White spots on children’s fingernails are usually caused by trauma, lack of trace elements and damaged nail matrix.
1. trauma: may be due to the child’s fingernail by blow, squeeze, collision and other reasons so that the fingernail nail bed fracture, damage and other phenomena, thus causing the white spots.
2. Lack of micronutrients: it may be caused by the child’s partiality, excessive loss of micronutrients, etc., which can cause malnutrition of the nail plate and thinning and brittleness of the nails, resulting in white spots on the top of the fingernails.
3. damaged nail matrix: the nail root of the nail matrix cell function is affected, the synthesis of nail plate protein will be abnormal, thus appearing white spots.
Children’s fingernails with white spots may also be caused by other reasons, it is recommended that parents take their children to the hospital in a timely manner, in accordance with the doctor’s instructions for treatment, to avoid delaying the condition.