Category: Hair Loss Causes

Hello, i attend Technical High School and i am a senior. As a senior i have to do a research paper and i need an interview source so i was wondering if you could help me out Please.My paper is on the effects of smoking on the hair and skin.

I have some questions to ask you for my reasearch paper if that is alright..:

Does smoking really cause hair loss?
How long on average does it take for smoking to have an effect on hair loss?
Why does smoking cause hair loss?
What is the best way to deal with hair loss in a salon?

Well thank you for all your help, i hope you get back to me soon with my answers.

While smoking does not directly cause hair loss, it has been shown to reduce the circulation of the blood flow through the scalp. For past posts related to this, see:

• Smoking Cigarettes and Hair Loss
• If I Quit Smoking Will My Hair Regrow?
• Can Smoking Cause Hair Loss?
• Tobacco and Hair Loss

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Hi! I recently overplucked 1/4 of top of both my eyebrows and this just happened once but I was just wondering if they will EVER grow back and for how long do I have to wait. I naturally have thick and dark eyebrows. Please help I need your advice.

Only time will tell. Most people will regrow the eyebrows.

I had the gastric bypass surgery in January 2007 and I understand that my hair loss is due to the surgery and I need to continue my vitamins. My question is will i ever get my hair back?

Gastric bypass is a surgically produced malnutrition that generally includes all components of the food. The vitamins, minerals, and proteins are generally substituted by post-surgical diets. It may take several months until you get your hair back.

The combination of the stress of surgery and micro-nutrient malnutrition are known to be pushing hair into telogen phase and if you have any genetic balding you may have pushed yourself (through the stress of the surgery) into the beginning of genetic hair loss. Just wait and make sure you are on top of your vitamins and high protein diet that is generally recommended after gastric bypass.

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I recently had surgury for removal of 2 uterine cancerous tumors… the surgery went fine… but when i woke up in my room i had a very large bump on the back of my head. I mentioned it to my dr and to some of the nurses, but nobody seemed to know how it got there… anyway after the bump went away I lost all of my hair in that spot… should i be concerned or just wait for it to grow back

Sounds like something happened in surgery to cause these bumps on your head if you woke up and they were there. To lose your hair with the appearance of the bumps might confirm that. Hair loss from trauma might reverse, depending upon the type of injury. You will know in about 6 months, but I would certainly press your doctor/surgeon/anesthesiologist for what happened to you.

I am a 37 year old white male who underwent 3 transplant procedures in Birmingham, AL in 1996, 1997, and 1998. I was pleased and continue to be pleased with the results. I began taking Propecia right before the 3rd procedure and have continued daily since and it has worked well by eliminating the loss (if only propecia had been around in 1988 when I first began to notice my hair loss).

The physician in Birmingham did a great job framing my face. He did not create a very low hairline. It was just right. The front and middle of my head is all grafts and I comb them to the side and get good scalp coverage. As a physician, I get asked “Are you still a resident, are you old enough to be a doctor?” and I never got these questions before the transplants WHILE I was a resident.

Now, I am contemplating doing another procedure. Why? Well, one, I easily have the financing. Also, two I always wanted to thicken it up in the future. And three, I now have a schedule that is very flexible.

However, I am scared. I spent the last 2 days reading about shock hair loss. I had never heard of this before. It did not happen during my 3 previous operations. But, it frightens me to think of knocking out my existing grafts even for a short time period. [I am certainly glad the internet was not as prominent a fixture in my life in the mid 90s). Further, as a hospitalist, when I work I spend my time dealing with the worst of the sick and many involved complications from surgery. This does not help the psyche.}

I don’t plan some huge megasession. It is to be a session of about 300 grafts taken from the back and leaving a linear scar (not FUE). The session’s purpose is to add density to areas chosen by me and the surgeon. This is the same surgeon that did the 3 prior operations.

Questions:

1. Am I being rational with this fear?
2. Can you estimate a probability of shock loss to the existing grafts occurring given my clinical circumstances? [Note I have compared pictures over the last 9 years, and the graft growth appears unchanged. Further the strands appear as strong as they did say 5 years ago.]
3. Am I selling short by not seeking out FUE somewhere? The doctor in Birmingham is the premiere guy in the state but does not do FUE.
4. Overall, would you say go for it or not?

Shock loss in a person who had three hair transplant procedures in the past with no loss would be unusual. I can not tell you about the techniques offered to you by your surgeon, but if you trust your surgeon and you understand what he/she is going to do, go for it. Be sure to ask these questions to your doctor. You and I don’t have a relationship, but you and your doctor do.

My question is whether or not a female relatives balding is any indicator of a male descendants balding. I’m a 24 year old black male. I have early minituraization which i will be seeing you about shortly; but i’ve also noticed that my mother’s hair is thinning, is that any indicator of why i may be experiencing hair loss? And if so, have we been referring to MPB and FPB incorrectly, as they may be genetically the same thing?

Female pattern baldness generally does not have to do with the male pattern hair loss. In other words, the two hair loss conditions have different ways of transmission and different characteristics. Women do transmit male pattern balding (51% come from the mothers side of the family). You may have received the genes for male pattern baldness from either side of the family, which is independent to genetic hair loss in female members of family.