My hair seems to fall out every year and then it grows back. I can comb my hair and the comb is full of hair. Right know my hair is falling out and I noticed a bald spot on the left side of my head. I read so of the other people’s concerns and you stated that your hair don’t fall out year to year. In my case it does I wrote it down and it always happen in Feb-April each year. Please tell me what I can do about this.
I would want to know if you are using a tight hat or if you have done anything different during this time period that might cause the hair loss you see. Normally, humans have asynchronous hair cycling, which means that we lose on average 100 hairs per day and regrow the same numbers of hairs. In a 3 1/2 year hair cycle, the entire 100,000 hairs will replace themselves.
Some doctors think that humans may have more hair loss in the spring and less during the winter when it is colder, but frankly, I don’t believe anyone really knows. I can not explain your problem, but if the hair did not come back on schedule, I would be more than concerned.
Most doctors don’t believe in unusual seasonal shedding. But I assur you it’s true. For the past 3 years I have horrid shedding from May to August accomponied by itchy irritated scalp. I do nothing different at all. NOTHING. I don’t die my hair, use no products other then the best shampoo, no hair dryer etc. I have read of many others who have this exact thing. Today I lost 400 hairs.Summer I loose from 75 to 400 a day. I count them every single day for 3 years. Winter loss for me is about 25. Sometimes even less. I have had every lab i can think of and nothing is unusual. I have seen 14 doctors and no help. Do you have any input or can you offer any help. Thank You kindly.
Kathy – Me too! Every summer, like June-September. It started a few years ago, after I went through menopause. I feel like I’m shedding like a dog. What I hate is that now (January) my head is full of short hair where it is all growing back in, and I have to plaster it down so it is not sticking up all over the place. It will look fine in April or May and then the cycle starts again. I do have ‘spots’ of the itchy, irritated scalp, which they called Folliculitis. They never seem to heal. I scratch, they scab, scab falls off, calm for awhile and then it starts again in same spot. These spots are like boils, and they are sore and have pus in them. Gross. But I don’t think they are related to my hair loss since I had them before I started losing the hair.