Infants like to scratch their faces for many reasons, such as imperfect development of the nervous system, insecurity, hunger, prickly heat, eczema and other reasons.
1. After birth, many infants do not have the ability to control themselves due to the underdevelopment of the nervous system, which may cause their hands to scratch all the time. And babies are used to holding their hands on the side of their face after birth, so they always feel like scratching their face, which is a normal phenomenon, and will be restored as the baby grows up.
2. Infants are unfamiliar with the outside world and do not feel safe, which can also lead to the hands always scratching, which is also a normal phenomenon.
3. When babies are hungry, they feel hungry, which can cause their hands to scratch all the time, and it is easy for them to scratch their faces.
4. Infants who have prickly heat or eczema on their face and have itchy and uncomfortable faces will also show frequent scratching behavior.
Babies like to scratch their faces is a normal physiological phenomenon in most cases, but if combined with other symptoms, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or therapy.