What should I do if my child has long sweat hair?

In life, most children will have long sweat hair. Generally, this is a normal phenomenon and is not harmful to the child's body. However, in life, if it is not handled properly, it will damage the hair follicle cells. Bacteria may enter the hair follicles through the pores of the original sweat hair, causing folliculitis. It may also cause poor sweating in the summer, reduced skin heat dissipation, and dry skin. If you want your child to have good-looking skin, remember not to treat it yourself, but go to a regular hospital for treatment.

What is the reason for heavy sweat hair in newborns?

Babies are born with varying amounts of hair, which is called "lanugo". Some babies have soft hair only on their heads, while others have coarse hair covering their shoulders and spine. After the fetus is born, there will be a natural layer of protective lanugo on its body. This is a normal physiological phenomenon. It is a layer used to protect the fetus's body after birth. Generally, as the child is born and grows, this layer of lanugo will disappear naturally and will not remain on the child's body for a long time.

However, if your baby is already six months old and the lanugo has not disappeared but has grown darker, you need to have a check-up. Generally, if a child still has a lot of hair after he or she is six months old, it may be due to problems with the child's endocrine system or blockage of the child's hair follicles.

If there is a problem with the child's endocrine system, the nutrition of the fetal hair will continue to be insufficient and cannot be cut off, resulting in the fetal hair not decreasing but increasing in thickness. If the hair follicles are blocked, the hair cannot absorb the necessary nutrients, causing it to not change color or not return to its normal state, resulting in thick hair.

What should I do if my newborn baby has heavy sweat hair?

1. Take your baby out to bask in the sun. Under the stimulation of sunlight, the baby's skin will grow faster and he will feel the breath of life. While promoting blood circulation, the fetal hair will disappear naturally.

2. Give your baby some extra nutrition to speed up his or her development. You can let your child eat some cod liver oil appropriately, which is also very effective in helping to reduce the impact of lanugo on the child's skin surface.

3. Enhancing your own immunity will also effectively help reduce the layer of fetal hair on the surface of the skin.

4. Eat more seasonal vegetables and fruits, and don’t eat too many out-of-season foods. These foods contain a lot of catalysts. If you eat them for a long time, your body hair will grow heavier and heavier.

5. Don’t put makeup on your children. Some cosmetics contain lead, mercury and skin hormones. They may work very well at first and the results are quite quick, but over time, the skin will become dependent on the hormones. Once they are not used, the skin will rebound or even deteriorate, and the hair will grow more and denser.

Of course, if the child's problem of excessive body hair is very serious, he or she should seek medical attention in time. As parents, you must not blindly help your child solve this problem based on some unreliable and unscientific remedies, otherwise it is likely to make the problem worse and even harm the child's health.