Baby pillow

Introduction The occipital part of a small baby, that is, the place where the head is in contact with the pillow, the phenomenon that a circle of hair is scarce or without hair is called a baby pillow. After frequent rubbing, the occipital hair will be worn away and the pillow will become bald. In addition, if the pillow is too hard, it will also cause pillow baldness.

Cause

Objective reasons:

The reason is that the baby is lying in bed most of the time, the place where the head is in contact with the pillow is prone to heat and sweat, making the skin of the head itchy, and because the newborn can't grasp it by hand, it can't express his own itching with words. Therefore, the baby usually shakes the movement of the head from side to side to "treat" the problem that his back cerebral palsy is itchy due to sweating. After frequent rubbing, the occipital hair will be worn away and the pillow will become bald. In addition, if the pillow is too hard, it will also cause pillow baldness.

Physiological reasons:

The cause of occipital baldness is multi-faceted. It may be that the mother has insufficient nutrient intake during pregnancy, or it may be a premise that the pillow is too hard or even calcium deficiency or rickets, but most of the occipital bald is often due to physiological sweating and head. The part is often formed by friction with the pillow.

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Blood test:

Blood routine is the most common and basic blood test. Blood consists of two major parts, fluid and tangible cells, which are routinely tested for blood. Blood has three different functions of cells - red blood cells (commonly known as red blood cells), white blood cells (commonly known as white blood cells), and platelets. The disease is judged by observing the quantitative change and the morphological distribution. It is one of the commonly used auxiliary examination methods for doctors to diagnose the disease.

Differential diagnosis

Symptoms of baby pillow bald confusing:

Permanent alopecia: Cicatricial alopecia is a localized alopecia that occurs suddenly in any long-haired part of the body. It refers to the destruction of hair follicles caused by various causes to form scars, resulting in permanent alopecia. The disease is called "Ghosts" and "oily winds".

Alopecia areata: a sudden onset of patchy alopecia hair lesions with normal scalp lesions, no inflammation and symptoms. The course of the disease can be relieved and relapsed slowly after a slow course. If the entire scalp hair falls off, it is called alopecia totalis; if all the hair in the body is off, it is called alopecia.

General baldness: The beginning of hair loss is one or several round or elliptical hair loss areas with clear boundaries, which are about 1 to 2 cm larger. There are often loose and easy-to-remove hairs at the edges of the hair loss area, some of which have been broken, and the hair at the proximal end tends to shrink. If the hair is pulled out, it can be seen that the hair is thick and thin like an exclamation mark (!), and the lower hair pigment is also lost. As hair loss continues to increase, each piece expands and merges to form an irregular shape. If you continue to progress, you can be completely bald. In severe cases, eyebrows, eyelashes, manes, pubic hair, and body pubes also fall off to form a baldness.

Total baldness: common knowledge of total baldness: about 5% to 10% of cases of alopecia areata can develop gradually or rapidly. In a few days or months, all hair falls off and becomes completely bald. Even more can be involved in eyebrows, beards, manes, pubic hair, etc., very few serious cases of body hair can also be stripped, this is called alopecia.

Symptoms: The occipital part of a baby, where the head is in contact with the pillow, has a thin circle of hair or no hair.

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