Why do children lose their hair?

It is not common for children to lose hair. If a child loses hair, parents should pay attention. It is mainly divided into physiological hair loss and pathological hair loss. If the child is frightened or has psychological problems, it may cause hair loss. Another important reason is that the child lacks calcium. Calcium deficiency is an important cause of hair loss in children. At this time, calcium supplementation should be carried out in time.

Why do children lose their hair?

1. Physiological hair loss

It is normal for babies to lose their lanugo in the first few weeks after birth and for it to recover after a few months. Babies can also experience hair loss due to constant friction on their heads. When a baby is sleeping, the pressure generated by the weight of the head alone can cause a large area of ​​hair loss on the baby's back of the head. This is because the roots of a newborn's hair are not yet firmly attached to the skin, so even if the friction is not frequent, it can cause the hair to loosen and fall off.

2. Pathological hair loss

Rickets (calcium deficiency) is the most common disease. In addition to hair loss, rickets is often accompanied by other symptoms, such as crying, waking up easily during sleep, sweating, etc. Because the pillow is irritated by sweat, babies often shake their heads and rub against the pillow when they sleep, resulting in sparse hair and hair loss on the pillow, forming typical occipital annular hair loss, which is medically known as "occipital baldness" and is an early manifestation of rickets in infants.

If your baby's hair loss is physiological, you don't need to worry too much. However, babies grow and develop very quickly after birth, and are prone to calcium deficiency. To prevent this, you should give them cod liver oil drops from 15 days after birth, and start taking calcium supplements at 4 months, and continue until about 2 years old.

This article introduces why children lose hair when washing their hair. Through the introduction, we can know that children lose hair when washing their hair may have physiological reasons or pathological reasons. If it is a physiological reason, you don't need to be too nervous, but if it is caused by pathological reasons, you need to be vigilant and take active measures to deal with it.