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5 year old hair smell

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Eesha · 01/02/2022 18:51

My daughters hair really smells even after 1 day. I'm really unsure how other than she has a bad thumb sucking habit which I'm wondering whether this dried saliva might be getting on her hair. Does anyone else have experience of this? It's a sickly stagnant smell and other than daily washing, I don't know what to do.

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ludocris · 02/02/2022 16:56

Is it very recent? We just had this with our son the past couple of days, and it turned out to be an infected sore on his scalp. He has a lot of hair so it wasn't obvious without digging around.

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Eesha · 02/02/2022 21:59

@ludocris I haven't really noticed it that much but might have been a few months now. The doctor has said this shampoo Capasal might be an option.

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