My 6 year old daughter has lots of hair on her arm.?

Question

Her class mates make fun of her all the time. Hence, she wears long sleeves all the time. How do I get rid of the hair at this young age?

Answer 1

It is the mark of the beast, just kidding, my daughter had the same thing but the hair eventually started falling out, maybe that will happen to her as well, if not try laser removal.

Answer 2

honestly, we all have stuff about us that we may not like and it's worse when others pick up on those "flaws" and flaunt them around like it's fun.

i feel for your daughter, but i wouldn't do anything to get rid of the hair. she is her own special person and you love her just as she is, so teach her how to love herself, hairy arms and all.

my ears have always stuck out a good bit. they are bit large too and when i was a kid i got made fun of ALL THE TIME. sometimes i would cry and sometimes i would just ignore it. it's no fun, but it's a part of life. it had gotten so bad that my parents offered to pay to get them tucked back. i was going into 7th grade they felt that i was old enough to decide and if i chose that i didn't want the surgery then they didn't want to hear another word about my big ears sticking out.
well, i thought about it and i realized that i am me. i don't want to change me just to feel better, b/c there will always be something. at least i had gotten used to my ears being my flaw. the last thing i needed was to fix my ears and then someone find something else to tease me about!
so, i opted for no surgery.
to this day i will never get a short hair cut and i will never have my picture taken in a ponytail unless it's from the proper angle. however, i have really good hearing and i can hear stuff some people can't...kinda funny:)

my point is....i am a pretty well adjusted adult with a husband and gorgeous son. i can joke about my ears, now and i don't mind b/c it was a speed bump in my life and i overcame it and i look back at the kid i was and i'm proud of her for loving herself enough to not care about mean kids.

so, let your daughter's arms alone. if she wants, when she gets older, she can get some thinning treatments, or it may just change over time on it's own.

teach her to love herself and not care about the other kids. maybe help her come up with some jokes about it, b/c if she is laughing too, then the other kids won't be so interested in making fun of her.

take care and i wish your daughter all the happiness in the world:)

Answer 3

Is the hair very dark? You could try bleaching it to make it less noticeable. I would talk to her doctor-perhaps theres a medical reason.

Also is it possible she has "Werewolf" syndrome (there's a more scientific name-but I don't know what it is)? WS is most likely an X linked dominant gene-meaning it is carried on the female gene. Girls that carry the gene us ally have excessive, patchy hair growth on their upper body. Boys that affected usually have thick course excessive growth on their upper body and face-hence the name of the syndrome. The reason boys have more growth is that they only have one X chromosome, meaning they will display the characteristics of the gene with more magnitude. Girls because they have 2 X Chromosomes (no Y-not a boy) they most likely will carry a dominant and a recessive gene and therefore not show symptoms with such magnitude. The only way for a girl to have full blown WS is if her father also carried and displayed the werewolf gene, meaning he was hairy.

Answer 4

I don't think anything would work barring laser - but laser is costly, and takes a long time if it's going to be on hairy arms. And laser, if done poorly, can cause scars, and even not work.

waxing obviously would be very painful

bleaching seems like the less traumatic option for such a your girl.

leave it to her, 10 years from now, to decide whether she's ok with something more painful

Answer 5

have you ever examined her for celiac ailment, she would have a nutrition intolerance to wheat/gluten if she's having gastrointestinal issues. The drugs she's on would desire to be inflicting all the different issues one after the different. try to take her off the different meds and take care of or try each and every thing separately if attainable. She has been by lots for a three 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous. The docs will take care of her and fasten the difficulty temporarily yet are actually not attending to the factor. i could shop getting 2d and third evaluations etc till you ultimately get an answer.

Answer 6

leave the poor kid alone, by removing it you are saying this is bad lets get rid of it! plus i was the same way when i was six and i got teased and i shaved it myself and it grew back much worse, so just teach her some come backs that she cant get in trouble for saying and leave it at that. also i recommend if this hair problem is bad enough next time she needs shots or a check up have the doc take a look. (if u make it its own appointment then she will get scared and think wow this is bad)

Answer 7

This might be odd, but I'd suggest a safe shaver like a Braun or Conair, they make them in all sorts of sizes. There are no sharp edges on them, and you can either show her how to do it or you can supervise her while removing it. No waxing, that's painful and frankly, mean.

If she chooses to have the hair removed, that's one way to go about it. In the end, however, it is her choice and nobody else's as to what she wants to do.

Answer 8

I wouldn't get rid of the hair. At six years old you need to teach her to love herself just the way she is. Help her to learn how to deal with the teasing. Promote high self-esteem. Tell her to tell those kids that at least she will stay warm in the winter, and then laugh it off. If you teach her to remove it you will be teaching her she has something to be ashamed of.

Answer 9

My daughter is the same way. She has a concentration of dark hair in one area and it is very noticable. Come summer time I am going to attempt to lighten it so it's not that noticable and if that doesnt work, use nair or something.

Answer 10

Any hair removal system will do, it depends how much you want to spend. Hair removal creams, shaving, laser therapy, electrolysis...