Teething symptoms
How do I know teething is the problem?
Teething can cause sensitive and painful gums, along with mouth ulcerations. This can result in crying, difficulties with feeding and sleepless nights for babies and parents.
Typical teething symptoms include:
- Increased fussiness, crying
- Red swollen gums
- Excessive dribbling
- Constant chewing on fingers
- Increased demand for the breast or bottle
- Rejection of the breast or bottle due to sucking pain
- Loss of appetite
- Interrupted sleep
Teething is also readily blamed for a multitude of childhood illnesses. It’s difficult to tell if other symptoms such as fever or cold-like symptoms are caused by teething but it’s unlikely. Often teething coincides with a child becoming more social and coming into contact with other children and germs, resulting in a cold or other infection.
