Why does my baby have less hair on the top of his head?

If some babies have physical problems, they need to pay attention to timely treatment. The baby's body is very fragile. Therefore, once the baby suffers from certain diseases, it is necessary to pay attention to timely medical treatment to ensure the safety and health of the baby's body. Especially some babies have the problem of thinning hair on the top of their heads. So why do babies have less hair on the top of their heads?

Analysis of the causes of baby's thinning hair

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.

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.

If the baby has thinning hair, then the baby needs to take appropriate measures to treat it in time. This is because the baby suffers from the above-mentioned diseases. Therefore, the baby's problem should be taken seriously, so as to ensure the baby's physical health and safety and avoid the deterioration of the disease and put the baby in danger.