What to do if your nine-month-old baby has bad breath

Nine-month-old babies have bad breath, may be related to not pay attention to oral hygiene, indigestion, oral inflammation and other reasons, can be improved through general treatment, medication and other ways to improve the symptoms.
1. Not pay attention to oral hygiene: to maintain oral hygiene, you can use cotton gauze dipped in warm water to clean the mouth after each feeding, drink water in time after eating, clean the mouth, avoid eating hands, biting toys and other behaviors.
2. Indigestion: Babies should pay attention to diet, to light, easy to digest food, avoid eating too greasy, hard food, keep eating regularly, avoid overeating. Probiotics, such as Bifidobacterium bifidum, Lactobacillus acidophilus, etc., and proprietary Chinese medicines, such as Wake Up Spleen Nourish Children Granules, Infant Spleen Oral Liquid, etc., can be taken as prescribed by the doctor for treatment to improve the symptoms of bad breath.
3. Oral inflammation: when the baby in the eruption of milk teeth triggered inflammation of the gums, or the presence of thrush and other oral diseases, may cause symptoms of bad breath, the baby should pay attention to oral hygiene, drink more water, often wash the bottle, clean the nipple before breastfeeding and so on.
Can follow the doctor’s instructions to use 2% sodium bicarbonate solution to clean the oral cavity, or topical application of mycobacterin cod liver oil suspension solution, but also the use of antibiotics, such as cefixime, etc. or antifungal drugs, such as flucytosine, etc. for treatment, to alleviate halitosis.
It is recommended that patients strictly follow the doctor’s instructions for medication, actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment, pay attention to observe the development of the disease in life, if the symptoms continue to worsen or other discomforts, you should promptly seek medical attention.