Children’s nails fall off from the root commonly due to trauma, malnutrition, onychomycosis and other diseases, need to clarify the cause of the disease, give reasonable medication, physical therapy and other treatments to improve the symptoms.
1. Trauma:When the nail is hit by external force or severely squeezed, it is easy to separate the nail from the nail bed and the nail falls off from the root. In this case, you need to disinfect the nail with povidone-iodine to prevent infection, go to the hospital for bandaging, and then wait for the nail to grow back on its own.
2. malnutrition: children in the process of growth and development, the need for more nutrition, if there is usually partiality, picky eating and other bad habits, resulting in a lack of calcium, zinc and other trace elements, which can lead to nail loss, then you need to actively supplement the trace elements can be, usually pay attention to diligent sun exposure.
3. Nail fungus: If the infection of fungus, triggered by nail fungus, the nails may also fall off by themselves, the treatment, can be used externally antifungal drugs, such as terbinafine cream, ketoconazole ointment, etc.; external drug treatment effect is not good, oral antifungal treatment, such as itraconazole, terbinafine and so on.
It is recommended that patients after the current cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor active treatment, medication, strictly comply with the doctor’s prescription medication, not blindly self-medication.