What is the cause of coffee spots on babies’ faces?

Generally speaking, the skin quality of a newborn baby is relatively high and feels very soft. However, some babies are born with poor skin quality or even suffer from congenital diseases. Take café au lait spots, for example. They can also appear on babies' faces. So the question is, what is the cause of coffee spots on babies' faces? What should parents pay attention to?

What to do if your baby has coffee spots on his face

When a baby develops coffee-topped spots on his face, don't be too anxious. Coffee-topped spots should be treated early, but not too early. Generally, coffee-topped spots can be found a few months after the baby is born. Many mothers start to find ways to treat them, but they don't know that the baby is too young to have independent consciousness, and the skin tissue reasons make it unsuitable for treatment. Therefore, it is best to go to a regular hospital for treatment after the child is one year old. And you should choose an experienced physician to avoid causing unnecessary harm to the baby.

Can baby café au lait spots be treated by the fan method?

How long does it take to heal? Café au lait spots can be removed with laser, and the best option for baby café au lait spots is melanin reduction technology, which has 4 types of treatment light and 3 types of repair light, and intelligent digital regulation technology, which can precisely control the spectrum and only work on the melanin deposition areas of café au lait spots, ensuring the safety of the treatment of baby café au lait spots. Generally, it takes 2-5 treatments (depending on the area and depth of the coffee stains) to completely remove baby coffee stains. Each treatment takes about 30 minutes, and the interval between each treatment is 28-35 days.

Will baby café au lait spots recur after treatment?

Café au lait spots are a manifestation of abnormal accumulation of melanin in the skin and can usually be removed after a few treatments. The doctor will conduct examinations to determine whether the disease has recurred and give appropriate measures. The possibility of recurrence of coffee spots is relatively small. Even if the examination shows the possibility of recurrence, the use of Chinese herbal medicine to nourish and remove spots can achieve the effect of preventing recurrence.

What is the cause of café au lait spots?

Café au lait spots, also known as cafe au lait spots, are patches on the surface of human skin that are a mixture of coffee and milk in color. Café au lait spots are a type of hyperpigmented skin disease caused by abnormal secretion of melanin by melanocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis. They are commonly referred to as birthmarks by the general public.

Since café au lait spots urgently need treatment, how can they be completely eliminated? Experts say that in recent decades, treatment methods such as freezing, grinding, and surgery have appeared in the field of birthmarks, but the results have not been ideal.

Cryotherapy uses liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees Celsius and applies it to the surface of coffee spots, causing the skin to freeze and necrotize, allowing new skin to grow; grinding also uses destructive means to remove the epidermis; surgical skin grafting is a "patch" type of treatment method. All three techniques will leave scars without exception, and sometimes the scars are uglier than coffee spots, and the treatment effect is completely unattainable!

Traditional treatments for pigmented skin diseases such as café au lait spots can easily damage the dermis. Once the dermis is damaged, it will automatically produce repairing fibers to form scars. Therefore, after the 1990s, laser therapy became the mainstream technology.

Because laser therapy is highly safe and can selectively remove melanin in the epidermis without damaging normal skin tissue, the scarring rate is extremely low. However, laser also has its limitations. The technology has weak penetration and can only remove melanin in the stratum corneum of the skin, but cannot act on the melanocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis. This results in a low success rate for laser treatment of coffee spots, which either cannot be cured or are prone to recurrence.