Measures to Cut Down Pacifier Sucking Habit

What is Thumb Sucking? Thumb sucking is the common habit of many children in their childhood. They generally put their thumb in their mouth for having comfort. Nearly half of all the children suck their thumbs during the period of infancy that is below 2 years. Parents generally try to abate the problem by harshly scolding the children and some parents even beat their child to assuage this habit. We cannot admonish parents for this behavior because they feel that this type of behavior as the solution. The shocking thing is that fetuses sucking their thumb found in ultrasound pictures of intrauterine life. Some children put soft blankets and toys also in their mouth. Generally, the child above 4 years will stop habitually sucking their fingers, but other children have prolonged habit. Due to the thumb sucking the children’s teeth are misaligned and dentist should be consulted. If the children prolonged the habit even in school hood they will be abused and commented by the children. But there are also some advantages, by thumb sucking the baby calms down. Even after breast feeding, the child still clamors the sucking action. They need a non-protein food, so the thumb is the best choice for them. And mom’s can happily sleep during night time. The babies do not disturb her to feed milk. Do you know why the babies’ suck their thumbs? Infants need sucking as a separate habit from breast feeding. Most babies suck their thumb when they get tired or when they are feeling bore and the other reason is they feel comfort. They feel thumb sucking as entertainment which mother needs to provide. Substance on the thumb to stop the child from thumb sucking: • They generally use a bandage temporarily to protect the thumb to be kept in mouth • They even glove the hand. • Pediatric dentists use braces to avoid this problem. Braces with gates are mostly used. • You can even attract the children by illustrating them some storytelling. For example, telling that a doll like binky fairy never sucks its thumb and you can even habituate them playing with the puppets. In such away you can eliminate your child’s habit of thumb sucking instead of feeling stressed. Disadvantages: Along with the advantages we have, there are more disadvantages due to thumb sucking. hey are as follows: • Thumb sucking reshapes the bone at jaw line and teeth grow out of alignment. • Upper teeth will come outside and down teeth will go inside. It also leads to speech related problems • This long lasting habit leads to abnormities and growth of palate which results in poor placement of tongue. Therefore there exist the problem of chewing and swallowing. • Not only these, Due to thumb sucking the miniature bacteria present in our hands enters into our body through mouth and this leads to cause many infections and sometimes even cause viral fever. Many dentists intimate to moms that 50% of the diseases are being caused due to the habit of thumb sucking only. So, as said before mom’s need to kindly approach their child and tell the child about disadvantages.

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