What are the reasons for the red scalp of newborns?

Many newborns have red scalps after birth, which makes many parents particularly worried, fearing that their children have unhealthy diseases. Therefore, many parents want to fully understand the reasons for the red scalp of newborns. The following is a detailed introduction for many parents, so you can understand the cause of this disease as soon as possible.

The child has eczema, which is very easy to relapse when it gets hot. It is recommended to use calamine on the child's local area. You can also use some ointments such as tromethamine to keep the child's head clean! Adults should not eat spicy food to prevent the local condition of the child from worsening!

In addition to the possibility that the red spots on the baby's scalp are caused by allergies, we should also consider the possibility of viral infection leading to roseola infantum.

1. You can try anti-allergic drugs such as chlorpheniramine for treatment. If your child feels itchy, you can grind diphenhydramine tablets into powder and add it to calamine lotion to relieve the itching.

2. The characteristic of roseola infantum is fever (usually high fever). After three or four days, the fever subsides and the rash appears, or the rash appears and the fever subsides. This rash is generally not itchy, but a few children will feel itchy. Children without itching can ignore it. It will naturally disappear after one to two days without leaving any pigmentation spots or desquamation.

3. Roseola infantum is a viral infection, and antibiotics are ineffective in treating the infection. There is no need to abuse antibiotics, just treat the symptoms.

What are the reasons for the red scalp of a newborn? The above content has given a detailed introduction, so for many parents, I believe that through the above introduction, they have already had a specific understanding. When they have a comprehensive understanding, in order to protect the health of their children, they must go to a large hospital, get a diagnosis as soon as possible, and then get the correct treatment as soon as possible to let the child's red scalp recover as soon as possible.