How to do oral care in children

Mouth temperature, humidity and food residue, ideal for bacterial growth and reproduction.
Healthy children, strong body resistance, generally do not cause disease. When children
are sick, due to decreased immunity the body, drinking water, eating less, saliva
secretion was also limited, as the bacteria multiply and create the conditions, it can
easily lead to inflammation of the mouth, so that oral mucosal ulceration, resulting in
bad breath, and even affect the sick child appetite and digestive function, but also can
result in laryngitis, otitis media, suppurative parotitis and lower respiratory tract
infections such as pneumonia complications. Therefore are neither brush your teeth, gargle
a sick child, do oral care is very important.
Oral care for the sick child to do wash their hands before, so that sick children side
with a towel or cloth single-Wai in the submandibular and pillows on the sick child to
prevent the wet clothes and pillows. When do care to clamp the grip with saline, warm
water, or 1-3% of the soda water-soaked cotton balls (cotton stick dipped into the liquid
baby wipe can be used), the first gum brush cheeks inside and outside, and then rub inside
and gingival the tongue, teeth, the occlusal surface. Each wipe a part of, or at least to
replace a cotton ball. Note Do not touch the throat in order to avoid nausea. If the sick
child without mouth, can be used thumb, index finger to pinch the cheeks sick child, if
necessary, can be used spatula or spoon handle to help distraction. After scrubbing, wipe
with a towel, face and mouth, lips dry and the children can be coated with lip oil or
vegetable oil; a mouth ulcer for more thorough cleaning, when circumstances so require
coated with aureomycin cod liver oil, nystatin, ice boron Bulk or other drugs.
Do oral care, the use of the items should be clean, disinfected before being used. Note
that too much cotton ball dipped into the solution is not to prevent respiratory tract
disease caused by inhalation liquid infant choking. Operation moves to be gentle, tampons
should be clamped to prevent the cotton ball fall into the oral cavity to the respiratory
tract by aspiration after the accident.