What are the reasons for the thinning hair of four-month-old babies?

Watching their baby grow up slowly, I believe that parents' eyes are gradually filled with happiness, especially the various changes that continue to occur in the body, which they observe in great detail. However, the four-month-old baby's hair is still relatively sparse, which makes parents worried. After all, the child is young and they are afraid that it will affect his future life. So, what are the reasons why a four-month-old baby has thinning hair? Let’s take a closer look below.

1. Hair growth is affected by genetic factors

The genetic tendency of hair is quite obvious, and there are individual differences. The amount, color, and straightness of hair are related to the genes of the parents. If the parents have good hair, the baby's hair will also be good. If the parents have bad hair, the baby's hair will also be bad.

Some babies are born with less hair, so mothers don’t have to worry that their babies will have too little hair in the future. The growth of a baby's hair is just like the growth of his body, some grow early, some grow late, some grow fast, some grow slow. Most babies' hair will gradually develop as their bodies grow, gradually changing from sparse to dense, and from yellow to black. Most babies who are born with thin hair will have hair that is no different from other babies by the time they are 1-2 years old.

2. Nutritional deficiency leads to poor hair development

There are many reasons why babies have less and yellow hair. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, hair is related to blood and kidneys. Some newborns have thin hair. In addition to genetic factors, it may be due to malnutrition, which means that the mother did not pay enough attention to nutritional intake during pregnancy. Generally speaking, malnutrition of the fetus in the womb, especially lack of vitamin A and vitamin B1, B2, B6, B12 and minerals such as folic acid, calcium, zinc, and iron, can make the hair sparse, fine and soft.

When the baby is about one year old, the hair is still sparse and yellow, which may be related to the lack of trace elements. For example, the lack of trace elements such as zinc, calcium, iron, etc. can cause the baby's hair to be sparse. This has to do with the feeding method. Some babies do not add complementary foods in a timely and appropriate amount, and their diet is too monotonous. Some babies' diet is too fine and irregular, which causes spleen and stomach disharmony, weak gastrointestinal function, and poor appetite, which of course will affect hair growth.

3. Long-term failure to clean hair affects hair growth

Some mothers are terrified every time they wash their baby's hair, fearing that they will wash away the little hair their baby has left and that it will never grow again. In fact, this is completely groundless worry. The hair that falls out when you wash your hair is old hair, and it will fall out even if you don't wash your hair. On the contrary, if you don't wash your hair for a long time, the stimulation of oil and sweat will cause secondary infection, which will affect the growth of new hair. Some mothers believed the rumors and rubbed ginger on their baby's scalp, hoping to increase blood circulation around the hair follicles and promote hair growth. This practice is unhelpful and has no scientific basis. The method of shaving the baby's head more often to achieve more hair growth is even more dangerous, because when the razor shaves the baby's hair, many pores will be damaged in an invisible way to our naked eyes. In addition, if the razor is not clean or the skin on the head is not clean, bacteria will take the opportunity to enter the body, causing local small abscesses or skin suppurative infections, which will make the hair development even less optimistic.

The above is an introduction to the reasons why four-month-old babies have thin hair. I hope it will be helpful to parents. There are many factors that lead to thinning hair in children. It is important to be able to correctly distinguish between normal conditions and those caused by diseases. For example, kyphosis and lack of certain rare elements can cause thinning hair. Effective measures need to be taken in time for treatment. This is the most important issue.