Category: Hair Loss Causes

If a hair is pulled out prematurely but the hair follicle isn’t damaged (brushing, drying your hair too roughly with a towel), does the next hair begin growing ‘immediately’, or does it wait until the next hair cycle (which could be many months away)?

Also if a hair is pulled out prematurely is there a risk that the hole in the skin could heal / close up before the next hair has a chance to grow out, especially if the hair is miniaturized?

If you pull out a miniaturized hair, it might be permanent (depends upon where it is in its loss cycle). Generally, pulled hair (healthy hair that is) will return fairly quickly after it is pulled out and the pore that it exits from does not close up.

5 months ago I had my hair dyed back to my natural color brown. Since then, I have been shedding hair. I went on pre natal vitamins to see if it was a vitamin defeciency. But still no end. Could too much vitamins cause hair loss and should i stop taking them? I also tried biotin and noticed I would lose more hair? Also all my blood tests came back normal. After the hair dye I was diagnosed with sebrohheic dermatitis. But I don’t scratch my head, i just have dry scalp and little flakes. Could that be causing the shedding throught the day? Also when I applied a medicated shampoo to my scalp it irritated it so bad that I could’nt be around cleaning agents or strong perfumes, it made my scalp burn just smelling the fumes? What should I do? No dermatologist can come up with a solution for me? Should I just stop taking the prenatal vitamins or is the cause from the sebrohheic?

Very high doses of vitamin A could cause hair loss. Remember that this is for the very high doses and regular doses that are necessary for our daily maintenance should not affect the hair growth/loss. I don’t think your vitamins have been responsible for seborrheic dermatitis and I don’t think usual doses of vitamins in prenatal pills can cause hair loss.

Inflammation of skin or dermatitis can cause hair loss if you scratch it. It can also accelerate the hair loss due to other causes such as androgenetic alopecia with vigorous brushing.

I spent the last week in a really poor city in China and realized that very few people were suffering from hairloss. At first I thought – this can’t be the case, maybe I was just applying some sort of subconscious filter? Or maybe the area I was in only consisted of younger people? But after a week there, I came to the conclusion that there simply weren’t that many bald people in this city. It was very confusing, I really have no answer for this, and I don’t even know what question I’m trying to ask you…I guess if anything, have you come across something like this before?

Male pattern hair loss has a strong genetic influence, but we have never compared race by city. From the literature I have read, there is no suggestion that the people of China have less balding than Europeans. One Chinese friend of mine has hair like former US President Bill Clinton in hairline shape and location. The hair is very wavy, not straight like many Asians and he says in his home town in China, this is the way all of the people there look. I guess it is possible to find a population of people with isolated gene pools, especially in geographically protected or isolate areas where inherently the population does not carry a specific gene for baldness. Someone should study it.

Hi I am 20 year old Caucasian male and I have, I think, a normal hairline. Certainly my hair above my temples is not receding nor is there any recession at the back. My hair seems to be growing normally and healthily.

However, a number of odd things have been happening. I’ve noticed mostly in the middle of my hairline at the very very front there are some hairs which are a lot shorter than the rest of the hair behind them – maybe 3/4 of the length of the normal hair which is about 3 or 4 inches – though they do not look weak. Equally the hair (in the same areas), maybe a centimeter in or so is thinner than all the rest of the hair though this is only at the front and does does not seem to be true above the temples. Finally in the the middle of the front, I seem to have developed a small lock of hair that is independent from all the rest of the hair in so far as it won’t be tamed at all – this was never the case – though it may simply have grown oddly as I have not cut my hair since the summer when I shaved off my dreadlocks. Can you explain any of this to me?

What you are looking at is not easy for me to understand without seeing what you’re talking about. At the age of 20, you might be developing elements of the maturing hairline. You should get your hair mapped out for miniaturization and see if there is early genetic balding occurring, which might explain some of your problems.