What material is good for pacifier

For babies, pacifiers can divert their attention and also have a certain soothing effect, so many parents use pacifiers on their children. Generally, pacifiers are made of three materials: banana, silicone, and latex. These three materials have their own advantages and disadvantages. It depends on how parents choose.

What material is the best for pacifiers?

There are three types of pacifiers: rubber, silicone, and latex. The choice of material depends on the parents' judgment.

Rubber pacifier

Advantages: soft and elastic, similar to the mother's nipple.

Disadvantages: slightly rubbery and easy to deform.

Heat resistance: 105 degrees

Silicone pacifier

Advantages: No rubber smell, very close to the mother's nipple, and the most elastic pacifier, with a soft and delicate taste and moderate hardness.

Disadvantages: Easy to be bitten.

Latex pacifier

Advantages: Latex is a pure natural and environmentally friendly material with a light yellow appearance. It has good elasticity and ductility, a relatively soft texture, and feels very similar to a mother's nipple.

Disadvantages: It has poor heat resistance and is prone to aging. Generally, the pacifier needs to be replaced every month or so.

Advantages of using a pacifier

Psychological experts believe that from the time a baby is born to around 2 years old, he or she enters the oral stage. Sucking through the mouth can help the baby transfer tension and enhance a sense of security. In addition to using nutritional sucking to help growth and development, the sucking action can also promote the sense of touch near the lips and tongue, thereby obtaining a satisfied and happy feeling.

A pacifier will encourage the baby to develop the habit of breathing through the nose. Breathing through the nose can prevent external viruses and pathogens from invading the body, but mouth breathing cannot do this. At this time, you need something to make your child "shut up", and a pacifier is a good choice. Some European and American experts have found that when a child uses a pacifier, he can develop a habit of keeping his mouth closed, which naturally prompts him to learn to breathe through his nose.

Non-nutritive sucking is a way for babies to relieve their emotions. If there is no pacifier, many babies will achieve this goal by sucking their fingers. They can easily get sick due to dirty fingers, or cause the skin on their fingers to peel. If the child still has this habit when he is a little older, it may affect the development of his gums.

In the latest research, a comparative survey of 500 American families with young babies found that pacifiers can reduce the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome by 60%. This is because a pacifier will allow the baby to sleep in a supine or side-lying position, and will not increase the risk of sudden death due to prone sleeping; at the same time, a pacifier will help the baby get used to breathing through the nose, which can prevent bacteria and dust from entering the mouth, and effectively prevent "disease from the mouth."

Experts believe that babies under 2 years old do not need to give up the habit of sucking pacifiers, because it can be used to train the baby's sucking and swallowing abilities, especially for low-weight premature babies. It can help improve their oral and gastrointestinal functions while achieving the function of self-soothing.