Many hospitals have been accepted the children who were suffered from smallpox on head or skin infection due to improper shaved. Doctors advise parents, children's resistibility is weak, some skin infection may be quite normal for adults, but for baby, they may be the fatal injuries. Therefore, parents should pay attention to children's life details when nursing, and cannot ignore children’s health.

Some folk parlances consider that newborn baby's fetal hair should be shaved, so that his hair will be black and dense. Therefore, many young parents like to give the tonsure to newborn babies. But doctors remind new parents that they must be prudently when giving the tonsure to their babies.

Doctors introduced that, many hospitals have been accepted the children who were suffered from smallpox on head or skin infection due to improper shaved. Doctors advise parents, children's resistibility is weak, some skin infection may be quite normal for adults, but for baby, they may be the fatal injuries. Therefore, parents should pay attention to children's life details when nursing, and cannot ignore children’s health.

Many people think that hair will increase the temperature. This is a misunderstanding of hair. In fact, hair can protect baby's head, when the head is attacked accidentally or hurt by outside object, dense and flexible hair will stand in the breach and it will prevent or mitigate the damage; in addition, hair can help human body to eliminate heat, adjust the temperature. Giving the tonsure to children actually weaken the function of heat elimination.

Moreover, after shaving head, children's head skin will be exposed, if they do not pay attention to prevent sunburn when going out, which will lead to brain damage due to the sunlight direct radiation and occur "insolation". In addition, baby's scalp is tender; the scalp and hair-follicle organization will be easily damaged when shaving. The various bacterial will easily invaded and cause miliaria, boil etc, and severe one will cause blood poisoning. If bacterial invaded into children's scalp and rooting to destroy hair follicle, which will affect the normal growth of scalp. Therefore, in summer, parents do not give the tonsure to children, especially the babies.

Doctors reminded, although giving the tonsure to children is not acceptable. But in some certain circumstances, parents should consider to give the tonsure to children. If baby's hair is thick and the scalp combined with bacteria or fungal infections, in order to clean it up and get a better medication, parents should give the tonsure to children and effect a radical cure.