What is the reason for baby's fingernails to be layered?

A baby is a lovely little living being, the entire hope of a family, and the fruit of the love between a couple. Therefore, the baby's physical health is what parents are most concerned about. They are afraid that the child will have some problems. We can understand the parents' painstaking efforts. After all, it is not easy to take care of a baby nowadays. The phenomenon of stratification of baby's fingernails worries many parents. Let's take a look at what is going on with stratification of baby's fingernails.

To determine whether a baby's nails are healthy, we need to consider many aspects, such as their surface shape, color, texture, thickness, and relationship with the nail bed.

Abnormal color

White spots appear on the baby's nails, which are superstitiously called "lucky spots" and medically called "punctate white nails". If horizontal white lines or small white spots appear, or even the entire nail turns white, they are called "linear white nails", "partial white nails" and "full white nails" respectively. In fact, "punctate white nails" and "linear white nails" are more common in normal children or are temporary injuries.

Yellow nails are when the entire nail turns yellow, mainly due to eating foods containing carotene. Fungal infections can also cause yellow nails, but are often accompanied by changes in the shape of the nails. There is also a yellow nail syndrome, which is a hereditary disease that runs in families and is often accompanied by edema of the face and limbs.

Others such as green armor and black armor are relatively rare.

If the baby's lunula is abnormal in color, red is usually a sign of heart disease, while light red is a sign of anemia.

Abnormal morphology

If a child's nails have horizontal grooves, it may be due to acute fever (such as measles, pneumonia, scarlet fever, etc.), metabolic abnormalities or skin diseases.

If several rows of shallow vertical grooves appear in the center of the nail plate, it is seen in damaged nail matrix and the skin disease lichen planus.

The nail plate becomes thin and brittle, with vertical protruding ridges, and the nail tip is easily torn and delaminated. This is a manifestation of nail malnutrition, which is also seen in skin diseases such as lichen planus.

The above is an introduction to what causes baby's fingernails to delaminate. It can be seen that once parents find that their baby's fingernails are delaminated, they must not take it lightly. First, they should take the baby to the hospital for examination to see what problem causes the nail delamination. After determining the cause, they can make plans for the next step of treatment. Finally, I hope every baby can grow up healthily.