What is the reason why children’s skin becomes darker and darker?

Everyone’s impression of children is that they are usually fair and chubby, right? But sometimes, children’s skin becomes darker and darker for unknown reasons. And sometimes, the children who become darker and darker do not go out to bask in the sun all the time. Why is this? Next, let me introduce to you some reasons why children’s skin becomes darker and darker. You can try to pay attention to this knowledge in your life.

In addition to physiological aging, skin darkening is also related to many factors. If we understand these factors and take precautions, we can improve the situation to a certain extent.

Diseases Many diseases can change the normal skin color and make it darker. The most common ones include endocrine system diseases, chronic wasting diseases, malnutrition diseases, etc.

For example, Addison's disease caused by adrenal cortex hypofunction can turn the skin brown or even dark brown, distributed in exposed parts such as the face, back of the hands, and joints, and is particularly obvious in wrinkles or areas of pressure and friction. For example, chronic liver disease can cause chloasma on the face or darkening of the area around the eye sockets. In addition, melanin in patients with melanosis is mostly accumulated on the face, especially on the forehead, cheeks, behind the ears and neck, which is unsightly.

In addition, skin melanosis may also occur in patients with acromegaly, hyperthyroidism, hemochromatosis, chronic infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, kala-azar, dermatomyositis, renal failure, cancer and other diseases.

There is another type of skin disease, especially skin diseases caused by certain allergic foods, such as raw onions, raw garlic, peppers, peppers, leeks, wine, fish, shrimp, kelp, chicken, duck, pig's trotters, pig's head and other foods, commonly known as "irritants", can also induce skin allergies, resulting in rashes and finally leaving pigments to make the skin darker.

Many drugs can change normal skin color. Among them, drugs for treating malaria are the most harmful. Generally, after three or four months of use, the skin pigmentation of 25% of patients can become darker. For example, atapixaban can cause the skin to turn orange; chloroquine has a strong affinity for melanin and can aggravate the darkening of the skin; about 10% of patients taking quinine develop blue pigment spots on their faces. Among sedatives, chlorpromazine poses the greatest threat to skin color. Long-term use (such as in mental patients) may cause butterfly spots to appear on the face and neck, and brown-gray, light blue or light purple on the arms.

Food Certain foods are also the root cause of darkening of the skin. Foods rich in metal elements such as copper, iron, and zinc have this disadvantage.

After reading the above questions about why children’s skin becomes darker and darker, have you learned a lot of knowledge in this regard? We should pay attention to this aspect for our children in our daily lives. After all, children themselves will not care too much about these issues. But we adults still need to learn more about it.