What is the cause of the hangnails on the child's hands?

Many parents let their children play with sand when they are young, because playing with sand can improve children's intelligence. However, some children will grow barbs on their hands while playing with sand. The children will feel pain on the barbs and will pull them out with their hands, which results in more and more pain. In fact, the barbs on children's hands also reflect one thing, that is, the children will lack vitamins during their growth. So what are the children lacking when they have barbs on their hands?

1Dry skin

Hangnails on children's hands are mostly caused by dry skin and cracks in the stratum corneum. Due to improper care by parents, the skin on children's hands becomes dry, and the skin under the nails is not moisturized by oil, making it easy for hangnails to grow. Be careful to use less alkaline soap, laundry detergent, etc. to wash your hands.

2. Physical friction stimulation

Children are playful and active, and often grab toys with their hands, bite their nails, or rub their hands against other objects too much, which may remove the sebum on the skin surface and make the skin's stratum corneum lose protection. In this way, excessive evaporation of water will naturally lead to dryness and peeling, forming hangnails. Therefore, children should dry their hands in time after playing and washing them, and apply non-irritating hand cream to protect the moist cuticle, so as to get rid of the trouble of hangnails.

3. Hangnails on hands have little to do with vitamin deficiency

Vitamin deficiency can indeed cause a series of skin problems. For example, lack of vitamin A can lead to excessive keratinization of hair follicles, lack of B vitamins can lead to seborrheic dermatitis and chapped lips, and lack of vitamin C can lead to poor wound healing and easy cracking.

But in modern society, the vast majority of people will not develop vitamin deficiency diseases as long as they eat normally. Moreover, if there is a vitamin deficiency, not only skin problems will occur, but other symptoms will also occur. For example, a lack of vitamin A will cause eye and vision abnormalities, a lack of B vitamins will cause nervous system abnormalities, and a lack of vitamin C will cause scurvy.

If a child only has hangnails around the nail, most of the time it is just a local skin abnormality, not a reflection of systemic disease, and is not caused by vitamin deficiency.

4 Tips for Dealing with Hangnails

1. Do not peel off or bite off the barbs, as this may cause skin tears and infection.

2. Use sharp and clean nail clippers to neatly cut off the hangnails.

3. Apply hand cream evenly immediately after washing your hands.

4. After cutting off the hangnails, you can soak them in olive oil and apply hand cream. Or soak in warm water with fruit juice (such as lemon, apple, grapefruit) for 10 to 15 minutes to nourish the skin.