Category: Hair Loss Causes

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17 Year Old with White Hairs – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

I am a 17 year old male. I started noticing that I was losing just a little bit of hair when I use shampoo. I know its normal to lose a little bit of hair. I also started using a hair dryer to style my hair. I noticed that I was starting to grow white hair. I have only a few white hair right now. Is this normal? Does this mean I will be losing hair??

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White hair has nothing to do with hair loss or the shampoo you select unless there is a bleaching component in the shampoo, which could bleach your hair. Some people genetically grow gray/white hair earlier than others. It is normal to lose up to 100 hairs per day. Excessive blow drying may affect your scalp and hair by making it more brittle, thereby leading to hair loss.

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Coeliac Disease and Hair Loss – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

hi, i am 17 years old and have been experiencing hair loss for the last 2 years. it is general thinning all over, especially on the sides, and have been told its due to Male pattern baldness (even though parents and grandparents still have full head of hair). i am willing to accept it as i understand these things happen, but i have also lately noticed, that my pubic hair has been thinning reasonably at same rate as hair loss on head. is there possibly any connection? and if there is, any cures? i would also like to add that i have Coeliac Disease, and have constantly recorded low iron levels, though over the last year i have take iron supplements. i would be really delighted to hear that it could be something else other than male pattern baldness

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Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disease. All forms of coeliac disease involve IgA antibodies and intolerance to the gliadin fraction of gluten found in wheat. Thus, your hair loss could be due to coeliac disease as your antibodies can attack the hair follicle, leading to generalized hair loss on your scalp and body. Taking a multivitamin may help with hair loss, because people with coeliac disease tend to lack certain minerals and vitamins due to intestinal mal-absorption (which can cause hair loss by missing dietary elements critical to hair growth). However, ultimately, you may need an immune suppression medication to control the antibody produced in your body from attacking your hair. More in depth evaluation of your hair may be a good place to start before considering any treatment. Clearly, the doctor who is in charge of your coeliac problem should be ‘in-charge’ of your medications for any such suppressive immunological treatment.

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18 Year Old With Hair Falling Out in Clumps – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

I’m only 18 years of age and have started to lose a lot of hair within the last 6 months. I’ve never really had a high hairline or anything. I’ve always had thick bushy hair at the front. I don’t think it can be androgenetic because everybody in my whole entire family, whether it be my parents parents or just my parents, all of them have a full head of hair. My brothers all have a full head of hair too and no sign of receding.

I was reading on the internet about hair loss and how it can be linked with cancer. I have found a lump and I was wondering if this could be anything to do with it. I have seen the doctor and he’s also bald (doesnt give me much hope) and had a blood test. It’s really depressing to find clumps of hair faling out each day and not growing back. If there are any solutions for regrowth please could you let me know. Thankyou!

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If you are concerned that you have some disease, then first address this as your highest priority with a good doctor. Assuming that you have no medical problem, then you need to be managed by a doctor who can make the proper diagnosis (assuming that you have genetic hair loss) and then mapping out your head for miniaturization.

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Marijuana and Hair Loss – Hair Loss Information by Dr. William Rassman

Does smoking marijuana cause hair loss?

It has been suggested that there is a connection between marijuana smoking and hair loss. However, since many young men are genetically predetermined to lose their hair, a man who both smokes and has genetic hair loss may produce further connections, real, circumstantial or otherwise.

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My Hair Loss Pattern is Not on the Norwood Chart – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

Dear Sir,
My hair loss does not resemble any of the stages in NORWOOD SCALE! I mean i am using hair on the entire SCALP (Not back and sides), but im using it uniformly on the scalp. Theres no such condition in norwood scale. this makes me wonder if i have MPB….though my dematologist says i do have MPB. Also, can there be any tests, which can be done so that i can figure out if Propecia will have side effects on me or not?

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You need to have your hair mapped out for miniaturization, which will show patterns that the eye does not see. Early balding may be diffuse in a pattern or non-patterned. The mapping will show just what it is.

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I Can’t Grow Body Hair — Will I Go Bald? – Hair Loss Information by Dr. William Rassman

Are men who don’t grow beard or body hair less likely to bald?

It is possible that this is just delayed growth of beard or body hair in a person in their late teens or very early 20s, and the beard and body hair may eventually grow in. If there are no autoimmune causes for the absence of this hair, then I would suspect that your genetic cards will play out normally. In other words, the lack of body/beard hard is unrelated to eventual scalp balding. There is a possibility of a reduced DHT level, which can be tested by your doctor. This test can measure if you make DHT or not, but I suspect you will find that you do.

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Hair Loss InformationStress Induced Hair Loss – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

I’m 42/F and in the past three months I have lost a good amount of hair and there is no balding in my family. I am on thyroid RX (5 yrs of Levothyroxine). Since then I have had my thyroid checked and it’s is normal. I have noticed my scalp does itch (not intensly) and the hair is falling out from the follicle (white tips are on the ends of each strand) and it comes out worse in the shower. Dr recommend to seek a dermatologist, which is my next step. I also take Estrogen (7 years), Topamax (6 mo), Maxalt (2 mo). I have alot of stress in my life besides.

Scared of going bald.

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There many reasons for hair loss, such as hypothyroidism, ezcema, alopecia areata, telogen effluvium, lupus, drugs, stress, crash diet and infections. I recommend that you have extensive blood work done to rule out many of these causes for your hair loss; a good endodrinologist or dermatologist should be able to do this. Alopecia Areata and Telogen Effluvium are causes of hair loss where biopsies may be indicated. You also need an extensive mapping of your head for miniaturization. Female patterned hair loss has very characteristic findings on mapping. You must realize that it is normal to lose up to 100 hairs per day.

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Hair Loss at 19 from Vitamin Imbalance? – Hair Loss Information by Dr. William Rassman

Hi, i first noticed that my hair was thinning when i was 17. Around the same time, i got this weird rash on the back of my head due to poorly cleaned clippers at a barber shop. Now i’m 19 and it’s really noticable that i am going bald. I can now see my scalp and my hair line has receded at least an inch and a half. I am very young. I believe it has to be a vitamin inbalance. Right now i’m taking ULTRA HAIR, which is filled with Biotin. I’m too scared to take rogaine or propecia, becuase i read that propecia can stop a man’s erection. What should i do? Who should i talk to? And do you think the rash has something to do with all this? The rash is still there. Thank you

If you review the Age category of this blog, you will learn that 17 year olds can get male pattern genetic hair loss. Assuming that you are male and receding, that is the most probable diagnosis. You need to get a diagnosis; you should have your head mapped out for miniaturization and attempt to get proper control of the hair loss with a drug like Propecia. If you have lost the first 1 1/2 inches of hair line, then you will go bald if you do not take a real proper action and get control of your hair loss. Playing with vitamins when you are losing your hair like you described, is like looking for fleas when a herd of elephants are chasing you. You should be running for you ‘life’ (and by that, I mean ‘hair’).

Propecia side effects have been covered on this site before: here, here, here, and here.

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Hair Problems from Bleaching – Hair Loss Information by Dr. William Rassman

I am a male and I did a bad job of bleaching my hair and it burned my scalp. When I used the bleach I used it only on the top of my head. The hair on the top of my head seems to be growing slower than the back and sides where I applied the bleach. I am only 18 so can the hair loss be due to the bleach?

It would be unusual for any long term damage from a single bleaching episode on your hair. Assuming that you wait a year or so, everything should resolve. Make sure that you do not have male genetic hair loss, by getting your head mapped out for minaturization. If you do have genetic hair loss, thinning could have been precipitated by the bleaching and proper medications may be in order (like Propecia). Get a good doctor to evaluate you.

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Hair Loss InformationLost All Body Hair After Infection – Hair Loss Information – Balding Blog

12 years ago I had a long term infection after an operation. Soon after that I began losing hair all over my body: pubic, anal, chest, under arms, even nasal hair. Beard and mustached nowhere near as thick as they used to be. Please help me; what could cause this?!?!?!

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The absence of body hair is alopecia universalis, an autoimmune problem which is most frequently genetic. Clearly your infection precipitated the condition but the genetics were hiding under the surface. You need to see a good dermatologist. Visit MedlinePlus and DermNet NZ for more information about alopecia.