A dentist friend said: the baby with dental caries is getting smaller and smaller, and some deciduous teeth begin to turn black as soon as they grow, and dental caries appear. The main reasons are eating too many sweets, brushing your teeth from time to time, and using bottle feeding for a long time. Come to think of it carefully, my baby also has these conditions.
Improper use of bottle leads to younger age of dental caries.
Colleague Cai Qin brought his son to the company some time ago. When I opened my mouth, I saw a rotten tooth. I said,'' How can such a small tooth rot like this? Cai Qin said, "I can't help it. He likes sweets, but his baby teeth will change in the future.
At noon, Cai Qin took out a bottle to feed his son and asked him if it was a bottle. Now I'm almost 5 years old. I still drink bottle milk every day and sleep with a bottle. I gently reminded her that the cause of her son's dental caries may be related to the long-term use of bottles, and suggested that he give up the bottles quickly.
We should all have heard of the above two causes of baby dental caries. Long-term use of bottles is actually the biggest culprit and should be taken seriously. And the harm of using a bottle is far more than that!
Lead to obesity
According to the research of Einstein College of Medicine, the obesity rate of children who still use bottles after 1 year old is 22.9% at the age of five and a half. The reason is that the bottle itself is dependent, and the baby will unconsciously inhale more milk during long-term eating, thus causing obesity.
Lead to dental caries
Generally, people who use bottles for a long time will habitually eat and sleep with them at some point. In this way, the milk powder will remain on the teeth, and the longer it is stored, the bottle-shaped dental caries will easily appear, and even the tooth growth deformity (skew and eruption) will appear.
Cause tooth deformity
Although deciduous teeth will be completely replaced after the age of 6, if the long-term use of bottles during deciduous teeth leads to dental caries and affects the growth of root, even if the teeth are replaced, they will be uneven and affect the' face value'.
It is easy to cause discomfort such as otitis media.
Children who drink milk from bottles often prefer to drink milk lying down, but milk may flow into the middle ear through the eustachian tube, thus providing nutrition for the growth of bacteria and causing otitis media.
Weak chewing and swallowing ability
After the baby is one and a half years old, the flow rate of the bottle is very fast. Being used to drinking milk from a bottle will make you feel full because you eat too fast. And it will make the baby lazy to eat the food that needs to be chewed, so that he can't exercise, chew and swallow well.
Affect the development of tongue coating, leading to late speech.
Cui Yutao's book "Scientific Feeding" says that chewing ability will directly affect children's speech problems. Because drinking with a bottle for a long time will make the baby's maxilla and teeth develop, in addition, using a bottle will suck hard at the mouth, which will squeeze the maxilla and tongue, leading to abnormal oral muscle development and affect speech.
When do you quit bottles?
The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that babies can learn to drink water from cups and eat with spoons at the age of 7-8 months, and at the same time promote the coordinated development of hands, eyes and brain.
We know that there are so many dangers in using bottles for a long time, so we should pay attention to them. It is of great benefit to the baby's growth and development to let the child quit the bottle at the right time.
Don't underestimate this time node. For the baby fed with milk powder, 7-8 months, when the self-awareness has been gradually established, the muscle development is also relatively strong. This is a good time to exercise yourself to eat independently. But in our country, 9 out of 10 babies didn't quit the bottle on time! Moreover, some mothers think: "Let's just let it go if we can't quit, so that babies and adults can worry."
Parents should never underestimate this little bottle. Let's take action for the healthy growth of the baby. However, some parents want to say,' I understand the truth, but how can it be so simple to quit bottles?' ?
Quit the third-class bottle.
As we said before, when the baby is 7-8 months old, you can start training the child to drink water from a cup, so as to gradually quit the bottle. But most babies may have missed this period, and some even started using bottles at the age of 3-4. However, parents need not worry too much. It takes a step-by-step process for babies to quit bottles and adults to quit smoking and drinking.
Here are some suggestions from several stages and difficulty.
1, primary-change the water cup. Prepare more cups for the baby. When you are 7-8 months old, if you feel that you are afraid of choking your child with an open cup, you can choose a straw cup or a duckbill cup.
When using the straw cup for the first time, you can use it to drink water first. If the baby can suck skillfully and does not resist, it can be used for milking. /kloc-slowly open the cup after 0/year old.
Tip:? The use of duckbill cup and straw cup can be used as a transition in the process of giving up the bottle, but because their shapes are similar to those of pacifiers, long-term use is not good for the baby. The ultimate goal should be to let the baby learn to use the open cup.