What happens when a child has a thorn on his hand?

It is common for adults who often work with their hands to find corns on their fingers, because frequent friction or dry skin can cause corns to grow. Relatively speaking, children with delicate skin, especially infants and kindergarteners, may also have flesh prickles on their fingers. This is very likely due to a lack of certain vitamins or trace elements. Parents should discover and find out the reasons in time.

The "grass thorns" that grow on baby's fingers refer to "hangnails", which are medically known as reverse excoriations. Hangnails are superficial skin injuries and are not a big deal. It will only cause discomfort in the baby's hands. As long as you pay attention to hand care in daily life, the hangnails can be alleviated. However, if you tear it off with your hands, the barbed area is likely to cause secondary bacterial infection, and in severe cases may lead to paronychia.

The reason why baby's fingers grow thorns

Some parents are confused. The skin on the baby's hands is relatively delicate, so why do hangnails suddenly appear? There are three main reasons:

1. Dry skin

If the mother does not take good care of the baby in normal times, the skin will easily crack when it becomes dry, especially in winter, and the baby's fingers are likely to develop hangnails.

2. Active

The little ones are always lively and active, never idle for a moment, and often use their little hands to grab toys or other things, which causes excessive friction, causing hangnails to grow on the skin of their delicate little hands.

3. Lack of nutrition

If the baby's daily diet lacks vitamin C or other trace elements, it will manifest itself on the skin surface, and hangnails are one of the ways.

How to care for thorns on baby's fingers

1. Nail care: Keep nails clean on a daily basis and educate your baby that biting nails is something that should not be done.

2. To supplement nutrition, mothers should pay more attention to their baby’s diet. Because generally hangnails appear because there is too little oil on the fingers. Therefore, mothers should let their babies drink more water and eat more fruits. If the hangnails are caused by a lack of vitamins or trace elements, parents are advised to take their children to the hospital for examination.

3. If the hangnails are caused by dry skin, parents should pay attention to maintaining the indoor humidity and take good care measures in normal times. They can soak their hands in warm water and then apply moisturizing skin care products, preferably edible ones, such as olive oil.

4. If the baby has hangnails on his fingers, parents must not pull them out with their bare hands, because if the baby's skin is torn, infection may occur. Therefore, before cutting the hangnails, parents can soak the baby's hands in warm water for a while, and then use pruning shears to help the baby cut off the hangnails after they become soft.