Women: Baby: cavities before they have teeth

The sugar promotes tooth decay, but avoid it at an early age is not enough. Car caries is a disease which is transmitted through saliva. Some preventive measures can protect the future of baby teeth.

And this even before they emerge. What mom has never tasted mashed her child before giving it to him at the same spoon? But there is worse, as "clean" with his own saliva a pacifier fell to earth! Actions that can have unexpected consequences on the oral health of children. For the mouth of an adult "healthy" contains about 60 different varieties of bacteria. Without forgetting that saliva is very acidic, and thus corrosive to the tooth enamel. All this you will understand, helping to change the pH of the mouth of the child in the direction of greater acidity, preparing a massive attack from the breakthrough of the first tooth!

To test the heat of the bottle, prefer the back so sensitive to the forearm. For puree, take a spoon than the child. And after you reach your mouth, do not put on his plate! Another practice to avoid: kissing on the mouth of the child that promote contamination. Similarly, do not lick their fingers to play, since it spends most of his time with his hands in their mouths ...

As for the bottle of milk given the night in bed, make sure it does not asleep. The sugars that turns into acid during the night, they attack the enamel of the teeth as they arise: the "infant tooth decay, that too many pediatricians and dentists know. Remains a subject that last angry is the soother, the famous "tototte." If you care about avoiding cavities in baby, to prevent it from custody in the mouth all day because it maintains the salivary secretions. Prevention is better than cure!

Especially since according to a Finnish study published here a few years nipples, pacifiers and other totottes would be responsible for 25% of ear infections diagnosed in nursery. No less! And the authors are formal: compared to other children "sucking" had an average of 5.4 against 3.6 otitis before 2 years, against 2.7 and 1.9 between 2 and 3 years! If they recommend the abolition of lollipops after the age of 10 months, because it seems to mark the beginning of infectious episodes ...