Sweet drinks, including all fruit juices, cordials, soft drinks, sports drinks and flavoured milks, can cause tooth decay.
Tips to reduce sweet drinks
- Only give sweet drinks at meal times.
- Use an extra small cup and fill with lots of ice.
- Dilute juice and cordial with extra water.
- Have a jug of tap water available at meal and play times.
- Take a bottle of tap water when you leave the house to avoid buying drinks later.
How to make water more interesting
- Use fun shaped ice cubes.
- Add a thin slice of lemon to ice cubes before freezing.
Use coloured and spiral straws.
- Decorate the rim of cups with mini ‘cocktail’ umbrellas and slices of fruit.
- Use fun cups such as those you can decorate and colour-in (but never put sweet drinks in the fun cups, save them for water only!)
* Developed by Western Sydney Local Health District. Sponsored by the Centre for Oral Health Strategy NSW