How to get rid of milk scale on the baby’s tongue needs to depend on the cause of milk scale. If it is physiological, you can feed the right amount of warm water, etc.; if it is pathological, such as indigestion, thrush, etc., can be treated with medication under the guidance of the doctor.
1. Physiological. Infants in drinking breast milk or milk powder will generally appear after the phenomenon of milk scale, if the milk scale is relatively thin, no other symptoms of discomfort, you can feed a small amount of lukewarm water between two feedings; if the milk scale is thicker, the use of disposable sterile gauze dipped in lukewarm water or baby special silicone brush gently wipe the milk scale, pay attention to the special silicone brush for infants need to be sterilized before the teeth sets.
2. Pathological. If the baby milk scale is thick, at the same time there is bad breath, bloating, etc., then consider that it may be indigestion, you can take probiotics and other medications.
If the white patches are not easy to wipe off with a wet gauze, and if the infant is in severe pain and irritable, poor appetite, crying, sometimes accompanied by mild fever, it may be thrush, then you need to use 2% to 5% sodium bicarbonate cleaning, or mycobacterin suspension wipe.
Therefore, when you find that the milk on the tongue of the baby is thicker, and at the same time there are symptoms of discomfort, you need to go to the hospital in a timely manner, under the guidance of the doctor to use medication.