Welcoming a new life in your world is always a divine feeling. Small babies are very fragile and always require extra care from your side. Each body part of every newly born baby is very soft and delicate and takes some time to adjust as per the surrounding. You might have found your baby very cute with twinkling eyes, soft skin and bald head. But as your baby grows, there can be possibility that the baldness may continue for longer period of time which mainly results due to various mild infections around the baby. Usually, hair loss is one of the common and normal signs of newly born babies. The complete cycle of hair growth completes in two basic stages. One is growing stage and another is resting stage. Newly born babies and adults both go through the same cycle in their lives. Basically, babies start showing their hair loss problem at very initial stage of their life. Their hair follicles are on the resting stage most of the time. There are various conditions including infection or say nutritional aspects, etc. responsible for hair loss in your newborns life.
The conditions responsible for babies hair loss are as follows:
1. Tinea capitis
This is one of the kinds of fungal infection which mostly noticed in case of newborns. This particular infection is commonly known as ringworm of the scalp. Its appearance look like a black patches of round or oval shape over the babies head. The hair may be present in broken form on the patches.
2. Alopecia areata
It is also appeared as black patches of hair loss on your babies head. It is considered to be mainly caused due to activity shown by the immune system on the growth of hair follicles and resulted infection is non-contagious.
3. Trichotillomania
This is one of the common types of your babies hair loss. It has been reported that such kind of hair loss mainly results because of some activities such as rubbing, plucking, pulling or twisting with the hair. Hair loss is mainly identified in the form of black patches with broken hair of different lengths. These are specifically found on your child’s dominant hand side.
4. Sleeping position
If your baby sleeps at one position for longer duration of time then it can also be one of the major reasons behind your baby hair loss.
5. Fever, stress and hormonal variation
Naturally, around 5 to 15% of total hair on the scalp goes for resting stage at a time. However, if your baby is suffering from unfavorable conditions such as fever or stressful conditions then it either slows or completely stops the growing cycle of the hair. The hormonal change is also one of the causes for hair loss. And after about 3 months, your baby will actually start shedding when the new growth cycle of hair actually starts.
6. Nutritional deficiency
Various essential elements required for proper growth and function of body parts. Such as zinc which helps in all kind of metabolism required by the body. Apart from it, vitamin H or biotin ( one of the B-complex vitamins) helps to maintain the glucose requirement by the body on converting carbohydrate into glucose. Similarly, there are many crucial nutrients demanded by all stages of life whether it is a newborn, pregnant women or any adult person.
7. Endocrine problems
If there is fluctuation in some endocrine hormones level specifically the thyroid hormone level then there can be the possibility of hair loss in your newborn. Thyroid hormone is one of the most important hormones of the body required to run the complete metabolism of the body with a constant pace. However, hair loss in babies can occur in case of hypothyroidism, i.e. the condition at which the synthesis of thyroid hormone becomes lesser than the requirement by the thyroid gland.
Treatment
Hair loss in newborns is not a serious problem. So your babies just need a little care and preventive measures to get rid off this serious problem of hair loss. Here are some basic protective measures:
1. Use of horseshoe pillow
The shape of horseshoe pillow is such that even if your babies will stick to one single sleeping position for longer time, it will really help in preventing them from hair loss condition which usually occurs due to sleep at one position in consistent manner.
2. Gentle massage of scalp with oil
The moment baby arrives in this world, each part of the body is very delicate from inside. Same is the case with head portion of your baby. If you will touch his/her scalp, you will find it very soft. Although a gentle massage does not really help your bay from hair loss but actually helps in strengthening the blood circulation of the scalp. So it is recommended that you should do a gentle massage on your baby’s scalp for better growth in later times.
3. Variation in position
You should take care of changing the sleeping positions of your newborns. Once baby sleeps in one definite position for longer hours then try to put your baby in opposite direction to avoid facing the hair loss condition in later times. If possible try to make your baby lie over the belly for sometime once he/she starts rolling over the bed.
4. Must do shave off
This includes shaving off the baby hair after completion of one year after his birth. This special activity does not really helps in controlling the hair loss in your newborns but at least creates a situation or period of time when there will be lesser possibilities of hair loss or say no hair loss at all.
5. Consult a pediatrician
You should never try things or take risk in case of newborns. If you find that your baby’s hair loss continues since longer time then it is recommended to consult your baby’s pediatrician. This will be the safest step to protect your baby.
Hence, taking complete care of baby with complete knowledge is definitely proved to be desirable. Although, newborn hair loss is one of the common signs shown at very initial days of life but some essential preventive measures can really help you in dealing with such conditions.