How to deal with baby's bad breath? Internal and external regulation is the key

Some careful mothers will find that their baby's mouth has more or less some smell. So, how to deal with the problem of bad breath in babies?

How to deal with baby's bad breath

1. If there is a problem with the baby's gums, you should pay attention to oral hygiene. If there is already a problem with the gums, you should seek timely treatment. After the treatment, there will naturally be no more oral problems.

2. If the problem is not caused by disease, you need to pay attention to dietary conditioning and eat some stomach-nourishing foods that are suitable for the baby's stomach. This is the only way to truly solve the problem. If the bad breath problem is serious, you can temporarily use some folk remedies to deal with it, but these are only temporary solutions and not the root cause.

What to eat for bad breath in children

1. Children with bad breath should eat some vegetables such as celery and carrots. These vegetables help the secretion of saliva. The large amount of saliva secretion helps clean the mouth, remove the residual residue in the mouth, and restore the mouth to clean and healthy. This is because vegetables also contain a lot of nutrients that are beneficial to the growth of children.

2. Bad breath may also be caused by hydrogen sulfide, and the substances in yogurt have a certain inhibitory effect on hydrogen sulfide. Therefore, it is beneficial for children to eliminate bad breath by drinking yogurt regularly. At the same time, yogurt also contains certain substances that prevent bacterial growth, which is also beneficial to health.

3. Bad breath is mainly caused by an imbalance in the digestive system. Apple cider vinegar has a good effect on promoting digestion and absorption. The substances in apple cider vinegar can also restore the balance of the digestive system, which is helpful in eliminating bad breath caused by indigestion.

4. There are many kinds of fruits that promote digestion, such as grapefruit, kumquat, apple, etc. Regular consumption of these fruits can not only supplement various nutrients, but also strengthen the spleen and stomach and remove bad breath, which is beneficial for restoring children's fresh breath. At the same time, it can also effectively remove food residues in the mouth and promote digestion.

Five tips for preventing bad breath in children

1. Cultivate the habit of paying attention to oral hygiene in children from an early age, and make sure they rinse their mouths after meals and brush their teeth in the morning and evening.

3. Prevent indigestion. When indigestion occurs, you can take some digestive and gastrointestinal motility drugs appropriately.

2. Eat regularly. Eat more vegetables and fruits, a good mix of coarse and fine foods, don’t be picky, don’t eat biasedly, and don’t overeat.

4. Pay attention to the prevention and timely treatment of caries and malocclusion. Eat less sweets, especially before going to bed.

5. Use Chinese medicine decoction of reed root, mint, and patchouli, or 1% hydrogen peroxide, 2% soda water, 2% boric acid water, etc., and choose one of them to gargle with to reduce or eliminate bad breath.

Five dietary treatments for bad breath in babies

In fact, there are many reasons for baby's bad breath. In addition to the bad breath caused by daily living habits, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there may be some minor problems with the baby's body. You can choose some dietary therapy prescriptions from the corresponding symptoms to help alleviate the symptoms of baby's bad breath. However, these dietary therapy prescriptions are medicines. If the baby is young, the mother should consult a doctor before deciding whether to give them to the baby.

1. Bad breath caused by stomach heat accumulation

The symptoms of stomach heat accumulation are bad breath, dry tongue, red and swollen gums, etc. Treatment principle: clear the stomach and drain heat.

Selection of Chinese medicinal materials: The main medicines include Coptis chinensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, Cimicifuga heracleifolia, Cortex Moutan, Angelica sinensis, etc.

Recommended diet therapy: Raw land honey water

Ingredients: 2-3 grams of raw earth, a small amount of honey

practice:

Add 2-3 grams of raw Rehmannia root to water and boil for 30 minutes. After the liquid cools down, add two spoons of honey and stir evenly.

2. Bad breath caused by excessive spleen and stomach fire

Excessive fire in the spleen and stomach manifests itself in mouth sores, bad breath, dry lips, etc. Treatment principle: Clear and purge the latent fire in the spleen and stomach.

Selection of Chinese medicinal materials: The main medicines include Patchouli, Gypsum, Gardenia, Saposhnikovia, Licorice, etc.

Recommended diet therapy: Patchouli porridge

Ingredients: 15g Patchouli, 50g Japonica Rice, some water

Wash 15g of Patchouli (30g of fresh ones), put it into an aluminum pot (you must use an aluminum pot), add water and boil for 5 minutes, discard the residue and take the juice for later use. Then wash 50g of polished rice, add appropriate amount of water into the pot, boil it on high heat, then simmer it on low heat, when the porridge is cooked, add Patchouli juice, boil it again and it is ready to eat.

3. Bad breath caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency

Liver and kidney yin deficiency is manifested by weight loss, soreness of waist and knees, dry mouth and throat, and bad breath. Treatment principle: nourish the liver and kidney.

Selection of Chinese medicinal materials: The main medicines include cooked rehmannia, yam, wolfberry, cornus officinalis, etc.

Recommended food therapy: Chinese wolfberry and yam steamed cake

Ingredients: 100g yam, 185g rice flour, 100ml milk, 1 pinch of wolfberry, 1 teaspoon of sesame seeds, 2 tablespoons of honey, 2 tablespoons of fructose

practice:

Peel and clean the yam, cut it into small pieces, and blend it in a blender. Then add milk, honey, and rice flour and mix well. If you don't have ready-made rice flour, you can grind rice into rice flour in a blender. Pour the rice flour and yam paste into an oiled container, sprinkle wolfberry on it, put it in a steamer, and steam it for 15 minutes. After it comes out of the pot, sprinkle black sesame seeds on it, and then drizzle fructose on it. It tastes better when it's hot.

4. Bad breath caused by intestinal heat

Intestinal heat manifests as constipation and bad breath. Treatment principle: nourish yin and relieve constipation.

Choose Chinese medicinal materials: Mothers can choose senna leaves, Ophiopogon japonicus, Cassia tora and other medicinal materials to make tea for the baby, which will have a good effect.

Recommended diet therapy: Ophiopogon japonicus porridge

Ingredients: 20g Ophiopogon japonicus, 50g Japonica rice

practice:

Wash 20g of Radix Ophiopogonis, add water to the pot and boil, discard the residue and take the medicinal juice for later use. Wash 50g of polished rice and put it into an aluminum pot, add appropriate amount of water, then add appropriate amount of Radix Ophiopogonis juice and rock sugar into the pot, put it on high heat to boil, and cook it on low heat until done.

5. Bad breath caused by food stagnation

This is because the baby overeats, overeating hurts the spleen, food stagnation cannot be digested, and the rancid air rises, which causes bad breath. Treatment principle: digest food and relieve stagnation.

Selection of Chinese medicinal materials: The main medicines include hawthorn, Shenqu, Poria, Pinellia, Tangerine peel, Radish seed, Forsythia suspensa, etc.

Recommended diet: Fried rice porridge with tangerine peel

Ingredients: 30g rice, 5g tangerine peel

practice:

After washing the rice, fry it in an iron pan over low heat until it turns yellow, then put it into the pan with tangerine peel and add appropriate amount of water to cook porridge. After the porridge is cooked, add a little salt or brown sugar to season it.