Need Help for Baby Stink Breath

while persuing what is ingested why not just try to wipe her mouth out with a wet wash cloth, especially her tongue several times. My boys (pre schol and infant) both get formula and milk build up on their tongues and nothing gets it clean like a wet washcloth and several swipes of the tongue rinsing it off each time. It makes a difference, better than toothbrush and tongue wiper. It is an easy immediate solution while persuing the other things. Good luck!

i'm not sure if this will help you, but sometimes my daughter gets stinky breath and i just give her something sweet smelling to eat. for the past couple of months (she just turned 2) she's been big on eating apple slices and bananas. when she eats these sweet (yet healthy) snacks her breath tends to smell like the sweet snack and not that yucky breath. maybe that could help you?

definetly have her drink more water. It could be food particles trapped also. So after a meal have her drink water instead of juice and milk. it will also help flush the sugar from her teeth.

Hi S.,
It would be helpful to find out why your daughter has post nasal drip in the first place. One of the biggest reasons is eating too much dairy which could cause the PND, and also white flour products, which both cause excess mucus. Too much sugar is also a problem.
I would be sure she is drinking enough water too.
P.

use aQtip dipped in very mild mouth wash to swab her toungh and mouth especally after a feeding

Check out the book, Keeping Your Kids Healthy with Chinese Medicine by Bob Flaws. It will explain symptoms that you are describing as "dampness" and will offer suggestions for shifting the diet to less damp forming foods. No worries! It's not about "chinese food", it's looking at food in another way. chinese medicine is thousands of years old and is extremely effective in utilizing a food/ lifestyle based solution that will keep your kids out of the doctors office and safe from toxic prescription and OTC drugs!

Good luck!

no suggestions but I had to laugh...our boys suffer from the same thing (post nasal drip) --and we too have a 4 year old newfie!

powdered baby-dopholus. it's a gentle form of acidopholus that is often found in yogurts, etc. it is a live culture that helps restore balance in the intestine and stomach where the stinkiness comes back from and will help alleviate much for that problem. also, restoring balance in the digestive tract contributes to a stronger immune system and overall wellness so you may find pnd may subside as well.

My 3 year old has the same problem. He saw his pediatrician, an allergist and an ENT. He was on Allegra D for a while and it helped. We also use a saline solution spray, which helps keeps his sinus passage moist without additional medication. Good luck!

talk to the pediatrician. It may be coming from her gastromical track and not necessarily her mouth. I worry about brushing her tongue since you could wear off some of the taste buds over prolonged practice.

You may want to see an ENT for that. My nephew had stinky breath forever and no one knew why. ENT finally discovered that his tonsils were huge and held on to excess mucus and stuff, which caused the stinky breath. The tonsils were removed and no more stinky breath! Ask her pediatrician for a referral and perhaps you can get to the bottom of it.