Baby Teething Symptoms
BY M Lai
Baby teething symptoms include excessive dribbling (drooling), irritability, face rash, cough, ear pulling, finger and fist sucking, and red swollen gums. You may find your baby will be biting down on everything they can put into their mouths during this time to help relieve pressure from their gums.
These signs of teething usually become apparent as long as a few months before the tooth becomes apparent.
Other baby teething symptoms which many mothers advise their infants experience include diarrhoea and nappy rash, rash over body and fever. Although these symptoms are not medically linked to teething, so if your baby does experience these symptoms you should check with your healthcare professional to make sure there is no medical reason why your baby has these symptoms, do not assume that it is caused from teething.
If your baby does seem to be in discomfort during teething, you can help your baby during this time by rubbing teething gel onto their gums to provide some relief from the pain and offering a teething ring for your baby to bite down on to counterpressure the pain.
A baby's first teeth usually appears from approximately 6 months onwards, however, some babies first teeth may appear later, even up to 12 months of age. While other babies teeth may cut through earlier, some babies have even been known to be born with a tooth!
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