Can long horse tooth affect suckling?

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Horse teeth are white or yellowish white vesicles or dots growing on the baby's tooth flesh (both sides of the midline of the palate and the edge of the gingiva). It's very similar to the newly grown deciduous teeth, but when most babies are born 4-6 weeks after birth, they usually don't suffer from this disease within 100 days, which can be well distinguished from the deciduous teeth, commonly known as "horse teeth" or "die teeth". Will the growth of horse teeth affect the feeding? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Can long horse tooth affect suckling?

First: the appearance of horse teeth is normal, and generally will not have uncomfortable feeling. But sometimes the horse teeth make the baby itch, or feel very bloated. It's because they are restless, biting the pacifier and so on. So the baby's horse teeth will affect the feeding.

Second: Generally speaking, a few months after birth, horse teeth will slowly fall off. If because of lack of nutrition, horse teeth can't fall in time, it's not necessary to treat them specially. With pure cotton white cloth wrapped in the fingers with water to the baby like brushing teeth back and forth to wipe a few times, wipe two days to come. Breast feeding refers to the way of feeding the baby with the milk of the mother.

Third: the baby has horse teeth, some parents are very nervous about it, they always think it is a disease, always want to treat it. So I want to use a towel dipped in salt water to wipe the horse teeth, or try to use a needle to pick the horse teeth. In fact, the above practice is counterproductive. Some external stimulation, such as the contact or friction of sharp objects, is not conducive to the removal of horse teeth, but will damage the baby's weak oral cavity.

matters needing attention

During the period when the baby has "horse teeth", parents do not need to feed the baby and take any medicine, nor do they need to reduce the amount of milk. After the baby finished the milk, feed the baby to drink a little water to clean it. Also want to avoid the baby to develop the bad habit of sleeping with nipples.