What is Lanugo?
Lanugo is a downy, untreated hair found on fruits and sometimes malnourished children and adults. Although it is usually shed in the womb, Lanugo is sometimes still present in newborn children, especially if they are born prematurely. Usually, Lanugo is shed on the newborn in a few days or weeks and replaced by the vellus hair, which are pale, softer and less gloomy appearance. VELLUS Hair remains on the body throughout the life and later connects darker, coarser terminal hair, especially after puberty.
The body develops all the hair follicles it ever has in the womb. The hair follicle is a structure similar to the tube in the skin that produces a strand of hair. The follicle is usually composed of a papilla that projects up into the tube, a small blood vessels called capillaries, a bulb, which forms a living part of the hair deep in the skin, a sebaceous gland that releases conditioning oils, erect and hair shaft that extends from charging. The IS shaft consists of scaly dead cells that are carefulThey are stacked and spread from the follicle to create visible strands of hair.
Lanugo is the first form of hair created by hair follicles, usually around the fourteenth week of pregnancy. Fetus usually shed these hair while it is still in the womb, around the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy. Lanugo then becomes part of the amniotic fluid and can be a child. This is absolutely healthy and later the child eliminates the hair in its meconium or the first stool.
The presence of Lanuga usually suggests premature birth and resembles a colorless fur all over the body, with the exceptions for ashamed and a major, lips, nails, hips of fingers and legs, palms of hands, leg bottom and penis. Hair is often particularly prevailing over shoulders, back and cheeks. Los Angelesnugo always shed them, often within a few days or weeks, and does not require any treatment. The condition is not contagious and does not endanger the child, although premature birth mayEst the other complications.
As soon as Lanugo never returns to a healthy person. However, patients with heavy malnutrition may begin to notice the growth of hairy, light colored hair on their faces and bodies. Hungry patients sometimes begin to grow Lanugo to isolate the body and keep it warm when the patient has bad circulation and lack of body fat. This is particularly common in patients with anorexia nervosa, eating disorder that causes patients to obses with body weight and are exterminated by starvation, excessive exercise and drugs. In this case, anorexia, rather than Lanugo, is treated with therapy and diet regimen to ensure weight gain.