Children's mouthwash: how to choose and use

Healthy teeth from early childhood are the key to future health.

All parents wish that their children never have to deal with diseases of the oral cavity and teeth, therefore they are concerned with the question of how to preserve their health than rinsing your mouth after eating, especially if you are out of the house, when there is no way to prepare a decoction or home remedy.

For this, children's mouthwash developed by many manufacturers and laboratories will come to the rescue.

Why use a rinse aid?

Children's mouthwash is a liquid product with the addition of various decoctions and chemical compounds, which help fight bacteria and microorganisms in the mouth and keep teeth healthy and clean.

Funds can be divided into several types:

1. Hygienic function: the composition of the funds contains special biological and chemical compounds that fight bacteria that multiply after meals and during the day. Helps cleanse areas of the mouth that are difficult to reach with a toothbrush, i.e. disinfect the child's mouth and get rid of unpleasant odors. It is especially important to use mouthwash for children who wear
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2. Healing function. The composition of such rinses often includes natural medicinal ingredients that help to fight the onset of diseases (with stomatitis, caries). They contain fluorides, which help to maintain healthy teeth, as well as healing ingredients that accelerate healing of wounds in the mouth, prevent inflammation and help in the postoperative period to fight against possible purulent processes.
3. Preventive function. The mouthwash is a good tool in the prevention of oral diseases. It helps to learn how to properly care for your teeth from early childhood. These include mouth rinses that are used before and after brushing your teeth. They contain an antiseptic preparation Chlorhexidine, extracts of plants, berries, essential oils.

Parents should be aware that mouthwash has an age limit. Preventive or therapeutic agents are best chosen with the help of a dentist, and also take into account the restrictions for children with allergies.

Age restrictions apply to children under 6 years old who still do not know how to properly rinse their mouth and often swallow liquid. This can negatively affect the walls of the stomach, cause discomfort and even poisoning. Therefore, for children under 6 years old, the use of a professional rinse is possible only on the recommendation of a doctor.

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Varieties

It is possible to choose the most suitable remedy for a child only when it is known exactly how it works.

The main types of rinse aids:

1. Before brushing your teeth - helps to highlight areas in the mouth with the help of special components in its composition, which color the most polluted areas (bacteria, plaque, tartar). After such a procedure, it will be easier for the child to cope with brushing his teeth, and the parents will see emerging problems.
2. After brushing your teeth - a good remedy for removing and disinfecting the mouth from the remaining microbes in places inaccessible to a toothbrush. It kills germs and unpleasant odors, and also has a healing effect if mechanical damage to the gums and mucous membrane occurs with a toothbrush or dental floss.
3. Anti-caries contains fluorides, antiseptics and calcium in its composition, which help to strengthen tooth enamel and keep teeth from the effects of cariogenic bacteria. It is especially important to use such a mouthwash for children who have a tendency to dental diseases or caries at an early stage.
4. Natural contains in its composition only natural products, without artificial chemical components, alcohols, sugars or dyes. These are most suitable for young children from 6 years old, who may accidentally swallow some liquid. In addition, they taste good, fight foreign microorganisms more effectively and freshen breath.

The choice of one of the types depends on the desire, the availability of the product, the child's problems and the financial capabilities of the parents.

How to choose?

The dentist will help you make the best choice according to your child's needs.

Rinse aid should be selected depending on:

• from the composition;
• on the age of use;
• from taste;
• from certain dental problems.

Depending on the composition:

Composition	Stamps
Synthetic ingredients	Colgate, Oral-B, Asepta, Parodontax, Glister Amway, Mexidont dent
Mixed: synthetic and natural ingredients	Listerine, Ice Age, President, Elmex
Only natural ingredients	Forest Balsam, Rocks, Drakosha, SPLAT Healing Herbs, Astera Kids Apple, 32 Pearls, Dental Watch, Doctor Bright Strawberry Sky

Depending on the age, rinses are chosen that contain more natural ingredients, often such products are used for both adults and children.

Before buying, you should pay attention to the instructions, which should indicate from what age it is allowed, often the minimum age is determined at 6-8 years.

Manufacturers delight buyers with a wide selection of flavors of hygiene products. Baby rinses can be fruit flavored, tasteless, and anti-allergenic.

Depending on the solution to dental problems, it is worth noting the following means:

1. "Drakosha" (from 6 years old) helps to cope with bleeding gums, acts as an antiseptic, relieves inflammation, strengthens tooth enamel.
2. "Rox" (from 6 years old) at an early stage protects and helps to cope with cariogenic bacteria, refreshes the oral cavity.
3. «New pearls"(From 14 years old): the line of products is very large, helps to cope with caries, provides gum care, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect, freshens breath, reduces bleeding gums, cares for tooth enamel and strengthens it thanks to the composition of calcium and fluorine.
4. "Curasept" (from 14 years old) helps with the presence of implants, braces, solves problems with caries and periodontal disease.
5. "Miradent Cry Agent" (from 6 years old) is used before brushing teeth, identifies the most contaminated areas, acts as an indicator.
6. Colgate Sensitive Plus helps to eliminate caries problems, cleans and refreshes the oral cavity.

In pharmacies and shops, a wide selection of any rinse aid for children, the main thing is to choose the most suitable one.

When and how to start using?

It is necessary to start rinsing the oral cavity from 1.5-2 years. For such an early age, there are no worthy rinsing fluids, so you can use boiled water or a warm decoction of herbs for rinsing, teaching the child to hygiene.

From 6-8 years old, you can already start using professional means for cleaning the oral cavity, but under the close supervision of adults.

From the age of 14, a teenager can already use adult mouthwash in a lower dosage.

Most rinse aids are equipped with special dispensers or measuring containers to help you choose the right amount of rinse liquid.

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How to apply correctly?

A parent or dentist should help a child learn how to use the mouthwash correctly.

It is important to explain why it is necessary to rinse and clean the teeth, preferably referring to the well-known fairy tales and cartoons ("Moidodyr", "Queen Toothbrush", "Fixies", "Malyshariki") and kind colorful description. And also talk about how important it is to do this in the morning (after sleep) and in the evening (before bed). That a lot of liquid should not be taken into the mouth, because it will be impossible to drive water from side to side.

It is not difficult to determine the volume of liquid, for this there is a measuring container in the rinse aid, if it is not there, then you can use a tablespoon or teaspoon (depending on the age of the child). Explain to your child that the liquid should be moved quickly in the mouth, from side to side. You need to start the procedure from half a minute to 1.5 minutes at a time.

In this case, an adult can help the child by counting the rinsing time and observing the correctness of the procedure.

It is important to instill in the child the habit of maintaining oral hygiene, then in the future he will avoid many problems and diseases.