Toothpaste
Before everybody panics: Annette brushes her teeth with a toothpaste you can swallow (no fluoride).
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Oh I hope they have a safe toothpaste… Most are not safe to swallow.
This one is a child’s fluoride-free toothpaste, so it is safe. We’re not letting her near fluoride toothpastes as long as she keeps doing this (she also refuses to spit it out).
Is it the flavor? like is it one of the kiddie ones that taste like sweets?
Yeah! I think it’s gross but what can you do.
On Sundays if I was good my mother let me lick one toothbrushful of toothpaste. Not a sneaky way of getting me to clean my teeth, either – I was the one who begged.
Ahhh, I did this with Slimer toothpaste, way back when. Good times.
My toothpaste is not fluoride-free, and I still catch my son slurping it off the brush. We have well-water so we also had to give him a fluoride supplement :)
It would give them tummy-ache WAY before they ingested a poisonous amount. A lethal dose of over the counter fluoride toothpaste is unheard of.
ALSO: My kid is literally also in this phase, so if I make a similar comic about it, its not stealing! ;_;
No worries!
Too much fluoride can cause health problems long before it gets lethal. The most common is that it permanently stains adult teeth that are growing in the jaw – which is a process that happens right from birth until they are fully erupted.
Other problems are brittle bones, thyroid suppression, and kidney damage.
I haven’t been able to find out what dose of fluoride toothpaste can cause this sort of issue, but I hope you need a lot of it to get ill!
My kid has similar toothpaste, and some days he’ll just suck on his toothbrush instead of brushing. lol. but yeah, not trusting them with normal toothpaste till I know he won’t swallow it.
At least they don’t eat chapstick. Not that anyone ever would. Especially not me as a kid… >__> <__<