It is said that the nails are a barometer of health, and abnormal nails are likely to be a precursor to disease, and this view also applies to infants and children. Under normal circumstances, a baby’s nails should be pink, with a smooth, shiny surface, slightly curved, tough texture, a slightly lighter nail half-moon color, and no barbs around the nail. We often see a variety of clinical abnormalities in the baby’s nails, so what are the main abnormalities in the baby’s nails and what causes them? The most common abnormal performance of baby nails are the nail plate appearing transverse groove, nail plate easy to peel off the Lo, nail plate appearing white spots, nail plate appearing crestal elevation, nail thinning and brittle, nail plate appearing longitudinal fracture, the cause of the disease is more complex, is briefly described below. 1, cross-grooves on the nail plate of the baby appears cross-grooves, it is likely that recently got a febrile disease such as measles, scarlet fever, pneumonia, etc.. 2, white spots on the nail plate If white spots or flocculent white spots appear on the baby’s nails, it may be anemia, malnutrition or poor absorption of nutrients, or the body has roundworms, gastrointestinal function is not good. In addition, if the nail is squeezed, trauma, so that the nail root nail matrix cells are damaged, can also lead to the nail plate white spots or or flocculent white spots. 3, the nail plate rough, crest-like elevation Most of them are also the performance of nail malnutrition, and the lack of a variety of vitamins and trace elements in the body, resulting in the lack of these nutrients, such as children’s diet is too fine, eating coarse food is not enough, diarrhea, vomiting makes nutrient absorption disorders, often cold and fever, metabolic demand for increased nutrition and insufficient supplementation. 4, nail plate peeling baby’s fingernails from the nail half moon appear peeling, easy to fall off, and gradually involving multiple fingernails, may be related to a viral disease, the most common is hand, foot and mouth disease. 5, the nail next to the barb If the baby nail next to the barb and does not heal for a long time, may be the body lack of vitamin A, C, E or zinc, so parents are advised to supplement a variety of fruits and vegetables, if necessary, drug supplementation. 6. redness and swelling around the nail with pain Redness and swelling around the nail with pain, or even fever, is likely to be bacterial nail infection, elected to use effective antibacterial agents, including internal and external use, if the pus needs to be incised to drain the pus. The most common causes of nail lesions in babies are lack of nutritional elements, bad external stimuli, bad habits of biting fingers, and the accompanying symptoms of certain diseases. The nail disease is relatively difficult to treat, and there is not a specific drug available, so treatment should be symptomatic, or supplementation, or treatment of the primary disease, or local treatment, of course, some nail disease can be self-healing.