I believe that most parents with children at home will find their children especially fond of sweets. My two children are like this. When they see sugar, their eyes will glow. Although I know that eating too much sugar is bad for my teeth, sometimes I can't beat my children. However, do parents know why children like candy so much?

This is because children have more taste buds on their tongues than we adults. There are only about 9,000 taste buds for adults, but there are more than 20,000 taste buds for children. Among them, the taste buds of sweet food are the most developed and the number is the largest. This is why children like to eat sugar.

Everyone knows that eating sugar is bad for children's teeth, and it is easy to grow worm teeth, which is medically called dental caries. Therefore, everyone will do everything possible to stop eating sugar. But I think it is better for children to learn to eat sugar to prevent tooth decay. This can make children understand the consequences of eating sugar, and also let children learn self-control.

There is a certain relationship between sugar and tooth decay, but we should not blindly link them together, but analyze the relationship between them.

In fact, the formation of dental caries is related to the quantity, frequency and way of eating sugar. It can be seen that eating sugar only once can not cause dental caries. Eating sugar can cause dental caries because food with high sugar content is easy to stick to the tooth surface. If it is not cleaned in time, it is easy to produce bacteria, and then lactic acid will be produced, which will decalcify the tooth surface and cause dental caries. Therefore, it doesn't matter if children eat more sugar. As long as the method is proper, dental caries will not happen.

So, how can parents let their children eat sugar without dental caries?

1. Control the frequency of sugar intake.

We have said before that the frequency of eating sugar is related to dental caries. Studies have found that high-frequency sugar consumption can provide metabolic substrates and energy for oral microorganisms and maintain the acidic environment with low ph value of dental plaque for a long time. In addition, adding sweets between meals and before going to bed will obviously increase the severity of dental caries.

Therefore, we can do this:

Seize the opportunity for children to eat sugar. Try not to give children sugary food between meals and avoid giving them sugar before going to bed.

Grasp the time when children eat sugar. Some parents give their children a bad habit of eating sugar, let them sleep and play with sugar or let them eat a lot of sugar. In fact, it is best to control the time of eating sugar within 20 minutes every time, and don't let children sleep and play with sugar. This is not only bad for teeth, but also dangerous for children. Once the sugar accidentally gets stuck in the trachea, it's too late to regret it.

2. control the amount of sugar you eat.

Many parents, even knowing that eating too much sugar affects their children's tooth quality, can't resist their children's soft grinding and hard foam, and finally surrender and let their children eat nonstop.

I think the best way in this situation is to reach an agreement with the children. That's what our family requires children to do, so first of all, adults should agree, and the effect will be remarkable. So my two children have been controlled to give them candy since childhood. I told them in advance that they can only eat once a day, and they can only eat three or four at most. Although, sometimes children don't want to obey, and then they cry and make trouble, we all obey the rules to the end.

Later, when they know that crying like this can't get what they want, they should stop making trouble and become a habit over time. Therefore, even though Bao Xiao is now more than two weeks old, every time someone gives him candy, he will say "one is fine" and he doesn't want any more.

3. Try to choose less candy with strong caries-causing ability.

Studies have found that the acid-producing ability of candy varies with the molecular weight and chemical structure of candy. Among all kinds of carbohydrates, sucrose has the strongest cariogenic ability. In addition, foods with high sugar content are also very likely to cause dental caries, such as sticky foods and starchy foods.

This is because the candy with strong caries ability stays in the mouth for a long time, so dental plaque will have enough time to ferment sugar to produce acid. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the sticky sugar for children.

4. Clean in time to protect your teeth.

Although bacteria can damage teeth, as long as they are not long, they will not cause irreversible damage to teeth. Generally speaking, the plaque matures in 12 hours. Therefore, it is best to brush your teeth once every morning and evening, so that the bacteria will be cleaned up every 12 hour, and they will not be given time to reproduce and develop. Of course, it is better to rinse your mouth after eating candy every time.

It can be seen that parents do not necessarily have absolute control over their children when they eat sugar. As long as you master the positive solution, you can make your child's teeth healthy.