Foreword:
Every parent wants their children to be healthy and lively, with beautiful and lovely appearance. But sometimes it backfires, and some children will be troubled by birthmark lesions. There is no way to predict which children will have birthmarks and why. Birthmark is not related to the mother's violation of certain taboos during pregnancy, as folk customs say. A child's birthmark can be said to be a gift from heaven or a test, depending on what kind of mentality we use to face such a challenge.
Types and diagnosis of birthmarks
Birthmark, medically called "mother spot" or "mole", is an abnormal proliferation of skin tissue during development, with abnormal shape and color on the skin surface. Birthmarks can be found at birth or a few months later. Birthmarks can generally be divided into pigment type and vascular type. The common pigment types are Ota mother spot, congenital melanin mother spot, coffee milk spot and so on. The types of blood vessels include wine stains and strawberry hemangioma.
Simple self-diagnosis of birthmark color
Black birthmark: melanocyte nevus, congenital hirsute melanin mother spot, dermoid nevus, spotted nevus.
Blue birthmark: Mongolian spot, Ota mother spot, Ito mother spot, blue mother spot.
Brown birthmark: coffee milk spot, baker's mother spot
Red birthmark: wine nevus, flame nevus, strawberry hemangioma.
Purple birthmark: cutaneous venous tumor, cavernous hemangioma.
Skin birthmark: epidermal mother spot, sebum mother spot, connective tissue nevus.
Incidence rate of birthmark
The incidence of neonatal birthmarks is about 10%, which can be said to be very common. Most birthmarks only affect the appearance and do not need special treatment. However, some birthmarks may be combined with abnormalities of body organs, and even have the possibility of malignant transformation, which must be actively treated. For example, some cavernous hemangioma proliferates too fast, which will cause limb deformity, not only ugly appearance, but also dysfunction. Even if hemangioma expands too fast, it will form tissue necrosis, and excessive consumption of platelets will make coagulation function low and bleeding will not stop. Some fur-like moles may become malignant melanoma in the future, which will lead to death after metastasis.
Facial birthmarks need active treatment.
Some people joked that once a person with a birthmark becomes a missing person, the chances of finding it are higher. But if the birthmark grows on the face, hands and feet and other obvious parts, people today will be in trouble. Some people paint heavy makeup every day to cover it up, while others feel inferior and hesitate to socialize. The obvious birthmark on the face is easy to be treated differently by others, which will make the patient suffer a great psychological blow; Children, in particular, tend to feel inferior or autistic when they grow up. According to European and American studies, the birthmark on the face will affect the psychological development of children and become a personality problem in the future. Therefore, in Britain, Canada and Japan, legislation is made to help children remove facial birthmarks free of charge through insurance compensation, so as to avoid the need for greater efforts to correct their psychology in the future. Last summer, Wenshan District held a free clinic, and 17 children received treatment. Finding the brand on their faces really brought them a burden of growth. There was a timid little girl who refused to take pictures since she was a child because of the hairy melanin spots on her cheeks, and she also lost the fun of looking at the mirror. My younger brother Xiao Ku often has conflicts and fights with his classmates. The reason is that the wine stains on his face turn red when he exercises, so he is called a red-faced duck. The clear sea water on the right face of the little boy almost covered his eyes, which seriously affected his vision, just because he wanted to cover his eyelids, like a black birthmark of a bitch. However, there are also two children who are proud of the birthmark on their faces and think it is a natural birthmark because their parents ask them to remove it.
Does laser tattoo hurt? This is a problem that every child and parent will feel uneasy before treatment. In fact, laser is very painful, and the burning feeling of irradiation is very similar to that of rubber band bouncing or burning with wax oil. The process needs the comfort and perseverance of parents to overcome. Although general anesthesia can relieve pain, it will increase the risk of treatment and is not recommended at present. Sticking a local anesthetic patch or using a cryogenic cooling system can alleviate the pain of children. Although it hurts a little when the laser hits the skin, it is worthwhile to wash away the innate brand.
1. gold ring rubbing birthmark therapy:
People have always dreamed of conquering birthmarks. In our country, the ancient treatment of removing birthmarks by rubbing with gold rings has a long history, but it will take too long.
2. External application of traditional Chinese medicine:
Others try to use traditional Chinese medicine for external application, which will not only be bad after a long time, but also leave scars.
3. Cryotherapy:
Not only is it ineffective, but it will also leave scars.
4. Isotope therapy:
Modern isotope application therapy has inhibited the growth of birthmarks, but the effect is not ideal because it will leave secondary leukoplakia, melanosis and muscle stiffness.
5. Skin grafting method:
The cosmetic effect is not ideal.
6. Laser scanning method:
Using the heat of laser, the birthmark can be bleached and peeled off immediately, but it will turn red again in a few months.
7. Laser drug method:
After drug injection, local irradiation with color laser with a certain wavelength will make the drug react with light and make the capillaries close and contract, thus achieving the purpose of removing black. It has a good effect on patients with pink birthmark, and the recurrence rate is lower than that of laser scanning.
8. Light gold therapist
Gold therapy
Inspired by the therapy of removing birthmarks by rubbing gold rings in ancient China, rare metal elements were dissolved in traditional Chinese medicine to make a bright gold coating, which was applied to the red birthmark and then irradiated with strong light. This method is called bright gold therapy. It solves the two major problems of unsatisfactory effect and recurrence in patients with purplish red and nodular type, and makes the treatment of birthmark leap to a new level. Experiments show that rare metal elements can kill and inhibit the growth of capillary birthmarks. Dissolving rare metal elements in traditional Chinese medicine coating can greatly enhance the absorption speed and amount of rare metal elements compared with gold ring, thus enhancing the curative effect of rare metal elements.
Gold therapy
For the birthmark patients, light gold therapy can achieve three effects: complete disappearance, basic disappearance and remarkable treatment, each accounting for about 1/3.
The specific criteria of these three effects are: 1) completely disappeared, exactly the same as good skin; 2) It basically disappears, which is basically the same as good skin and does not affect social interaction; 3) The curative effect is remarkable, but there is still a difference compared with good skin.
Generally speaking, the lighter and darker the effect, the worse the thicker and purplish black effect, so the birthmark must be treated as soon as possible and completely disappear.