What causes children's toenails to fall off?

Parents are very concerned about their baby's health, but some children may experience toenails falling off. Especially for many new mothers, they are not so familiar with this kind of phenomenon, so they will be very worried. Generally, there are many causes of this type of disease, and some children are born with it. Let’s take a look at the reasons why children’s toenails fall off.

Congenital nail plate dystrophy is due to autosomal dominant inheritance causing congenital ectodermal dysplasia, or epidermolysis bullosa, or nail patella syndrome, or clubbing leading to nail hypoplasia, developmental defects, congenital malformations, or systemic diseases secondary to dominant inheritance.

There are many reasons for acquired nail malnutrition leading to poor nail growth. It can be directly caused by nutritional deficiencies, including vitamin deficiency, iron deficiency anemia, etc.; it can be caused by various acute infectious diseases or other acute diseases that trigger malnutrition of the body; it can also be caused by chronic wasting diseases, especially liver disease, blood circulation disorders, and poor lung function that cause nail malnutrition; periungual skin diseases and trauma can also often lead to nail malnutrition.

The health of nails reflects the overall condition of the whole body. Nails are prone to splitting, breaking, thinning, and becoming brittle. In addition to being related to some diseases, it is likely that the human body lacks vitamin A or has systemic malnutrition. People with this situation should examine their eating habits, such as whether they are partial to food and do not like to eat foods with high vitamin A content such as radish and fish. In order to supplement the vitamin A needed by the human body, you should eat more lamb liver, radish, fish, fruits and other foods. Some people's problem is not partiality, but digestion and absorption dysfunction. Such people should consider further treatment.

There are many dangers of toenails falling off in children. Generally, this phenomenon will also occur in children with severe malnutrition, so patients must pay more attention to it. For children with more serious conditions, parents should take them to the hospital for examination, which will be relatively safer.