Antibiotics and yellow teeth

Jody has been on antibiotics for about 6 weeks (with a break every week or so before the ear infection comes back).
Anyway, her teeth look really terrible! They are really yellow and look like they are going to go rotton, there's nasty dark yellow staining close to her gums that a tooth brush will not take off.
I asked her dr about it and he said the AB's she is on shouldn't stain teeth and if they do, it's only temporary.
Has this happened to anyone else? Will it go away eventually??

never heard of such a thing... being an early childhood teacher with thousands of young children over the years i have never seen such a thing !!

Hope you get some awnsers... im not usually one to advocate but did you ask uncle google ??

Good Luck - hope DD gets some relief soon ((hugs))

She hasn't seen a dentist yet, when I showed the dr he wasn't concerned at all, but I think they look really bad.
They looked great until the she started on the AB's and quickly went yuck.
I am not sure how the dentists work here either, just that they are really expensive! But I will take her to see her CHN (like plunket) and see what she says. The CHN always asks about her teeth so I guess it's part of the care she provides.
Interesting about your daughter having sensitive teeth, Kicker, as Jody had some icecream a while ago and it made her cry and she refuses to have it now.
Thanks everyone, hopefully we can get it sorted.
Hopefully the ear infections go away for good too!

My son was prescribed iron and on that it said it stains teeth and to use baking soda to brush the teeth, stains grey rather than yellow though. Maybe you could ask the pharmacist to see if it's something similar with the antibiotics?

My yellow teeth are caused by constant AB's when I was a kid. I'm 30 now, no amount of whitening gets rid of it.

What ABs was she on?

I also have yellowed teeth from constant ABs as a child - both as baby teeth and adult teeth, but I assume as soon has her baby teeth fall out and she gets her adult teeth she should be fine - assuming she doesnt continue needing ABs.
Im worried my older girl will end up with yellowing of her teeth as she has the same kidney condition I have

I've had amoxicylin constantly since childhood and have very yellow teeth...

Chickoin wrote: MissAngel , did you have the AB's with you baby teeth or were you still having them when your adult teeth came through? I am hoping that her adult ones will be fine.

I had them (and I just checked in my plunket book) from 3 months old - well past when the book stopped. Mum said I would have been at least 10. I was a very sick child. My poor mum!

Amber, start using adult toothpaste on her teeth. The children's ones don't have enough fluoride to harden the enamel.

Alia has hyperplastic dental enamel as well, we are unsure of the cause, could have been in utero or it could be ab's but she didn't have many.

She's had her 2yo molars coated & some of her new adult teeth coated. Not sure how old Jodi as your tickers aren't working, but if she's got those molars, go get them coated to help them as those teeth are for life.

Thanks AandCsmum, I have always used only a teeny amount of child's toothpaste for her, I will use adult stuff now. Jody is 2 in Nov and she hasn't got those molars yet. I didn't realise they are permanent ones, good to know!

4thtymlucky, Jody's teeth went yellow pretty quickly so hopefully if your DS's teeth look ok so far then it won't affect him in the same way, it may be just a few people that get it.

OMG, it is so hard to find out about anything medical over here no one seems to know how the system works! Soooo looking forward to coming home to nz where it's all straight forward