Sydney: Babies are born with fine, downy, short, and slightly pigmented body hair called lanugo. The term comes from the Latin word lana, meaning wool. In some babies, the hair is barely visible.

In fact, your baby's hair journey begins in the second trimester, when a fine hair called lanugo develops. Lanugo is the soft hair that forms on your baby's body around week 21. Lanugo helps ...

In one case, a 68-year-old woman reported feeling like her tongue was burning — and she had fine lanugo hair all over her face. She was diagnosed with HLA and rectal cancer before undergoing ...