the baby before going to bed or talk to the baby, let the baby talk about their recent concerns, help him solve their troubles. The restless mood of the baby is naturally able to sleep well overnight.
2. Teach the child to relax before going to bed. Mothers can let the baby lie flat on the bed, then breathe evenly and rhythmically. As breathing is gentle, all parts of the body will relax together. The baby may not be able to understand the meaning of relaxing before going to bed at a time, and the mothers can personally give the child a demonstration.
3. For the problem of nighttime molars caused by parasites in the intestines, mothers should take the baby to the hospital to fight the insects in time, because the parasite's harm is not only the molars but also affects the child's digestion and absorption functions, hindering the baby's growth and development. Although in recent years, people pay more and more attention to food hygiene, the problem of mites has not been as serious as it was a year ago, but as long as this happens, mothers must let the baby take the anthelmintic according to the doctor's advice.
4. Correct your baby's bad eating habits. Some babies like to eat some foods that are not digestible. Some babies like to eat a lot of dinners. These bad habits should be corrected in time. After discovering that the baby has the symptoms of molars, the mother should control the baby's diet. Don't eat too much at night, and don't eat non-digestible things, so as to prevent the food from staying in the intestines for too long to stimulate the brain and nervous system.
5. Take the baby to the dental hospital to configure a special dental pad. If the baby is particularly serious at night, you can take him to the dental hospital to see a doctor. The current dental hospital has a special treatment for the baby's molars. The stubborn molars can also be equipped with a dental pad. At night, it can be used to reduce the molars. The damage that comes. If you choose to wear a dental pad for your baby, mothers must carefully fix the baby at night to prevent the dental pad from falling out accidentally.
6. Teach your child how to relax the muscles of the face. Frequently grinding your teeth, the masticatory muscles will be very tired, and mothers can teach the baby to relax both sides of the muscles before going to bed. With the rhythm of one breath, let the baby repeatedly clench the teeth and relax the teeth until the baby feels tired. This kind of exercise can make the coordination of exercise muscles better, and the situation of involuntary convulsions may be alleviated.
7. Add more calcium and vitamin D to your baby, soak up and sunbathe, and promote calcium absorption. Calcium-deficient babies are prone to skeletal dysplasia such as rickets, which can affect the bite of the baby's teeth and cause molars.
8. Pay attention to your baby's sleep posture at night. During the child's molars, the mothers have to work hard and several times at night to see if the baby's sleeping posture is correct. If it is suspected that it will be pressed to the masticatory muscles, then immediately change the baby's sleeping posture.