How to Care Your Baby When He or She Is Drooling

In the digestive process, saliva has the functions of wetting food and making easy to swallow when people are eating. Saliva contains enzyme amylase and lipolysis which can ferment and decompose some of nutrients of food to let body absorb.

In addition, saliva is a natural lubricant that can lubricate the esophagus and balance the acidity of the esophagus. Children and babies, as well as adults, can produce saliva to promote normal digestive process. Adults and children can control their saliva, but babies are not able to.

Babies have not learned to swallow saliva, so saliva can only flow in or out their mouths. Drooling phenomenon will surge when the babies are in four months. Some experts regard this as the symbol of beginning to swallow solid food, and babies have not learnt to close their mouth all the time, so saliva will flow out after they open their mouths.

Many parents are worrying about drooling babies, since baby can not keep clean when drooling. Therefore, parents should have a lot of knowledge of make their babies clean when saliva flows from their mouths. The following six tips will these parents.

Tip One
Babies who are growing teeth like to bite their fingers, which may cause deformation of fingers and may affect normal tooth eruption. Therefore, parents can give their babies healthy and safe gum to chew for training, as well give children to eat molar cookies. The baby about six months can be added some food supplement at appropriate time to promote the development of digestive system.

Tip two
Parents should pay attention to the oral hygiene of drooling babies. In the early infant period, mothers can use soft gauze to clean mouth, and after they have ability to take care of themselves, urge them to develop the habit of brushing teeth in the morning and evening and washing mouth after meals.

Tip three
Acidic saliva has some stimulating effect, so parents should always wipe the saliva for the baby who often drools saliva and then wash their chin with warm water, with applying baby oil without stimulation around the mouth and chin to prevent acidic saliva to injury chin and neck skin. The handkerchief which is used to wipe mouth and chin should be very soft, cotton materials best, and should be usually laundry for sterilization. Do not rub too hard in case of local skin injury.

Tip four
Some babies who drool too frequently often wet their shirts, which can easily cause colds and other disease. Thus, tie a baby bib or towel to prevent the saliva wetting clothes.

Tip five
Parents should consciously strengthen the baby’s ability to suck, swallow when they add food supplement to their babies. After babies begin to grow teeth, it is
necessary to minimize the flow food or heavily cooked food, instead, choose more solid food (such as egg cakes) to improve their chewing ability.

Tip six
After two years old, parents can train children’s oral muscle contractility through using the methods of drinking with a straw, and blowing balloons. These exercises
can solve saliva problems.

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