All you need to know in a nut shell

Precaution is indeed better than cure.

Nose Breathing and Disuse Atrophy

Muscles if stopped using, will get lousy. Disuse atrophy occurs when a muscle is no longer active as usual.

Nose is for breathing and failure in doing so will result in improper growth of nose muscles and associated bone.

Nose breathing prevents sleep apnoea, snoring, bedwetting and filters the air that enters the lungs. In children it also helps to improve attention issues.

ABCD Square understands the importance of nasal breathing and gives training for children to learn proper breathing techniques.

Breastfeeding

The age old grandma tale of asking women to maintain the right posture while breastfeeding has a lot of science that goes into it.

Feeding a child lying down causes recurring ear infection and dental caries. Pooling of milk in the mouth will directly result in dental caries.

The gum pads of the child should be wiped after breastfeeding. No doing so will cause dental caries.

Maintaining the right posture while feeding has many benefits including equal distribution of muscle force, facial harmony and much more.

Swallowing

A person swallows around 2000 times per day this requires perfect tongue positioning. Most often, children get it wrong; leading to using the wrong muscle group for swallowing. This directly affects the growth of the facial muscles.

Does your child show any of these 11 signs ?

Sleeping with open mouth: it’s not just a clumsy habit that he has picked up over the years. It can cause from sleep apnea to a variety of other reasons, keep an eye out for that.

Enuresis (Bedwetting in older kids): Please don’t be embarrassed to talk about it, sometimes it's just not that normal. If your child tends to show this sign, make sure it's not taken lightly.

White spots on teeth in infants and toddlers: please don’t try to scrub it off, let's just give him proper guidance.

Disturbed sleep: Have you ever thought why your child can’t keep his steady sleep ? it roots from a variety of reasons that definitely needs the attention of a medical practitioner.

Snoring: don’t be that parent who stands there and awes at him. That cute sound can cause from asthma to even  major allergies. Its a 'SIGN' !

‘Faulty’ Habits: Your child might develop a variety of habits while growing up; improper swallow, nail biting, thumb sucking, and a lot more. Make it a mandatory to let them know that ‘Nose is to breath and mouth is to eat’, along with going for a perfect medical guidance.

Bad breath: Sometimes don’t just resort to home remedies for bad breath, it’s a problem that can have unanticipated impacts when he grows up.

Delayed speech: Don’t just wait for it forever, if it takes time, just walk to the doctor to be on the safer side, again, it’s ‘not’ just speech related.

Over anxiety: it’s not just the genes, sometimes, it might even be related to mouth breathing or sleeping disorders, have a chat with your paediatrician.

If your child is hyperactive: The children needs more care and attention than anyone else, we have a team specialised and dedicated for that.

Pouching food: Most kids have a habit to hold food in their cheeks or tuck it behind or in front of their gums, as you guessed it’s ‘NOT’ a healthy sign, let's just look for it the next time.