Teething Signs

Teething revisited.

Teething as a disease entity has been diminished from its 19th century status as the major cause of infant mortality to its modest position today as a "waste basket" diagnosis. If past proves to be prologue, it will diminish further as more credible causes for undifferentiated fevers and other complaints are found. The 21st century may find teething consigned to the shelf along with miasma, hum...

Late Teething in India

cut their teeth at a later age than that given in books. Out of 100 infants of varying ages, from 8 months to 2 years, 30, nearly one-third, had cut no teeth ; and out of 14 infants, S months' old, more than half, 8, had not commenced teething ; out of 27 infants one year old, 7 had not cut any tooth, 7 had cut 4, 6 had cut 6 teeth, and only one had 9. Though the statistics speak comparatively ...

Teething: facts and fiction.

Fever associated with teething.

A relationship between teething and fever was sought by examining mothers' reports of the 20 days before the eruption of the first tooth in 46 healthy infants. Twenty infants had a fever of greater than 37.5 degrees C on day 0 compared with seven infants (or fewer) from day 19 to day 4. The danger of attributing fever to teething is emphasised.

Teething complications, a persisting misconception.

Fifty children were admitted to hospital with symptoms of illness that were attributed, by the parent or general practitioner, to the process of teething in the course of one year. In all but 2 cases an organic cause, other than teething, could be found and the most serious conditions were meningitis in one patient and febrile convulsion in 11.