bloody gums

KYmama9286 · February 2011

So DS has been working on cutting his top 4 teeth all at once (poor guy Sad ) The top left middle tooth came through as did the tooth next to that but his other front tooth just has an opening in the gum where it looks like a tooth broke through but there is no tooth to be seen.

I've tried feeling if there was a tooth under the gums but I cant feel or see anything. Last night when he was eating a cookie I noticed he was bleeding...and quite a bit (IMO). Enough that his fingers were bloody from putting the cookie in his mouth, his lips were covered in blood like he had red lipstick on and I could see that the blood was actively flowing from the opening in the gum where the tooth has yet to come through. He didnt seem to be in pain so I chocked it up to the cookie just irritated the gum tissue but then today he was bloody again when I went to get him out of his carseat after our dr's appointment. He hadnt been eating anything this time.

I know some bleeding/irritation is normal w/ teething but I never imagined it would be this amount of blood. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this something I should be more concerned about?

Miller238 · February 2011

Hmm, I would be concerned about that. I have never heard of that much bleeding (or really any bleeding with teething). I would put a call into the pedi nurse line and see if they think you should contact a dentist.

Jessica&Brett · February 2011

I would call the pedi just to check in. Poor guy!

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