Baby Bottle Tooth Decay
This area of the teeth is most often affected by BBTD.
What are the upper front teeth?
The name of the tube that connects the middle ear to the back of the throat.
What is the eustachian tube?
Colic usually begins after this age.
What is two weeks old?
Feeling an infant's forehead.
What is an easy way to tell if an infant has a fever?
OPV/IPV vaccine protects agains this disease.
What is polio?
BBTD cause these problems in permanent teeth.
What is pain, infection, crooked permanent teeth, and decay?
Colds and allergies, bottle feeding, and tobacco smoke.
What are some risk factors for ear infections?
Doing this household chore while holding an infant in a carrier may soothe it.
What is vacuuming?
Glass thermometers are not recommended because of concerns about exposure to this toxin.
What is mercury?
Vaccines help make thise disease-fighting substances.
What are antibodies?
This is the cause of BBTD.
What is long periods of time when an child's teeth are in contact with liquid other than water?
Children between these ages are most likely to get ear infections.
What is three months and three years of age?
Feeding an infant in this way may help prevent colic.
What is sitting up?
Fevers are generally more serious in babies under this age.
What is three months old?
DTP Vaccine protects against these three diseases.
What is Diphtheria, Pertussis (Whopping Cough), and Tetanus (Lockjaw)?
The ingredient in some drinks that gets turned to acid by germs in the mouth.
What is sugar?
Blockage in the eustachian tube causes fluid to build up here.
What is the middle ear?
Avoiding this while breastfeeding may help prevent colic.
What is caffeine or spicy foods?
If a baby's temperature rises very quickly, he or she may have one of these.
What is a febrile seizure?
MMR Vaccine protects against these three viruses.
What are measles, mumps, and rubella?
This is the first symptom of BBTD.
What are white spots on the upper front teeth?
Three out of the six symptoms of ear infection.
What are pain, loss of appetite, trouble sleeping, fever, draining, hearing problems?
Sometimes colic is a sign of this more serious digestive problem.
What is a bowel obstruction?
Normal body temperature for a healthy infant is between these degrees.
What is 97 and 100.4 degrees F.
VAR Vaccine protects against this childhood illness.
What is chicken pox (or varicella)?