Usually when the child falls to the ground, the family sees that there are no missing arms or legs, and a big stone in their hearts also falls. But some parents quickly found that although the child was born with nothing important, there was something more unnecessary: birthmarks! These parents, especially the parents of the female doll, are anxious: what is the birthmark? How ugly, can you get rid of it? Will it affect the body?
Today we will talk about several common birthmarks.
Mongolian spot. Mongolian spots are not unique to Mongolians. In fact, Mongolian spots can occur in yellow newborns of any ethnic group, white people rarely grow, black babies actually grow, but because the whole is black, even if it grows, it can't be seen. This kind of innate, good for lumbosacral and buttocks, flush blue-black patches with **, is a kind of developmental imperfection, not what the folk say This spot is the doll was beaten by the Lord of Yama to reincarnate: How can there be a Lord of Yama in Africa? Black babies aren't the same as they are.
In the process of embryonic development, melanocytes need to slowly differentiate from the neural crest in the center of the embryo, and then move to the epidermis, and after entering the epidermal layer, they can be regularly shed with the metabolism of epidermal cells. Unfortunately, some melanocytes do not cross the junction between the dermis and the epidermis until the moment of birth, so they awkwardly stop in the dermis, which is difficult to metabolize and form pigmentation. Among them, the slightly lighter melanin is black, and the slightly darker melanin is blue-black due to the superimposition of more ** yellow.
Mongolian spots are not good-looking, but there are not too many parents who are worried about it. Because it has no effect on growth and development, and it doesn't grow on the face, but on a part that doesn't need to be seen much, so leave it alone! Relax your heart, after a year or two, when you bathe the child again, you will see, hey, how did it become smaller and shallower? In another year or two, hey, the Mongolian spotted is gone!
Yes, the biggest feature of Mongolian spots is that they will naturally disappear within a few years, and there is no need to treat them at all.
Ota nevus. Those who have watched "Water Margin" may remember the character of the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi, who was isolated, ridiculed, and nicknamed by children since he was a child because of a large blue-brown spot on one side of his eyebrows and eyes, and when he grew up, it was difficult to find a job or a daughter-in-law, so that his personality was extreme and he embarked on the criminal road of being a bandit......
Ahem, okay, in fact, Yang Zhi is not a bad person.
Getting back to business, what is an Ota mole? It is not like a mole, but refers to a large area of brown, blue-gray or blue-purple spots on the eyebrows, eyes or cheekbones, most of which are unilateral, like Yang Zhi, only a few people have both sides. Nearly half of Ota nevi are present at birth, and half do not appear until after the age of 10. It does not disappear on its own like Mongolian spots, but requires multiple lasers** to fade.
Because Ota nevus grows on the face, the area is large and the color is dark, although it is not harmful to health, it has a great impact on the appearance of people's face, and for a considerable number of patients, it will indeed cause a certain degree of adverse effects on their work and life. Although it can't disappear on its own, because the pigment is relatively superficial, the laser** effect is very good, and you can generally see considerable improvement after three or five times**.
Coffee spots. Coffee spots are painless and itchy, and are flush with the surface; There is no special good part, it is possible to grow anywhere; The boundary with normal ** is clear, and the color of the spot itself is like coffee with milk, hence the name coffee spot, also known as café au lait spot.
Most of the coffee spots are not born at birth, but more often when the child is a few months or a year or two old, parents may suddenly notice, hey, when did the child have a light brown spot, and did not see him injured or scratched? It's so hard to detect precisely because the coffee spot itself doesn't cause paresthesia, it's just a patch. As we age, coffee spots may slowly get larger, but most of them are no more than 15 cm.
Coffee spots and neurofibromas, a hereditary benign tumor, sometimes appear at the same time, making many people think that coffee spots mean tumors, but in fact, people with coffee spots do not necessarily have neurofibromas, but people with neurofibromas usually have coffee spots. Most children with coffee spots are still in normal health, and they may only have a spot for life, and even this spot can be removed with a laser. But the coffee spot is larger than 1Children with a size of 5 cm and a number of more than 6 need to go to the hospital to complete the relevant examinations to see if there is a neurofibroma and whether surgical resection is required.
Strawberry spots. Strawberry spot is a hemangioma that protrudes on the surface of **, medically known as capillary hemangioma, which is mostly red granular, just like strawberries. It usually appears within a few weeks of the child's birth, begins to increase in a few months, and grows to the maximum within 1 year of age, 75 to 95% of children can completely or not completely resolve on their own at the age of 5 or 7 years, so most doctors will advise parents of children: do not rush to treatment, if it has not subsided in elementary school, it is not too late to do pulsed laser.
Therefore, it is enough to remind your child not to touch the strawberry spots too often, as this may lead to ulceration, bleeding and even infection. If parents feel that the existence of strawberry spots affects their children's interpersonal communication and psychological development, we recommend that education and guidance should be the main thing first.
Bright red spots. When I was younger, I asked my dad why I had a red mark on my forehead that never faded. 」
My dad said: As soon as you were born, I took you to the ** doctor to see, this is called bright red spot nevus, and some places are also called stork guan bite marks, which are good on the forehead or back of the neck, said to be a benign tumor, in fact, it is a lump of telangiectasia, some people have bright red spots on the eyelids, and they are afraid that they will be pressed down and affect their eyes in the future, so they must be removed by pulsed laser, and some people have bright red spots that are thicker and thicker and not good-looking, so they also do it. Your piece is small and doesn't protrude, and the bright red spot doesn't change malignantly, so I ignore it. 」
I was a little upset and said, "But no one else is like that." 」
My dad said, "Because they're not as special as you, you're going to do great things in the future." 」
I believed it, I believed it, and for a few years I even thought I grew up to save the world. Every time I cry and I lose my temper, my bright red spots become more obvious, and it reminds me: don't be willful, don't be willful, be a good child, you are the child who will save the world in the future! When I grew up, I realized that 3 or 5 out of every 1,000 children in the world have bright red spots, and it's really not that special! But my father's approval made me confident for a long time.
Later I had a child of my own, and my child also had the same bright red spot on his forehead. I think I'll tell him in the future that maybe others don't see your birthmark perfectly, but in my mother's eyes, you are so special, maybe you will save the world in the future!