What should I do if my baby's hair is a little yellow?

Hair problems can reflect whether our entire body is functioning normally. Now many babies have yellow hair problems. This phenomenon may reflect a problem in some aspect of our child’s body and we need to treat it as soon as possible. Maybe everyone does not have a comprehensive understanding of the treatment methods for baby’s yellow hair. Let us learn about the treatment methods for baby’s yellow hair.

There are many reasons for yellow hair, including different races, genetics, the content of trace elements such as iron, lead, zinc, cobalt, copper, platinum, nickel in the hair, the amount of melanin in hair cells, and diseases (phenylketonuria, kidney disease). Therefore, yellowing of hair is related to nutrition and disease. Disease has been ruled out. Eating too much sugar and fat in the diet, too much acidic substances will cause the hair to turn yellow, and there is a lack of certain trace elements (iron, copper, zinc, etc.). Copper deficiency can reduce the function of tyrosinase, thus affecting the metabolism of melanin, and iron and zinc deficiency can affect the development and growth of hair cells, causing hair to turn yellow. It is recommended to go to the hospital for testing and treatment. Paying attention to adding complementary foods at 6 months old will also make your child's hair healthier. In addition, I heard that Johnson & Johnson's shampoo is acidic and will affect the baby's hair, so I changed the baby's shampoo to Beiqing's. You might as well try it. First of all, everyone knows that the medulla and cortex cells of normal hair contain melanin particles, which determine the color of the hair.

The keratin cells in the hair obtain nutrition from the hair papilla. Any factors that affect the nutrition supply of the hair papilla will affect the growth of melanin, and thus affect the hair color. In addition, the level of human nutrition affects the division of hair matrix cells. Therefore, the speed of hair matrix cell division directly affects the density, growth rate and quality of hair. People with low nutrition levels or even severe malnutrition will suffer from hair withering or even hair loss over time. From this we can see that thin and yellow hair in young children is not a disease. The quality of the hair has a lot to do with the baby's nutritional level. If you want your baby to have thick, black hair, you must first ensure that the child has enough nutrition and add some foods rich in iron, zinc and calcium to the diet, such as milk and dairy products, beans, vegetables, and dried shrimps, which are high in calcium. Liver, meat, fish, rapeseed, amaranth, spinach, leek, etc. contain high levels of iron. In addition, the use of iron tableware can help supplement iron. If you have a picky eating habit, you should try to correct it. It is also worth mentioning that some parents shave their children's hair when they are infants in order to make their baby's hair grow thicker. This practice is extremely harmful because shaving a baby's head can easily cause trauma. When a baby's scalp is injured, due to its low resistance to disease, bacteria can easily invade the scalp, causing scalp inflammation or folliculitis, thus affecting hair growth. The color of babies' hair varies from person to person. Hair color at birth has nothing to do with future hair color. Hair and teething are related to genetics and nutrition. If your child has a normal diet, normal growth and development, is active and intelligent, you don't need to worry too much. When the child is older, he can eat some black sesame seeds, black beans, walnuts, etc., which may help the hair. The amount and color of a child's hair are mainly affected by genetic factors and cannot be changed by shaving. When shaving a baby's head, it is common to accidentally cut the skin and cause infection. It is recommended that you take your child to check the trace elements to rule out the yellowing of hair caused by trace element deficiency.

The above content introduces us to the treatment method for baby's yellow hair. For this phenomenon, we need to conduct chemical tests on the hair to find out the root cause of our baby's disease, and then treat the root cause thoroughly. This can more effectively help us cure the baby's yellow hair problem and help our children recover their health faster.

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