Baby had ice-cream. How do I protect against sugar damage?

[Mdavis27]

My father-in-law gave my 3 month old baby ice-cream. I was not asked and was only found out afterwards.
Supposedly it was only a taste on his tongue. I made my feelings known and mother-in-law gave him a bolloking as well. I am so upset by this for many reasons but the main one I'm worried about is how to 'brush his teeth'. Obviously he hasn't got any yet but I know sugar can damage gums.
I don't have a baby toothbrush and as it's bank holiday I can't ask health visitor for advice so I'm reaching out to you. Does anyone have experience with this or know what I can do?

Give the baby a drink of water.

Take a chillpill.

Oh Dear God .

The problem with premature solids and sugar for a young baby isn't really about their gums, it's the impact on things like their immune system and how it can alter their gut biome/microbes

Do you think this is a helpful thing to say to an anxious mother?

I am ok thank you people. The orginal post was the result of a very tired mind. It was late and I was over thinking situation which is why I put the question out there. I'm usually quite happy, not worrying about these kinds of things.
Just to set the record straight, I was asking what to do...not whether I should scrub away with a toothbrush.
Also, regarding the controversial name change...I joined mumsnet less than 24 hours ago and my profile is still being edited. I changed my mind about username, sorry to have upset the veteran users.

Bless you OP. We've all been there. I remember panicking about all sorts of daft things with my first.

The second one had a chocolate button shoved in her mouth by a friendly toddler when she was six weeks old . I'm glad that didn't happen with my first as I expect I would have been straight to A&E!

Yes all very normal. Ignore the meanies. My FIL gave my PFB half a chocolate biscuit at 5 months and I absolutely freaked. I was crying for hours thinking he'd "ruined him". Fourth child's first food was a piece of nutella on toast he swiped off his older sibling's plate from his highchair at about the same age. I remember just thinking, "oh good, baby-led weaning has started".

I bet you can guess which one is now the child with a great appetite, who will try all foods, always clears his plate and has no weird food hangups and which is the picky teen who has a long list of foods they wont eat and will rarely try anything new can't you?

Don't worry, it gets easier, especially when you get more sleep 😀

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First baby OP?
Honestly, you will work yourself up into a right state of you don't take a deep breath.
Everything we eat has a form of sugar in it somewhere. So whether you breastfeed or bottle feed, they will get some form of sugar from somewhere.
Please don't stress it,it's not like they were given a whole bucket of Ben and Jerry's finest.
In my parents day, it was accepted to put whisky on a teething babies gums and we've all survived quite well.
Honestly, a tiny little lick of ice cream won't do anything.

In terms of what to do, the only thing I’d do would be to talk to FIL again about not giving baby any solids at this age.

As long as it’s a one off and FIL’s not going to make a habit of it, I wouldn’t worry.

The baby shouldn't be having solids, but 'sugar damage' is very extreme OP! My ten month old DD still has no teeth, but had some of a gingerbread biscuit earlier! Just say to FIL that baby shouldn't be on solids yet, but I can assure you that sugar damage has not been done!