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Home » Babies » Baby Food » How to Feed a Child with a Mouth Injury

How to Feed a Child with a Mouth Injury

02/01/2013 by The Mama Maven

My two year old fell the other day and hurt his lip and 3 teeth. It was pretty awful and besides taking care of his injuries, I also had to make sure my child ate. So my little picky eater has had an even tougher time. His bottom lip has stitches and his top teeth has trauma (one went up into his mouth). So, I’ve had to get creative. He wouldn’t use a straw to drink so I was used a 1 teaspoon (5ML) medicine syringe. As you can imagine, giving him a bottle of Pediasure took a long time. I was afraid he’d get dehydrated, so I was also making sure he drank water that way. I was also able to feed him smooth oatmeal (which I either put in the Vitamix or used the pureed pouch kind). He also ate yogurt (Chobani’s Honey Nana flavor) that way. What are some of the things I did to help him? Read on. How to Feed a Child with a Mouth Injury

How to Feed a Child with a Mouth Injury | The Mama Maven Blog

How to  feed a child with a mouth injury

Recently my child fell and injured his mouth and teeth — see  this post. This post is about how we fed him afterwards. If you are looking to give nutrition to your child after a lip/mouth/teeth injury, here are some ideas. Please note I am not a doctor or nutritionist, just a mom with a kid that wouldn’t eat after an injury. Cold to room temperature liquids are best — nothing hot as it may aggravate their lips and teeth. 

Ideas on How to Get Nutrition Into Your Child

  1. Use a medicine syringe (10 ML at least) to give your child liquids or heavily pureed foods if they cannot use a straw). You can either purchase this or ask the pharmacist if they can give you one. 

Use A Larger Medicine Syringe to Feed a Child with a mouth injury | The Mama Maven Blog

2. Pedisure/pediatric nutrition drinks 

3. Pouch Baby Food/Jarred Baby Food

4. Use a good blender. Take some pediasure, yogurt, fruit (frozen or fresh), kale or spinach (for fiber), flax seed, chia seed (to add protein) and blend. Or use milk and a protein shake mix for kids. 

Here are some healthy smoothie ideas: 

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Pink Grapefruit Punch Smoothie

 

Blueberry Banana Avocado Green Smoothie

 

As your child starts to feel better, you can introduce soft foods like bananas, broken up muffins, scrambled eggs, oatmeal with blueberries, yogurt…etc.. It took my son 5 days to even let me feed him yogurt and one more day to drink from a straw. 

Did this ever happen to your child? What did you feed them?

 

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Filed Under: Babies, Baby Food, Kids, Picky Eaters, Toddlers Tagged With: fall, liquid diets, not eating, oatmeal purees, Pediasure, pediatric drinks, smoothies, soft foods, toddlers

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  1. Lindsay says

    04/28/2023 at 3:26 PM

    My 11 month old was in her walker, and she was walking and fell over on her face and busted her top gums and hit her top teeth. A lot of blood, but I grabbed her and cleaned her up and tried my best to stop the bleeding and then went to my neighbors house and asked for help. They were wonderful and help me out. Told me what to do. I called the dentist asked them what to do and what to look out for. They were also helpful. It was so scary 😨. So I will try these food methods and hopefully she will eat.

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    • Nancy M Horn says

      05/01/2023 at 9:53 PM

      Oh no! I hope she feels better!

      Reply
  2. Emily wintrip says

    10/11/2021 at 2:26 PM

    My daughter is 6 she fell smacked mouth on curb two teeth have come out she is drinking little but often and taking painkillers. But she won’t eat anything at all today hope she starts and gets better and starts to eat something. She is very picky at eating to

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    • The Mama Maven says

      10/12/2021 at 10:57 AM

      That is tough, I’m sorry. Hopefully she will start feeling better. I would try to keep her as hydrated as possible and hopefully she will start to feel like herself again soon.

      Reply
  3. Jasmine says

    10/20/2019 at 10:20 PM

    Hi! I literally just experience this with my 3 year old. Same exact thing. He was running playing football in the house and ran into coffee table. Bottom lip split open and top tooth pushed into gums. It was so much blood. We took to emergency care and they strapped him down and stiched him up. I was hurting so bad to see that. But had to hold it together. We are home now and I’m going google crazy. He’s tough. But every 15 min. Or so he whines from the pain. He won’t drink or eat and i will be trying your method tomorrow. But how did you manage him with pain. I will be taking my little one to the dentist in the morning to see what they will do with his tooth. I’m just worried and hope this pain will all go away soon for him.

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    • The Mama Maven says

      10/21/2019 at 11:44 AM

      I’m sorry to hear that he got hurt. It’s so tough watching our babies feel pain. I hope he’s feeling better today. I would speak to your doctor about pain management. We gave children’s ibuprofen and I would set alarms to make sure I give on time (not let it wear off). It will start to get better soon.

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  4. Polly says

    12/27/2016 at 10:47 PM

    A really helpful post! Thanks for sharing, my kids also love the Pediasure drinks, especially the chocolate sidekick shakes!

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  5. types of tramadol says

    08/01/2013 at 9:52 PM

    great post thanks

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  6. Erin Leigh Peck says

    02/01/2013 at 8:32 PM

    Oh, Nancy! You are Super Mom. So sorry for both of you to have to deal with this but glad everyone is OK and that you are such a resourceful Mama!

    Reply
    • The Mama Maven says

      02/01/2013 at 11:06 PM

      Thanks Erin!

      Reply

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