babies
The category of infants, children of one day to weaning age, varies from one child to another, but in general the child is considered to be an infant as long as it depends on milk only, without being allowed to eat any other type of food, One to six months of age, when the baby’s teeth start to appear, and the annoying teething symptoms begin to appear.
The appearance of teeth in infants
The first teeth appear in babies are two teeth called milk teeth, and may extend the appearance of teeth until the age of three years, a long period, both children and parents, these teeth are called twinkling teeth, and begins the first age to appear in the sixth month, However, teeth may appear after 3 months of age and until the child finishes his first year. Usually, the first tooth is one of the front teeth called the incisors.
Other teeth are often visible. The second tooth is in the lower jaw or upper jaw, usually at the age of two, after the child completes his second year, and his full white teeth, which are the twenty teeth, become full.
Signs of dental appearance in infants
The appearance of teeth in infants is a disturbing process for both children and parents, where the first symptoms begin before the emergence of teeth one month or two months, during which the mother can not sleep the severity of these symptoms, as follows:
- Frequent salivation.
- The child’s feeling of pain associated with crying.
- Start the baby some things, to ease the feeling of pain.
- Swelling of the gums and redness of the color, and rubbing by the child with the fingers or any body holding him with his hand.
- Swelling, redness and color.
- Infection of the child with fever.
- Child’s diarrhea.
- Some children show their teeth without any associated symptoms.
- At first the lower teeth appear, and then the upper, then the lateral teeth and then the posterior.
Ways to relieve the appearance of teeth in infants
- Give the child something cold to chew, such as artificial sphincter, where it is placed in the refrigerator and then given to the child, and can be replaced with a bite of bread, or peeled carrot.
- Feed the baby somewhat chilled foods, such as mashed and chilled apples, and yogurt chilled.
- Rub the baby’s gums with sugar-free teething gel, which is brought from the pharmacy.
- If the child is suffering badly, he or she is given an age-appropriate dose of sugar-free parastimol.