We are all familiar with toothache, and we know that it gives discomfort and a lot of inconveniences, and it's not so easy to ease it. And when the tooth hurts in a small child, parents are knocked down to find a way to help the baby. In this article, we'll figure out what to do with toothache, if you can not get to the dentist in the near future.
First, you need to find out the very cause of the pain. If a child has a dairy toothache, most likely it is pulpitis and you need to get to the dentist as soon as possible.
There are several other reasons:
- caries or a hole in the tooth resulting from it;
- cracked enamel;
- new, erupting molar tooth;
- staggered milk tooth.
It is worth noting that sometimes a toothache in children can arise because of a piece of food stuck between the teeth. Therefore, if the child complains of pain, inspect his mouth and check to see if there is any foreign body.
How to remove a child's toothache?
- Good help broths of herbs. Look, maybe you have dried chamomile, melissa, sage, St. John's wort, thyme, mint, blackberry, aspen bark or oak, chicory root or other plants in your home. All these herbs are quite effective in combating toothache.
- To resolve pain in the tooth, a solution of soda or salt will help. Mix one glass of warm water and a spoonful of soda. With this compound, rinse your mouth every 10-15 minutes. You can even just type the solution into your mouth and hold it as long as possible in the patient's tooth. Usually the pain subsides in 45 minutes.>
- Acute toothache in a child can be removed with the help of special tooth drops (they are sold in any pharmacy). To do this, moisten them with a piece of cotton wool and attach to a sick tooth.
- To reduce the pain, you can put a peppermint pill under your tongue, or drop it on a sick tooth of peppermint essential oil.
- There are several more popular methods of pain relief. Our grandmothers recommend applying garlic, fat or propolis to a sore spot.
- Sometimes babies complain that it hurts the place where the milk tooth fell out (pulled out). In this case there is no reason for experience, it's just a wound. To soothe the pain, you need to rinse your mouth with a solution of salt after each meal.
- Pain when teething is removed by gum massage. You can give your child a nibble on a cool apple or carrot.
- If the toothache does not stop, you can give an anesthetic for the children. For example, paracetamol or ibuprofen. But in any case, you need to visit the dentist soon.