5 year old child has bad breath all the time, what's going on
Bad breath in a 5-year-old child may be caused by physiological factors or pathological factors. Such as poor oral hygiene, tooth decay, indigestion, etc.
1. Physiological factors
1. Improper diet: If you don't pay attention to the health of your child's diet and often give your child some spicy and irritating food, it may cause a burden on the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in food accumulation, and it will also be accompanied by symptoms of bad breath. You can adjust your child's eating habits appropriately and eat more easily digestible liquid foods, such as millet porridge and pumpkin porridge, which can effectively alleviate symptoms.
2. Pathological factors
1. Poor oral hygiene: If you do not do a good job of tooth cleaning, it will lead to food residues remaining between your teeth, which is easy to breed bacteria and produce odors, so the above situation will occur. It can be improved by brushing your teeth, and rinsing your mouth after eating.
2. Dental caries: If you do not pay attention to your child's oral hygiene, it will damage your teeth, and even induce diseases such as dental caries, which will cause symptoms such as pain and soreness, and will also affect the normal chewing function, so it will cause the above phenomenon. Patients need to go to the hospital for treatment, such as extraction of the affected tooth, or they can be treated with resin restoration.
3. Indigestion: If you overeat or eat too much gas-producing food for a long time, such as sweet potatoes and soybeans, it can slow down gastrointestinal peristalsis, which will affect the normal digestion and absorption of food.
It is recommended to take prokinetic drugs according to the doctor's instructions, such as domperidone tablets, mosapride citrate capsules, etc., to promote food excretion, and probiotic preparations, such as Bifidobacterium triple viable bacteria powder, Bacillus subtilis double viable bacteria granules, etc., to regulate the intestinal flora and help relieve uncomfortable symptoms.
In addition, it may be caused by Helicobacter pylori infection and other reasons, and it is recommended that parents take their children to the doctor for examination and treatment in time. In daily life, we should pay attention to a reasonable diet, try to be light, and avoid spicy and greasy food.