A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . to have itoccur early. Even under normal conditions the edges of thegums in teething become swollen, rounded, andreddened as the teeth come near the surface. Thesaliva is at the same time increased in quantity, andthe mouth is heated and uncomfortable, so that thechild desires constantly to bite upon any objectthat may be at hand. A healthy child should notsuffer in any way from the process of dentition, andwhen the point of the tooth comes through thegum the local symptoms may vanish. These arecut in groups, there being an
A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . to have itoccur early. Even under normal conditions the edges of thegums in teething become swollen, rounded, andreddened as the teeth come near the surface. Thesaliva is at the same time increased in quantity, andthe mouth is heated and uncomfortable, so that thechild desires constantly to bite upon any objectthat may be at hand. A healthy child should notsuffer in any way from the process of dentition, andwhen the point of the tooth comes through thegum the local symptoms may vanish. These arecut in groups, there being an interval of rest be-tween the eruption of each group. The following diagram will illustrate the orderin which the teeth are cut. The numbers I to 5 FEATURES OF INFANCY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. 219 show to how many groups the several teeth belongand the order in which the groups appear. Theletters a and b show the order in which the teethin each group appear. Bottle-fed babies are more apt to be late cutting 1 dentition. Fig. 33- or 4 2 a & 2 2 3_. 3 113b & Diagram Showing Eruption of Milk Teeth.* 1. Between the fourth and seventh months. Pause of three to nine , 2, 2, 2. Between the eighth and tenth months. Pause of six to twelveweeks. 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3. Between the twelfth and fifteenth months. Pauseuntil the eighteenth month. 4, 4, 4, 4. Between the eighteenth and twenty-fourth months. Pause of two to three months. 5, 5, 5, 5. Between thetwentieth and thirtieth months. their teeth than those that are breast-fed. If noteeth have appeared when the child is a year old,we may know that the childs general nutrition * From Starr, Diseases of the Digestive Organs in Infancyand Childhood. 220 OBSTETRICAL NURSING. is at fault, or it may have the disease known as Bottle-fed babies are also apt to have their teeth come through the gum in irregular order. This frequently is an indication of lack of health, although sometimes it is a family te
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