When a child is born in a family, parents start worrying about their health. They try to notice in time the signs that would indicate the beginning of the disease. Some of them can not be overlooked. For example, you can easily notice white bloom on the tongue of a newborn.
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What does white bloom in tongue mean?
It is not always white plaque on the tongue of the baby means the occurrence of a disease. is he may occur after feeding. If a newborn is fed with milk formula, then residues can remain on the tongue. You can wash them off with boiled water, giving her baby a drink. Breast milk can also leave marks, which can also be easily washed off with some water. In no case can not remove the raid by force, scraping it, otherwise the skin of the tongue can be damaged.
Doctors believe that causes of white bloom on tongue may be harmless and unsafe.
Safe for baby scaling in the following cases:
- If it is the remnants of milk formula or breast milk.
- The remnants of regurgitation after feeding.
- The harbingers of the fact that soon the baby will start teething.
- Very often with a sore throat, a child has a white tongue. This should not be frightened, because with his recovery, these symptoms disappear.
Worth worrying aboutif plaque forms due to the following reasons:
- When thrush. In this case, the tongue is covered with a touch of curd consistency and it is almost impossible to remove it.
- When viral stomatitis. It occurs when a child has scarlet fever, chickenpox, measles, and other infectious and viral diseases.
- In violation of the stomach and intestines. This may be dysbacteriosis, constipation, ingestion of poor-quality food, gastritis, the early start of feeding, violation of gastric acidity.
- Disorders in the nervous system, neurosis.
- If you are allergic to the use of antibiotics.
- Diabetes.
- If the immune system is weakened, hemoglobin in the blood has gone down.
- With anemia, lack of vitamins.
The correct diagnosis can be established only by a doctor, so you should not postpone the visit to the pediatrician.
Treatment of white bloom on the tongue of a child
In many cases, white bloom does not require special treatment. For example, it is enough for a newborn to give a little water to wash off the remnants of the mixture or breast milk.
If the raid is enough dense consistencyis not washed off with water, you need to urgently go to the doctor to establish the cause and prescription of treatment.
In case of malfunction of the stomach and intestines, the main disease is first cured. After it is cured, white bloom will disappear. The food system should be restored to normal, it is necessary to remove from the diet of the child all foods that do not meet his age, it is better to start feeding up a little later.
To tidy up the baby’s nervous system and cure neurosisshould consult a pediatric neurologist. After treatment, the white coating will disappear by itself.
If a child has viral or infectious diseases, treatment should be serious enough. The baby's body temperature may rise, it starts unpleasantly smell out of your mouth. Self-healing can worsen the situation. Difficult cases require treatment in a hospital setting. For example, stomatitis should be treated only under the supervision of a physician, so that he does not become chronic.
Thrush covers tongue newborn thick white bloom. To remove it, use a solution of baking soda, wetting a soother in it. Additionally, the oral cavity of the infant is treated with diflucan.
In all cases, the child must be given vitamins of group B, multivitamins, observing oral hygiene.
Traditional methods of treatment
Together with the main treatment, you can additionally use traditional methods of treatment. The most popular of these is the use of natural honey. It is well protected from germs, fungi, reduces inflammation. Honey is applied to a clean finger or cotton swab and gently treat the inner surface of the baby’s mucous membrane. But it is worth remembering that honey is a strong allergen, so you need to use it with caution.
To enhance its antibacterial action, mix honey and turmeric. The result is an effective disinfecting mixture, which is also applied to the inner surface of the mouth.
If the child does not suffer from allergies, you can rub his tongue with freshly squeezed lemon juice. It will not only remove white bloom, but also destroy all harmful bacteria.
Prevention of white blot
It is easier to prevent the occurrence of the disease than to treat it. This is especially true of young children. Prevention should be as follows:
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It is necessary to monitor the cleanliness of objects and toys, to wash hands whenever there is a need to take a newborn, to boil its bottles. - A child from birth should have its own dishes.
- It is better not to kiss the baby, because an adult’s saliva may contain herpes fungi and viruses, and the newborn’s immune system is still very weak.
- After each feeding the child must be given a little boiled water to wash off the leftovers.
Thus, an important condition for preventing the disease in a child is personal hygiene parents. Timely treatment to the doctor allows you to prevent the development of complications.
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