Children's nails fall off from the root

Children often. When playing around, children may accidentally get hit by things on their nails, and the nails may turn purple or even get bruised. Some parents find that their children's nails are falling off from the roots. This may be because the injured nails are no longer valuable and need to grow new nails to protect the fingers. At this time, you should take good care of your nails. Let’s take a look at what happens when children’s nails fall off from the roots?

In children suffering from hand, foot and mouth disease, the virus will invade the child's body and cause changes in the immune system, which will cause the nutrition of the nail plate to be temporarily interrupted. The distal nail matrix cells are in the normal process of maturation and differentiation, so the two will gradually separate, leading to nail loss.

1. Onychomycosis

This is a contagious fungal infection that children usually catch from family members who have onychomycosis. Nail loss caused by this condition occurs one by one and becomes more and more frequent.

2. Lack of nutrients

The lack of certain nutrients in the body can also cause children's nails to fall off, such as calcium deficiency and zinc deficiency. Such children may not only show health problems with their nails, but may also have abnormalities in many aspects such as hair, appetite, and sleep.

Observing your child for other symptoms and doing blood tests can help determine if a nutritional cause is the cause.

3. Nails are in contact with water for too long

Of course, this will only happen in a few individual cases. If the child is in excessive contact with water due to playfulness or other reasons, the nails may become soft and fall off. This situation may also manifest as the child's skin falling off.

When a child's nails fall off, especially when multiple children in a large area have the same symptoms, the first thing parents may worry about is infection. If it is a sequelae of hand, foot and mouth disease, the time of nail loss may be similar because the children initially contracted hand, foot and mouth disease. However, this is caused by personal reasons and is not contagious. Similarly, nutritional deficiency is also a self-limiting problem. However, if the onychomycosis occurs due to infection with onychomycosis in adults, it may be cross-infected between children who play together, so attention should be paid.