Even if your night's sleep is quite deep, you, like any mom, wake up from time to time to check whether the small one is hidden, whether the sheet has slipped ... Is everything fine and the karapuz peacefully sleeps, putting the handle on the floor on the cheek? That's good. Perhaps, you can rest easy ... So it would be, if one day you did not hear any strange sounds, something resembling a click, with a crib. They last for a maximum of ten minutes, and then from the baby crib again only a measured snuffling is heard. Are you trying to figure out how this could be, and the imagination draws terrible pictures? Do not worry so much. At this very day, the specialists have several versions of the occurrence of this phenomenon.
Cause 1. Teething teeth
When the teeth are chopped, the gums will swell. They ache and ache, and to relieve this condition, the crumb can try to scratch the first teeth against each other. As a result, the baby grinds his teeth, and you hear these unpleasant sounds. Often they occur and other situations, older children are older. For example, with malocclusion, defects in the structure of the facial skeleton, pathology of the joints that connect the lower jaw with the temporal bone. And yet, when the milk teeth are replaced by permanent ones. Of course, to understand all this and find out what is the reason for the night gnashing, it is quite difficult for a layman. But you have the opportunity to timely identify and avoid problems with dentistry (wear of teeth, dentin abrasion, tissue inflammation). You just need to contact an experienced doctor!
Cause 2. Worms are to blame
In the days of our great-grandmothers, when asked about unpleasant sounds at night, they gave an unambiguous answer : "If a child grinds with teeth, it means that it is wiped with worms." Accordingly, the treatment of bruxism was reduced to getting rid of parasites. This point of view still exists today. However, before doing anything, she needs to find confirmation. Laboratory tests will help to identify helminths (blood test from a vein, scraping, feces analysis, computer diagnostics). Wisdom of our ancestors pushed you on the right path and you found the reason why the baby grinds his teeth in a dream? Well, it's time to start treating helminthiasis.
Cause 3. It's from nerves
To the opinion that all diseases are from the nerves, more people are leaning. But very few people know that this applies to bruxism. It is believed that such an ailment can be one of the symptoms that speak of disturbances in the work of the nervous system. During the rhythmic reduction of the masticatory muscles, there are changes in the pulse, blood pressure, and breathing. Based on this, some physicians even put bruxism on a par with such diseases as somnambulism, enuresis.
What leads to a nervous breakdown? All the same negative emotions, stresses (for example, the output of crumbs into a kindergarten, strict punishment), a tense atmosphere in the family (parent quarrels) ... In this connection, the toddler experiences complex feelings: internal confusion, instability. And his hidden emotions are in a dream paroxysmal contractions of muscles, compression of jaws and gnashing of teeth. That's the reason.
How to help the child?
And a pediatrician, a dentist, and a neuropathologist will prescribe a small treatment (drugs, phytotherapy, special procedures), depending on the cause of the ailment. But do not sit idly by.
• Be sure to talk with your child. Perhaps you will find out, that caused stress and scratching with your teeth in a dream, what is the reason;
• Do not feed the baby before bed, otherwise the muscles of the jaw will not have time to relax;
• Avoid active games in the evening. Fighting, skipping rope-catch-ups are canceled! Now is the time to read a book, draw. Even better - get a family album with photos and, plunging into pleasant memories, look through it together.