Maternity gums are swollen and painful, can be treated by taking antibiotics, topical mouthwash, local rinsing medicine and other ways. 1. Taking antibiotics: After giving birth to a woman due to physical weakness, decreased resistance, gums are prone to swelling, bleeding and other phenomena, you can take cephalosporin antibiotics, metronidazole tablets and other drugs to anti-infective treatment, but you need to pay attention to the use of the doctor’s orders. After using the medicine for a period of time need to follow the doctor’s advice to avoid breastfeeding. 2. Topical mouthwash: If you have swollen and painful gums after giving birth, but you can’t take antibiotics because of breastfeeding problems, you can use topical solutions such as metronidazole gargle or chlorhexidine mouthwash to relieve swollen and painful gums. However, these drugs should be used according to the doctor’s instructions. 3. Local rinsing: If the gums are swollen and painful, the routine use of rinses can not be relieved, it is best to go to the hospital stomatology alternately using hydrogen peroxide and saline rinse gingival sulcus, clean up foreign bodies and inflammatory substances, and in the gingival sulcus placed in the composite iodine glycerin solution for anti-inflammatory.