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TEETHING
- Freeze a banana, then let baby sooth her gums
- Let baby suck on cold washcloth
- Try putting water in a baby bottle, freeze the bottle upside down (so the water is frozen at the nipple)
- Offer a teething biscuit
- Stick a spoon in the fridge for a few hours, let baby have at it. The cold metal against the gums will feel great
- Cold foods
- Refrigerate a bagel, good for babies to gum on
- Let baby gum on peel cleaned full size carrot
- Orajel and Anbesol
- Gently massage baby’s gums
- Keep baby’s mind off his or her gums
- Chewing helps teeth work their way through the gums, any object that is clean, nontoxic, chewable, and too large to block airway should it get swallowed
- Freeze a pickle, best for babies over 1 year old
- Slices of cold peaches in a feeding teether
- Freeze breast milk in cubes, put in a teething feeder or freeze around a pacifier in a cube tray
- Cold celery sticks
- Frozen pineapple in a teething feeder
- Rub a slice of peeled ginger root on baby’s gums
- Breast milk slushy
- Fruit juice slushy
- Put a little Pure vanilla extract (not imitation) on a Q-tip and rub on gums
- Frozen waffles
- Freeze baby teethers
- A semi-frozen washcloth
- Hylands Teething Tablets-Hylands Teething Tablets is the most well-known of the homeopathic teething medications, contains chamomile, coffee cruda, and belladonna
- Camilia is benzocaine, paraben, and belladonna-free. (It’s vegan) They come in in single-use liquid doses that you squeeze out into your baby’s mouth
- Boiron’s Camilia is a combo of: German chamomile, Poke, and Rhubarb, Together, helps alleviate baby teething pain associated with sore gums (chamomile), irritability (poke) and tummy troubles (rhubarb)
- Apply clove or peppermint essential oil to gums. Essential oils are extremely potent, so you should always blend them with a pure carrier oil like coconut oil before applying
TOOTHACHE
- Apply raw garlic puree to area
- Apply onion to area
- Apply moistened tea bag to gum
- Soak a cotton ball with a few drops of clove oil and place this on the affected tooth or inside the tooth cavity for instant pain relief
- Chew on a few whole cloves to release the oil
- Rinse mouth with a warm salt water
- Applying cold compress to outside of cheek just outside the area of pain
- Dab some whiskey to area
- For severe toothache, make a tincture using tea tree oil, clove, cayenne & peppermint. Apply with a Q-tip as often as necessary
- Take a pinch of salt and apply directly to the painful area.
- Rub tooth with alcohol for about five minutes, (don’t swallow)
- Rinse mouth with Listerine
- Put 1 teaspoon dried peppermint leaves in 1 cup boiling water/ steep/cools/ swish it around your mouth, then spit it out or swallow
- Swish and spit a mouthful of 3% hydrogen peroxide solution, rinse
- Place small ice cube in a plastic bag, wrap a thin cloth around the bag, and apply it to the aching tooth for about 15 minutes to numb the nerves
- Place ice pack on cheek over painful tooth
- Rinse mouth with myrrh tincture, simmer 1 teaspoon powdered myrrh in 2 cups water/steep/strain/cool
- Asafetida: Add 1/2 teaspoon powdered asafetida to 2 teaspoons lemon juice, warm slightly, apply solution to affected area with Q-tip
- Chew a few guava leaves until juice starts working on affected tooth
- Chew a few raw spinach leaves until juice starts working on affected tooth
- Extract the juice of wheatgrass, use it as a mouthwash
- Apply a few grains of cayenne pepper to your affected tooth
- Make a paste by mixing water and cayenne pepper, apply to tooth
- Soak cotton ball in apple cider vinegar, hold cotton ball to affected tooth and gums for few minutes, repeat as needed
- Apply a piece of raw potato, hold it against aching tooth
- Soak cotton call with fresh lime juice, hold to affected tooth
- Drinking fresh lemon juice daily
- Rinse mouth with fresh lemon juice
- Rub aching tooth with fresh lemon juice and salt
- Soak cotton ball with a few drops of peppermint oil, dab on aching tooth
- Soak cotton ball with a few drop of tea tree oil, dab on aching tooth
- Chew on a fresh plantain leaf
- Apply a paste of baking soda and salt to aching tooth