Children’s nails rough especially not smooth may be physiological factors, malnutrition, trauma, fungal infection and other reasons.
1. Physiological factors: children who often chew nails, resulting in nail plate injury, will appear nail cover surface rough and not smooth symptoms.
2. Malnutrition: If the child has serious picky eating, it may lead to the body lack of some trace elements, malnutrition, resulting in rough and not smooth nails.
3. Trauma: If the child’s nail area is squeezed, collision and other traumatic injuries, it may cause damage to the nail bed, nail root, resulting in new growth of nails appear rough and not smooth.
4. Fungal infection: If the child’s nails are infected by fungus, resulting in thickened and uneven nails, they may appear rough and particularly unsmooth, accompanied by itching and discomfort.
Parents in the exclusion of physiological causes, should take the child to the regular hospital for consultation and targeted treatment.