What causes toenail peeling?

What causes toenails to peel? Many people will encounter children and face the same situation. We need to pay attention to the factors that cause it, such as calcium deficiency, onychomycosis, and the nail area is too dry. If we do not pay attention to care, the toenails will peel off. Therefore, only after understanding the reasons can we know how to solve it.

1. Dryness: The child’s nails are currently stratified, which is usually due to being too dry. Pay attention to care and wash hands frequently. Suggestion: Eat more fruits and vegetables, use hand cream on your child, and take some calcium supplements for treatment and then observe.

2. The symptom of peeling toenails in children due to calcium deficiency is probably due to calcium deficiency or nail malnutrition. You can choose to give your child appropriate calcium supplements for treatment. Recommendation: For treatment, you need to pay attention to proper physical exercise in your daily life. You can take calcium lactate granules, combine it with food such as pork rib soup, and get more sun exposure.

3. Onychomycosis: Children's toenails may have onychomycosis. Onychomycosis is a lesion caused by dermatophytes invading the nail plate. It is a mutually contagious fungal skin disease that causes the nails to deform, thicken, fall off, and separate. After being infected with onychomycosis, one person will be infected with the disease and then spread to multiple people, and the nail shell may detach. Recommendation: Most onychomycosis can be cured. The commonly used method is to take itraconazole or terbinafine for local treatment. Use a small sharp knife to scrape off the brittle diseased nails, or thin and thicken the diseased nails, and then apply 10% iodine tincture or 30% glacial acetic acid solution. You can also soak the diseased nail in 10% iodine tincture or a special medicine for tinea pedis. After a few months of treatment, new nails will grow.

4. Causes of onychomycosis: 1. Too long nails. Children with too long nails can easily develop a habit of biting their nails. This bad habit often leads to nail deformity, damages the nail bed, causes bleeding or infection, damages the nail plate, shortens the nail plate, makes the periphery uneven, makes the nail plate surface rough, and loses its original luster. If the nail groove is invaded, it can cause paronychia. The development of paronychia can directly lead to the occurrence of onychomycosis. 2. Not paying attention to personal hygiene. When children's nails grow long, they are easy to harbor dirt and may also split. Children who do not pay attention to personal hygiene are also prone to onychomycosis. 3. Poor resistance. Children have poor physical resistance and live in poor environment, which makes it easy for bacteria to breed and cause onychomycosis in children.