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Does teething cause diarrhoea? Find out!

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The question of whether teething causes diarrhoea in babies is as probably as old as the practice baby nursing among humans.

Teething refers to the process of tooth eruption. Generally, most babies will start getting their first teeth between four and seven months of age. Many times the first are the bottom two teeth followed by the top. It has been observed that many infants experience teething and diarrhoea at the same time, and that the diarrhoea could be due to teething.

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