#Teething is a normal part of your child's development, not a sickness!
Normally, babies are born with a full set of teeth underneath their gums.
When the teeth underneath the gums erupt or break out through the gums,we call it teething. And it occurs between the age of 6 to 24 months of age.
When they reach 3 years, their first set of 20 teeth shall have completed.
Due to this eruption of teeth through the gums,your baby might show symptoms like;
- chewing on objects
-drooling of saliva
- lack of appetite
- mild irritability &
- occasional sore gums which may be swollen & reddish.
Fever, cough, diarrhea, and cold symptoms are not found when a child is teething
These symptoms are mild and can relieved using these simple method.
- rubbing the child’s gums either with a clean finger,hum-rubbing finger pad, giving the child 'teething rings' to chew on or a clean damp washcloth.
All these is done to relieve stress and discomfort the baby feels during the teeth eruption.
However, i have heard some people say things like you can use antibiotics to treat the 'teething' because whenever a child is teething the child always fall sick.
Hehehehehe!!
This is not true, children don't fall sick because of teething and they don't need antibiotics.. All these are myth!! Pls ignore them for the sake of your baby's health.
If by any means your child falls sick during teething that means something else is wrong teething doesn't come with sickness,it only comes with mild discomfort.
Whenever the child is having fever, diarrhoea, vomiting, convulsion or difficulty in breathing, they are usually due to other problems, not teething!
It could be malaria, diarrhoeal disease, febrile convulsion, pneumonia, or some other disease, but not teething.