Babies sometimes have small conditions in their mouths, either due to disease or as a result of growth and development. Mothers should know how to identify and deal with it! Horsetooth 1.Characteristics The yellowish-white blob that grows on the edge of the gum or on the palate, like the size of a grain of rice, some of them look like milk teeth that have just erupted, and the number varies. 2.What is the reason? This is not a milk tooth, but the embryonic development process of the residual epithelial cells gathered and keratinized the formation of “epithelial beads”, belongs to the normal physiological phenomenon of newborn babies. 3.What does the baby feel? Generally there is no discomfort, some babies may have local itchy and swollen feeling because of more horse teeth, and they love to bite the mother’s nipple when eating milk. 4.How to deal with it No treatment is needed, most of the horse teeth will fall off on their own within 1 month. The mother must not pick the horse teeth with a needle or wipe them with a cloth, otherwise it will damage the baby’s oral mucosa and easily cause infection. Thrush 1. It occurs on the surface of the oral mucosa as white dots or flakes, slightly raised, with varying sizes, and can gradually fuse into a large area. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish thrush from the milk lumps left in the baby’s mouth after feeding. The mother can gently wipe the plaque with a cotton swab, and if it is easy to wipe off, it is a milk lump, and if it is not easy to wipe off, it is thrush. 2, what causes thrush, also known as snow mouth disease, is caused by Candida albicans infection, mostly seen in small babies, especially newborns, malnutrition, diarrhea, long-term use of broad-spectrum antibiotics or hormones of the baby is also prone to occur. From the mother with bacteria in the birth canal, incomplete sterilization of the bottle or pacifier, contaminated daily supplies (such as clothes, diapers, toys, etc.) can make the baby infected with Candida albicans. Teething stage of the baby because of gum discomfort will often eat hands, bite things, which is also a common cause of infection. 3, what the baby feels Generally there is no obvious pain, does not affect feeding, sleep. When the disease is serious, there may be pain, and the baby will be irritable, do not like to eat milk, low fever and other phenomena. 4, response method Mycobacterium is a good medicine for thrush, dissolve 1 tablet of mycobacterium in 10 ml of plain water, or grind the tablet into a powder and mix it with the right amount of cod liver oil, and rub the baby’s thrush, apply it once every 4 hours, and it will be cured after two or three days. In addition to treatment, the baby’s personal hygiene should be done, and all kinds of utensils should be kept clean, especially bottles and pacifiers should be cleaned and disinfected by boiling. The mother should wash her hands and clean her nipples before breastfeeding. Map tongue 1, the appearance of round or oval red spots on the tongue, can be a single, can also be multiple; lesions can be expanded or fused with each other, there are similar to the map border-like pattern, surrounded by a white-yellow slightly elevated curved edge, the center is red. The lesion site is wandering, today it looks like this, tomorrow it may change its shape and location, so this disease is also known as benign wandering tongue inflammation. 2, what causes The cause of the disease is not very clear, may be related to poor digestion, nutritional deficiencies (such as zinc deficiency, iron deficiency), poor health and other factors, may also be related to intestinal parasites or gastrointestinal dysfunction, mood swings, and has a certain genetic predisposition. 3.What does the baby feel Generally no discomfort, may feel a little numb when eating stimulating food. 4, the response parents better take the baby to the hospital to ask the doctor to help find the cause, and then for the cause of treatment; if the cause can not be found, there is no need to do special treatment, but pay attention to a regular life, reasonable with the diet, not picky eater partiality. Herpes pharyngitis 1, the appearance of the characteristics of the herpes is mainly concentrated in the mucous membrane near the throat area, the number varies from a few to dozens, 2 to 4 mm in diameter, grayish white, surrounded by a red halo. The herpes appear a day or two after ulceration to form small yellowish-white ulcers. 2, what causes Mainly caused by coxsackie group A virus infection, through the respiratory tract or fecal-oral transmission, more contagious. 3.What does the baby feel? It can be manifested as sudden high fever, irritability, vomiting, swollen and painful lymph nodes, and due to pain in the throat, the baby has salivation and refuses to eat. And some babies have almost no systemic symptoms, just a few small herpes in the mouth, which somewhat affects eating. 4, response methods Like herpes stomatitis, herpes pharyngitis is also a self-limiting disease, the course of the disease in about 1 week. If your baby is generally well, no special treatment can be done, as long as the diet is light, drink more water, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, get more rest and pay attention to oral hygiene. The more serious cases can be treated with ribavirin and herbal medicines to clear the heat and detoxify the body. The sick baby should be isolated to prevent infection to others.