When you decide to drift down that lovely walk of life and start a family in the city of Leeds, it’s a beautiful time. But without seeming like the grim reaper, you are going to have to put in a lot of planning for the next 15 years in order to get your child through it all, especially when it comes to looking after their teeth: it all starts in the beginning when your baby is born and the first thing that you are going to have to be ready for is the point when your baby starts teething. This is the moment when the first teeth break through the gums and it will be painful for your child. The best thing you can do is to find a paediatrician so that you have someone you can call if things start to go wrong. You can soothe the pain that your child maybe suffering from with gels, mild painkillers or by throwing cold water at their gums. Then you can help speed up the process by getting your baby to chew on things so that it helps to split the gums open and let the teeth through. It isn’t the easiest time, but it needn’t be the hardest time either, just so long as you get your act in order and get good people on your side who you can get to with a phone call.
In the city of Leeds, all of us are born with different thresholds to pain. This is also the case when it comes to any type of dental pain and especially with teething. It’s normally a problem associated with babies, but if you consider the pain that a wisdom tooth can cause as it breaks through the skin, it’s pretty much the same for a baby. It can start as early as 3 months and then anywhere up to 3 years and although some children may not be affected at all by the problem, it can be hell for others. The symptoms normally start around five days before the teeth come through. The gums may swell and the child become agitated, restless and cry a lot, coupled with drooling and the desire to chew on things. But the problems are treatable, not altogether painless, but soothing. Special teething toys are designed for chewing on and there are gels, herbal remedies such as clove oil, and medicines designed to act as a numbing agent and similar to how an adult would approach a toothache or a breaking wisdom tooth. Pain killers are available to babies of a certain age although caution should be taken when choosing this method. If there are any doubts at all on the correct line to take, or should complications arise, a paediatrician should be consulted.
Having a baby is fraught with health issues as you try and ensure that the process of growing is not too painful for your infant. One of the issues that many parents face is that of teething. This is when your baby’s first proper set of teeth begin to come through.
