BABY BOTTLE SYNDROME AND EARLY BABY CARIES How do parents avoid causing baby bottle syndrome and early baby caries? Can teaching and educating parents on how to properly care for infants after feeding help prevent baby bottle syndrome and prevent early baby caries.
Baby bottle syndrome and early baby caries is a disease that’s affecting many infants and children around the world. This has become a problem dealing with low socioeconomic; poor living environment, lack of health care and lack of education. Without the proper education many parents are having profound effect on their infant’s toddler and children teeth and that should be a big concern. Childhood caries begins before the child is born if the mother don’t maintain a healthy diet during her perinatal period while
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Many mothers fail to realize that they are the first source of passing the bacteria causing tooth decay to their infant early on during pregnancy and after postnatal birth by breast feeding and sharing their feeding spoon or licking the infant’s pacifier. Baby bottle syndromes causes tooth decay that occurs rapidly in infant while naptime or bedtime after they are placed in there bed with a bottle of liquid high sugary substance that they suck or drink during bedtime at night when sleeping Then flow of the saliva glands decreases allowing the sugar to start to settle on the teeth, which cause breaking down in the dentin on the enamel causing tooth decay. .Still till this days, parents are still putting their infants to bed with a baby bottle, pacifier and juicy cup for calming, giving them fruit juice, milk formula, and others liquids that are naturally high in sugar .After a long period of time the bacteria in the mouth begins to thrives or grow from acids that comes from the sugar and attacks the teeth that lead to early baby caries. That's when the tooth decay is present it's usually affecting the front anterior teeth and also the posterior in early
The case study that I chose to focus my literature review on is concerning premature babies who developed Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC) from a milk thickener that was given to them while while was on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and which some babies were discharge home on. In one example of this occurrence, which I will use to guide my search for literature, the staff on the NICU had noticed that the baby’s heart rate slightly slowed down when he ate, so they thought that he was having difficulty feeding. To combat this difficulty the staff added a thickener, SimplyThick, to his feedings. When he was discharged home they gave the thickener to the parents to take home with them. Thickening foods makes them easier to swallow because it allows them to move more slowly in the mouth giving more time for a patient to close their airway, which can prevent aspiration (Queensland Health Dietitians, 2007). SimplyThick is a thickener made of Xanthan Gum, which is a substance commonly added to thicken foods for adults. There is a lack of information on how safe Xanthan Gum is for babies. SimplyThick was marketed to speech language pathologists as being easy to dissolve in breast milk as well as maintaining its consistency when mixed. These pathologists recommended SimplyThick as an additive to milk for babies with problems swallowing.
Feeding a baby is an indispensable duty of a parent. Part of that duty includes making
57 cleft lip and palate babies were randomly assigned at birth to feeding with a syringe (intervention) or feeding with cup and spoon. Group 1 consisted of 38 syringe fed babies and Group 2 consisted of 19 cup and spoon fed babies. All babies that had both unilateral or bilateral cleft lip and palate who could not latch onto the breast or feeding bottle were selected for the study. For a control group, 55 normal babies who kept to an immunization schedule for the first 14 weeks without any history of ill health were studied. Both of the cleft groups were compared to these 55 normal babies. The group of 55 were breast-fed directly or with a feeding bottle. The cleft babies were followed up weekly to assess the type of feed and difficulty in
“Commercially prepared infant formulas are a nourishing alternative to breast milk, and even contains vitamins and nutrients that breastfed infants need to get from supplements (Pearl, E., 2015). Breastfeeding is proven to strengthen the immune system for children of all ages. While a mother nurses the infant, the mother passes down nutrients and antibodies from the milk the babies drink while nursing. Like immunizations building invulnerabilities for people destructive illnesses, breast milk gives additional antibodies to infants to help them. Nursing sessions are less demanding to retain and process the formula since it contains living development elements, hormones, and chemicals which help an infant to effectively process all healthy intake from each feeding (The Office on Women’s Health, 2012). Further, in creating nations, scientists found that for newborn children who were not breastfed have danger of dying from irresistible infections, in the primary month is six times more prominent than babies who were breastfed (Chen and Rogan, 2004). Children that are breastfed have less problems with digestive systems due to the breast milk, a standout amongst the most essential advantages of breast milk is the containing living parts, for example, contamination battling antibodies, white platelets, red platelets, and hostile to viral components (Taylor, 2013). All which are essential to the growth of a newborn's digestive system that formula does not
The biggest decision a new mother has to make is not what to name the baby nor is it which hospital to deliver at. The biggest decision to make is in fact whether she is going to breastfeed or formula feed. Many women choose to formula feed because they aren't very educated on breastfeeding or because they feel they can't due to the fact that they failed the first time or times that they tried to do so. If they were aware of all of the benefits of breastfeeding, I feel that more mothers would breastfeed rather than formula feed. Three benefits of breastfeeding are that it is healthy for both mom and baby, it builds a stronger bond, and it is more convenient. If more information is given to new mothers, it would help them make the best
Works Cited http://www.babycenter.com/404_will-my-breastfed-baby-get-gassy-if-i-eat-certain-foods_9233.bc http://www.livestrong.com/article/34344-foods-avoid-breastfeeding-gassy-newborns/
Children are often sweet and adorable, but many times they may be eating too many sweets. According to the Channel Four News, it has been shown that the number one disease in children is the reoccurrence of caries, also known as cavities. Could it be too many sweets or could it be the lack of flossing and brushing teeth? For instance, many children go to bed or wake up without brushing their teeth and go throughout the day eating all sorts of food and candy. The result of eating and not brushing could lead to plaque build up and decaying of teeth. This leaves a child extremely unhappy and in excruciating pain. So who is going to fix this pain? Who is going to help prevent decay in millions of people’s mouths? Today, the world is lucky to have a well-studied field of dentistry.. Dentistry has much history, various specialties, advancements, and an irresistible salary.
The rapid physical growth of an infant which we talked about earlier is fueled by the nutrients that the infant receives. Without the proper nutrition,infants cannot reach their physical, and cognitive potential. It is important to breast feed your baby until they turn one, but if that’s not an option bottle feeding is widely accepted as
By remaining exclusive to human milk, the premature infant has an increase in benefits and outcomes. This change in recommendation is due to the benefits of human milk which include “decreased rates of late-onset of sepsis, necrotizing enterocolitis, retinopathy, sudden infant death syndrome, fewer re-hospitalizations in the first year of life, and improved neurodevelopmental outcomes.” (Underwood, M. A.). Due to an underdeveloped gastrointestinal tract, it is shown that preterm infants require smaller amounts of human milk than a full-term baby. It is crucial to teach mothers of preterm infants, that the colostrum or milk they produce is sufficient. If the mother does not produce enough milk, she should be directed to a donor human milk bank or talk to a lactation consultant. Nevertheless, it is crucial nurses emphasize the importance of reducing formula feeding and implement exclusive
The oral cavity is the body’s first defense. Almost all basic daily functions such as breathing, eating, sensation, and immunization, involves functions of the mouth. In children, there is a connection between what happens in their mouth to what happens to the rest of their bodies. Having a toothache will directly affect a child’s life. A child may have problems eating and sleeping because of childhood caries leading to a negative impact on physical and cognitive development of the child. A cross-sectional study, undertaken by Acharya and Tandon (2011), found that 57.6% of the children in the group had problems eating. Childhood caries creates a cycle of poor health. Eating problems adversely affect a child’s nutrition and poor nutrition can lead to a higher risk of caries and therefore increase problems with eating affecting the physical development of the
A child’s eating habits begin with the mother. Taste researcher Julie Mennella, PhD states “We’re finding that foods eaten during pregnancy and lactation can influence a baby’s willingness to accept those foods later.” A mothers influence on eating does not end with lactation, she should continue to model healthy eating. Mothers should make it a point to not allow their children to consume soda or overly sugary fruit drinks, instead offer water and more importantly milk.
The lack of knowledge and awareness can cause an increased risk for chronic diseases that can impact a patient’s way of life. There is also a correlation between nutrition and the oral cavity, which a poor diet can cause an increase risk for dental caries.
Truby King’s writing on the value of children's teeth acts as more of a metaphor to emphasize the value of children's health on a whole. Truby King uses the example of teeth not only because oral hygiene genuinely was a concerning problem for adolescents in the early twentieth century but because the example of teeth was able emphasize the importance of developing healthy habits for children straight from the womb. ‘The decay of teeth could be prevented if the matter were only set about early enough and in the right way’, new advances in science and medicine warranted such bold claims that the health of children begins long before the baby is even born. The stance that Truby King has taken, clearly reflects the perspective that good health starts with the mother and runs the course of life; ‘from the cradle to the grave’. Making such scientific research public knowledge was the first step in creating a better society in New Zealand on a whole.
With the arrival of a newborn, parents are immediately faced with myriad of decisions. Should they use cloth or store-bought diapers, co-sleeping or a crib, and what parent gets what shift during the night are just a few. However, one of the most important and more personal choices is between a formula based diet or breastfeeding for their baby to receive his or her required nourishment. It has been proven time and time again that the benefits of breast milk over formula are numerous: they include health, emotional, mental, and financial benefits with the convenience of non-preparation. Breastfeeding is not only the most natural way to provide nutrition for a baby it’s also the most complete way. These benefits do not only benefit the baby, but they benefit the mother as well.
Although tooth loss typically is associated with the elderly, edentulism can also affects children and adults if they do not practice proper oral hygiene.2 a. Trauma Babies and young children are most susceptible to losing teeth prematurely due to trauma, because their tooth roots and gums are still developing. If parents do not take the proper — and often immediate — steps to deal with dental trauma, their children's oral health can be permanently affected. Adults, particularly those who participate in sports or suffer accidents affecting the face, also are at risk for tooth loss. Toddlers and children have the risk of two types of traumatic tooth loss: prematureloss of baby teeth and loss of permanent teeth due to injury or neglect. b. Dental caries