Childhood Tooth Blues!

Today was not a fun day for my eight year old. Poor guy's tooth hurt! We don't know why it hurts but the wonderful city of Cruces doesn't actually have an emergency dentist on call to help our little guys when this goes wrong, so we are stuck dealing with his pain on our own, until the morning when we can get to a dentist. 

In today's world moms are programed to run for the Motrin or Tylenol to dose up there kids with hope to try and help their pain go away, and in my option if you don't have any other way to cure pain, that might help but only for a short while. 

What do you do when the pain comes back and you can't give them more meds? 

When your child has pain the last thing us as parents want to make our child do is deal with the pain because it hasn't been over four hours and we can't give them anymore, so we don't know what ells to do.

Now in our home we don't use over the counter meds of that kind due to the avdertse side effects they create in your stomach, and you can't use them more than once every 4 hours!

Encountering the tooth pain problem with my eight year old son and not being a family who usually keeps Tylenol on hand I had to be more creative. Being a mom who studies herbalism my main focus for treatments is herbs, so when my son started having the pain I ran to my research to see what I could find to help him, until the morning when we could ask a dentist why he has pain. I ran across some interesting ways to deal with tooth pain but didn't have the usual recommend fast healers like clove oil; which I will be making later and sharing with all of you, so I used an off approach and was pleasantly surprised at how well it worked.

Many people use peppermint to cure the headaches they get from time to time because it works extremely well in the form of a tea.

 Did you ever wonder why peppermint work so well with pain? Did you also know you could use it for many kinds of pain?

Peppermint acts as an anti-spasmodic, diaphoretic, digestive, antiseptic and slightly anesthetic in its properties, and depending on how you use it and what you use it for, peppermint can help in many ways.

Today we used it for my son's tooth pain because I did not have clover oil made to numb his tooth. How we used the peppermint in regard to his tooth pain was not in the form of a tea, but with the use of the tea bag.

Because peppermint has a slightly anesthetic nature to it you can take the tea bag moist, in either hot or cold water, roll it up, and place the bag between the teeth that are causing pain. The tea within the bag acts instantly on the gums that are inflamed and the pain will gently go away. The best part about using peppermint in this fashion is if the pain returns you can grab another tea bag and repeat the process. 

This is not meant to cure any underlying condition; especially regarding teeth, but if you can't get to the dentist and you need some relief for your kids until you can see a professional, this works great!

My son is back to himself and we are off to the dentist in the morning, but I'm sure its just his new molars growing in.