From these few hints, it must have been seen how much the sufferings from teething may be mitigated by judicious management.
If a child is teethingwith difficulty, it should always have its quantity of nourishment diminished.
During teething there is generally much torpor of the bowels; here, then, castor oil is a very appropriate and useful artificial means of increasing the frequency of the alvine discharges.
The irritation caused by difficult teething may give rise to diarrhoea at the period when the infant is weaned, independently of the weaning itself.
Teething under such circumstances is always attended with more or less of disturbance of the frame, and disease of the most dangerous character but too frequently ensues.
The pillow, however, after the sixth month, should be made of horsehair; for at this time teething commences, and it is highly important that the head should be kept cool.
During teething the mother must be especially watchful, for it is at this time that the disease so commonly appears; the irritation produced by this process being a frequent exciting cause.
It therefore becomes a very important question to an anxious and affectionate mother, how the dangers and difficulties of teething can in any degree be diminished, or, if possible, altogether prevented.
This same teething is a tiresome process, comprising the change of the first set of wee ivories for the permanent forty-two which are to carry the owner through life.
Fits, very much like mild teething fits, are not uncommon in run-down dogs suffering from anaemia and the likely corollary, worms.
As a general rule it may be laid down that the dog is a puppy no longer at ten months, when his teething is almost always entirely completed.
Some times teething fits go on increasing in frequency and severity until they merge into epilepsy, and the dog is lost.
Thus it is that summer puppies, born in the spring, with all the best weather before them, do so much better than those which have the critical teething period to pass through in winter time.
Teething fits should be treated, as far as medicine goes, exactly as suckling fits.
There is usually some warning of teething fits, as staring eyes, etc.
This condition is pretty sure to mean teething fits, of which more anon.
There are numerous widely advertised nostrums frequently sold as soothing syrups to be used during the teething or during attacks of diarrhea, or cough spasms, croup, or worms, that contain dangerous drugs and should not be given to children.
Under no circumstances urge the baby to eat when he refuses his food, when the gums seem swollen and red during the teething time.
It is wise to vaccinate babies before the teething period--from the third to the sixth month.
The chief bar to the increase in numbers of this species appears to be the teething troubles to which the whelps are liable.
Suppose that several members of a litter were all bright blue, and that these suffered from no teething troubles.
For teething there was a famous Anodyne Necklace, which was warranted to cure all disorders from teething, providing it was properly used.
This is especially good in cross, nervous, teething babies.
A special cracker is now made in the form of a ring; it is quite hard and composed mostly of malt sugar and is intended for teething babies to bite on.
Children should be vaccinated before they are four months old; those who have never been vaccinated, should, except teething children, be vaccinated at once.
It will not do to say they are due to teethingor worms.
This is most often seen from the seventh to the tenth month and frequently occurs when the child is teething and sometimes in the very hot weather.
The restriction, as to vaccinating teething children makes it important that children should be vaccinated before the teething process has begun, because smallpox is very much more dangerous than vaccination.
Teething is late, and the teeth that do appear decay.
An infusion of chamomile is good for the green diarrhea of teething babies.
It should be remembered that teething is not a disease, but a natural process, which might be influenced by the digestion in any part of the globe.
During teething the child manifests a desire to bite on something, and a soft rubber ring will give it great comfort.
But these teething saints in the town churches had a too broadminded way of speculating upon their very narrow moral margins and too few steadfast convictions of any sort.
She could do anything from pulling fodder to nursing a teething baby, and all you had to do to get her was to need her.
The days when I believed everything I was told did not run much beyond my teething time.
If she had teething to attend to, she thought of nothing else day or night, and communicated with the family on no other subject.
But now we have no teething baby; little Raymond is a strong, healthy child, and Una remarkably well for her, and money is so slow to come in and so fast to go out.
Of course the baby must go on teethingif only to have the doctor sent for to lance his gums.
It is sufficiently unfortunate that teething should commence just at this period; but when we add another cause of irregular action, which we can control, to one which we cannot, we act very unwisely.
By this is not meant that we should do so while the system is under the irritation to which teething usually, or at least often, subjects it.
Teething is strictly the period when the voluntary center of the lower plane first comes into full activity, and takes for a time the precedence.
Indeed, teething children play the very deuce with a husband's temper.
I have known three promising young husbands completely spoil on their wives' hands, by reason of a teething child, whose worrisomeness happened to be aggravated at the time by the summer-complaint.
As an experiment, when during the progress of teething a child is suddenly seized with convulsions for which there is no obvious cause.
The fits, which cease in the teething child when the gum is lanced, and which, on each succeeding return are equally relieved by the same proceeding, do not imply that there is any great tendency on their part to become habitual.
In our tables of mortality we find teething registered as having occasioned the death of nearly 5 (4.
Such cases, however, are not frequent, and the eruption is not more troublesome than those which often appear in teething children.
The discharge of whites is sometimes very troublesome, and apt to return from the commencement of teething up even to womanhood.
Though a perfectly natural process, teething is almost always attended with some degree of suffering.
Independently of that antecedent it comes on sometimes about the time of the second teething in nervous and impressionable children, in whom an attack may be produced by indigestion, constipation, or over-fatigue.
XXX-40] The teething repast took place when the child had attained his seventh month, and the weaning supper when he began to eat.
The other was the mother of the teething child spoken of above, and the wife of the tall parent who nursed it.
He carried in his arms a teething baby, very dirty and ill-dressed, and tried to nurse and soothe it on his knee, the mother being totally incapacitated by seasickness.
On conditions of equality, those children who cut their teeth in the winter get over the teething period the best.
In the second chapter Fauchard speaks “of the maladies of children at the period of teething and of the remedies best adapted thereto.
Nervous children who had convulsions while they were teething are susceptible to violent attacks at the commencement of various diseases or during the developmental stage of the eruptive fevers.
An overloaded stomach, worms and digestive disturbances that accompany teething irritate the bowels and from this too convulsions ensue.
Oh, the other appeared to be teething too; but, as you say, I think it is most like she did see the difference, but being out of the country I heard nothing about it.
When it exists at a very early age, it will retard teething until recovery takes place.
In these graver cases teething is probably but one of the morbid influences at work.
Evidently, the period in which rachitis is developed exerts its influence on the teething process.
Irregular teething is a constant companion of maxillary rachitis, but is also present where the latter is not well, or not at all, marked.
Ipecacuanha is said by Bartholow to be extremely serviceable in the diarrhoea of teething children with greenish stools containing mucus or blood.
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