Reasons for fingernail shedding in children

You should take special care of your children at home, because they don’t understand anything. They don’t know what to do and what not to do. If they accidentally touch something unhygienic, their fingernails may fall off due to fungal infection and need treatment. So what exactly causes children’s fingernails to fall off?

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A person must have good nutrition for nails to grow normally. If a person is malnourished or suffers from anorexia nervosa, nails will grow slowly and some horizontal grooves called Beau's lines will appear. This is not just a lack of something. Judging from the length, your child may have been ill a short time ago, which affected the intake of nutrition. Now that the groove has passed, it means that the body has gradually recovered. So there is nothing missing.

After all, children are children, and they need extra care and careful feeding from their families. As children grow up, they can consciously increase their nutrition and outdoor activities. Winter is a good time to prevent colds and strengthen the body.

"It may be too much selenium or lead. If nails fall off, it cannot be explained by the lack of trace elements alone. You can go to the dermatology department for a check-up to see if there are fungal infections. Is the test blood or hair? What is the normal reference value? Nails grow slowly, and it usually takes about 3 months to half a year to grow well. Infection in about half a year. If there is no inflammation, disinfect with iodine every day. Broken nails can be cut off after half a month. Nails are easy to split, break, become thin, and become brittle, which are all reflections of malnutrition of nails, and this is likely to be a manifestation of vitamin A deficiency or systemic malnutrition in the human body. People in 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 foods such as lamb liver, radish, fish, and fruit. Some people's problem is not partiality, but digestive dysfunction. Even if they eat foods rich in vitamin A, they have poor absorption. Such people should consider specialist treatment.

The above introduces the reasons why children's fingernails fall off. Many parents may think that their children's fingernails fall off due to calcium deficiency, so they give their children a lot of calcium supplements. In fact, the most important cause of fingernails falling off is fungal infection.