Many of the children after birth and during the first months of life have the head yellowish or grey brown. Often referred to as “dairy”, although they don’t have to milk any way. The reason for their formation are problems with the work of sweat and sebaceous glands in the head region of hair follicles.
Such crusts at other ages is not formed and they do not belong to serious diseases, rather – to age features of the child. But it is important to eliminate them, so as not to cause damage to the scalp and the transition of milk crusts in other, more serious problems with the baby’s head.
If this is your first baby and the young parents don’t have the skills to care for a child, they often start to actively remove or comb out the crust, making it worse. It is important to know how to clean the head, what to do with the crusts and if they need to do to remove it? Often forming a rich crust is a sign of some other health problems.
Milk crust on the head of infants: dangerous?
One of the most frequent questions at the first doctor’s visits at home or when visiting the clinic getting education on the baby’s head, in the region of the large Fontanelle and the frontal mounds, and partly of the frontal bone of crusts or scales, of the film that gradually condensed.
Looks like tumors don’t always look aesthetically pleasing, for which the people called them “generic dirt”. They have a yellow or brownish gray or whitish color, fat and unctuous to the touch, similar to the layers of fat. If you remove the piece of crust, quite quickly it is formed again, and often the area of damage on the head is gradually expanding.
Often parents are worrying that the crust harm the baby, attempting through improvised and folk methods to remove them, but often after a few days of crust in an even greater volume are formed again.
This is usually due to the fact that methods of dealing with the crusts wrong, they damage the delicate skin and lead to the stimulation of the recurrence of growths. How dangerous these crusts in principle, should they have to remove and how?
Causes of crusts seborrheic dermatitis
Dairy crust, and they – seborrheic dermatitis is a specific skin lesion in infants. In connection with soft skin and long finding her in the aquatic environment, and the presence of intrauterine cheese-like protective lubricant, the skin of the baby is not fully adapted to move in the air. At birth, when cheese-like lubricant is eliminated, and the glands in the skin are not yet set up their work, may cause irritation and excessive dryness. This leads to the formation of superficial inflammation and increased production of sebum, forming a dense crust on the head.
A similar phenomenon in varying degrees is typical for one third of all newborn children, often such a phenomenon may persist for the first two or three years with gradual complete disappearance.
If we talk about its main manifestations, it will be skin irritation in the head area on the border of hair growth. In the area of the base of the hair are greasy to the touch, brown with grey, whitish or yellowish, brown. The thickness of the crusts can vary from 0.1 mm to 1-2 mm. some kids crust is abundant, may have peculiar smell, hairs in the region of their formation tangle or roll out.
In some cases, these crusts are moving in behind the ear and over the head, in the neck region and the surface of the eyebrows, axillary region, or inguinal folds. Usually this happens when improper care of baby’s skin.
The basis for the formation of such skin lesions is the population of the skin specific parasitic fungi called malassezia furfur. On skin when activated, their breeding stimulates skin secrets, including the functioning of the sebaceous glands. This forms a skin irritation and sometimes itching and burning, if it is a complicated form of dermatitis encountered in the effort to forcibly remove the crusts. This is possible in adulthood in the presence of seborrheic dermatitis, and extreme attention with the therapy. If you do not carry out the necessary action or force to remove the peel with a skin injury, there are a brushing of the skin with pustules that complicates the situation and creates more crust. In such cases, it is hard to diagnose and find treatment.
Which contributes to the formation of the LEP at the head of the newborn
If you say that the basis for the development of crusts is the infection of malassezia furfur, not all infants the presence of this fungus on the skin leads to the crusts. There are certain factors that can contribute to the development of abundant growths in some children and clean the skin of others. So, if we talk about the babies, the leading factor they consider to be the allergic predisposition and hereditary characteristics of the skin of the child that are inherited from both parents.
If the mother or father in childhood was similar crusts on the head, with a high probability they will arise and the baby. But the intensity of these crusts varies and depends on many factors.
One of the precipitating factors for the provocation of seborrheic lesions of the scalp is becoming a common infectious disease. Particularly important are children’s colds and infection, reflecting a General reduction in immune defence as a whole body and local systems – on the skin and mucous membranes.
Can provoke skin lesions with the development of seborrhea various strong medications taken excessively for digestive problems, especially against the background of constipation or diarrhea. An important role is also played by the defects in the feeding of crumbs from the early translation of his breast feeding to formula or cow’s milk, authentic foods in the form of yogurt, cereal or other foods. It is associated with increased sensitization of the organism and the formation of food sensitization.
You need to find out?
If the crust in the area of hair crumbs appeared recently and quite dramatically, they are scant, it is important due to systematic events gradually to get rid of them, using gentle methods. In addition, it is important in each case to find out the cause of their formation has as much as possible to eliminate the negative impact on the body.
Sharply can be formed Corky, and very broad and dense, with increased secretion of the sebaceous glands. It is possible under rare care hair on her head and bathing the crumbs at constant wearing beanies even in the home and in a warm environment. This leads to overheating and sweating of the head, enhance the activity of her glands and excessive production of hair sebum in enhanced quantities.
Leads to the formation of crusts or sharp distribution of improper care for the skin on the head, Vaskresenie scabs from hair nails or comb their steam and otmuchivanie different compositions.
Often the crust provoked the wrong selection of cosmetics needed for the baby and his delicate skin – if hair is washed older vehicles or regular hand soap.
Often, such problem occurs with the constant confronts wearing synthetic hats in the summer, waistcoats, caps, hats, head sweats when needed and with sufficient ventilation.
With proper care, the crust gradually decrease in size and disappear closer to the age of one year.
Do I need treatment of seborrheic dermatitis?
Regarding the treatment of seborrheic dermatitis is still a lot of controversy, and this is a difficult question, especially at an early age. If you remove all of the causal factors that lead to the formation of crusts on the head remains – removal from food and household allergens, elimination of permanent injuries to irritated skin, the removal of hats when sweating of the head, scabs may disappear. Those that are, gradually, going unnoticed.
However, if approached from the other hand – a dense crust on the baby’s head disrupts the normal skin breathing that disrupts how the sebaceous glands, and those that produce sweat. This can lead to abnormal reactions of the receptors with increased production of sebum followed by increase new more abundant, dense crusts. Throw in unaesthetic appearance of the head crumbs, which can cause the issues surrounding the constant advice of relatives for the removal of formations. Important before removing crusts to consult with a pediatrician or pediatric dermatologist.
Therapies with abundant crusts
It is important in approaching the treatment of seborrheic dermatitis and elimination of the crusts to be guided by simple rules on hygiene. So, it is forbidden in normal and soap in bars, adult shampoos or gels. The choice of only hypoallergenic and age-appropriate ways to wash the body and head, use them no more than twice a week. All other days the head when bathing you can just wash with water. It is acceptable to use for hygienic purposes of decoctions of chamomile or succession, they can be used more than once in seven days to wash or rinse the skin on the head.
If it’s a baby, it is important to revise the diet of the mother in favor hypoallergenic, and if it is iskusstvenny – to eliminate from his power all the potentially allergenic compound and lures.
Prohibited products such as chocolate and honey, eggs and fish, strawberries, citrus or tomatoes. Is important to limit drinking cow’s milk. For these products the high allergenist, even when they are included in the diet of lactating women.
If there is seborrheic dermatitis with lesions of the skin precisely on the head surface of the neck or behind the ear space, it leads to the formation of yellowish crusts, itching and peeling. You need to wet the cotton wool baby cream or sterile oil to remove all the flaking crust. If cover is not immediately depart, you need to apply these compositions to the region of peel and to allow time for mixing with warm water, to gently remove loose peel.
You can treat seborrheic dermatitis with the use of pharmaceutical forms of vitamin A or E. the product can be used in infants as in the form of drops and applying creams with these compounds on the affected areas of the skin. It improves the condition of the skin, eliminate flaking and irritation, making the skin crumbs supple, healthy and soft.
Subject to Express seborrheic dermatitis, striking area hairs on your head, you can use the advice of a physician special shampoos with the content of antifungal drugs, should change hats, caps or waistcoats should be of a light breathable material, less likely to be bareheaded in the sun.
Elimination of existing soft crusts
If the head already formed a crust, gently remove without causing scalp damage, and normalizing the skin breathing head, suppressing the inflammatory process. Formed crust can interfere with normal growth of hairs on the head, and it is not necessary to wait until the peel will fall away. However, rough combing or Stripping their nails or comb is also prohibited.
Must be from scabbing desquamation of the crusts with a soft brush, and the rest tight to remove in one of two easy ways:
- The first method – applied to the skin, hypoallergenic baby oil or boiled olive oil. They are used just a couple of hours before bathing your baby. After applying makeup you have to wear a little thin cap (necessarily thin or knit, or cotton), waiting for a softening of crusts. When bathing be applied to the treated brown water is foamed with shampoo, massage with fingers and allow to soften while you wash the baby or he swims. Gradually, the part of the peel will be washed away with water.
- The second way is when swimming on the scalp at the surface of the crust evenly you need to apply a lot of shampoo with water and swim in the tub for about 15-20 minutes so that the skin and peel softened and withdrew on their own. Spasseruyte fingertips all departed the crust, without touching the ones still not soaked. Similarly, at each bathing gradually, you can remove the cover without damaging the scalp. After swimming you need to wet your head with a towel (do not RUB) and comb hair brush.
How to prevent scabs on your head?
To prevent the formation of crusts in the region of the head hairs and it is important to choose the right cosmetics for baby, using only verified compounds and products known firms. You need to buy it only in drugstores or children’s stores, where it has all the quality certificates. It is important to strictly observe all recommendations on the age of the application, and strictly following the provided on the label instructions.
It is necessary to abandon child cosmetic, having a bright color and a sharp smell, it’s colors and flavors, preservatives, harmful to the skin. It is worth examining the label, that there was the most natural ingredients. For children with scabs on my head should choose only hypoallergenic formulations of shampoos and dishwashing.
If hairs on the head of the crumbs quite a bit after birth at first not to use the shampoo is enough to wash the head as well as all the skin on your newborn’s body. Not required daily to wash the area of the baby’s head with shampoo, it is enough to apply a couple times a week, the hairs are not able to quickly get dirty and not washed off the protective lipid layer of the skin.
To comb the hair on the head to gently secure comb or a special brush with soft bristles. No need to constantly wear a hat if cool need to apply it just after bathing, while the head wet until it dries. At normal room temperature the child at home don’t need a cap at all, and need to pick up a beanie for the season. With natural-based lining. It should be washed frequently and it should be airtight.
