hi. i am 14 year old (male) and i am having a lot of white hairs. My cousin had experience this when she was in teen age but later her hairs turn black again when she grown up. Is it possibility that my hairs will turn black when i grown up?
I have not heard of black hairs turning white and then back to black. White hair in very young people does occur, although it is not common.
2007-06-22 08:31:412007-06-22 08:31:4514 Year Old With White Hairs
First of all I, among many other really appreciate your work in helping people out with hair loss questions.
My condition, starting at 18 (two years ago) began abruptly with hair falling out at all parts of the scalp. This includes the “donor area”, sideburns, the top, the crown, the sides…everything. I researched and thought it may have been telogen effluvium but it never stopped which led me to the unfortunate conclusion that i was losing ALL of my hair. Two years later it is still going strong with all parts of my scalp significantly thinned but no receding hair line at all. This past year alone I have been having constant, very serious dandruff ( to the point where I don’t even understand how my skin cells keep up with all the skin shedding) and toward my hairline it almost looks like a rash where the dandruff begins. I feel like either the dandruff is causing hair loss or the hair loss is causing dandruff.
Anyway, I am just wondering if you have any knowledge of this and if there is any sort of treatment just to at least give me some extra tie with my hair since I’m am not even 21 yet! My mother’s father lost all of his hair by 30 but since much time has passed there must be some sort of working treatment other than minoxidil and propecia. I am also 100% Italian if that helps at all. Any thoughts at all will be extremely helpful since I am too scared to tell my parents or anyone because I am so young!
Thank you
You need to see a good doctor. If you are losing hair in the donor area and the sides (as well as elsewhere on your head), you might have diffuse unpatterned alopecia (DUPA)… or there could be something else entirely (allergy? fungus?). It would be foolish to treat yourself and second guess what is going in.
You’re 20 years old, but you’re never too old to lean on your family for support if you need it. I’d start with a doctor to help determine what is causing your hair loss.
Do you think that it is safe taking finasteride and minoxidil at my age? My result are excellent.
Speak with your doctor, as I don’t give direct advice over blogs. I suspect that it will be okay. These topicals go systemic, so maybe you would be better off sticking with the oral forms of these medications so that you know exactly what your system is getting.
Dr.Rassman
Although I started noticing small vellus hairs growing at my hairline when I started taking minoxidil. I thought everything was working out perfectly, but then I also started noticing hair loss a couple months after I started taking minoxidil. Is this normal, I thought most of the shedding would happen earlier on like within the first month not after that?
I’m surprised you saw hairline regrowth from using minoxidil. There are some reports that the short term use of minoxidil will cause shedding of hair and that this is a reversible process once you get out 3 months from the time you started it. If you are not seeing this, go to a specialist on this.
If you presently have gynecomastia, taking Finasteride will not raise your risk of making it worse more than others your age who do not have gynecomastia. You should see your doctor to find out what you can do about your problem.
What was the plan you had with the surgeon? Did you and he discuss leaving the middle free of grafts? Did you have hair in the middle that is not showing here because of the shave? If you were uniformly bald, I would agree that this is not a good plan. You have a finite amount of donor hair so first I want to know what is your total donor supply estimate and how much of it was use for this surgery? That would allow me to determine what could be done in the future in another hair transplant session. Do you have a Personalized Master Plan with your doctor to address now and future issues of balding? This is critical, of course.
2020-03-06 03:47:492020-03-10 06:42:52I’m worried because the doctor missed half of my scalp (photo)
I performed this surgery on this man with 1800 grafts. Note the picture on the left which is one day after the surgery. Because he washed his hair using our washing technique, he formed no scabs (crusts) on the wounds after the surgery. Note also in the after pictures, that the center forelock which was not transplanted looks like the transplanted corner hairline does with respect to density or fullness
2021-09-10 01:07:022021-09-12 06:47:551800 Grafts before and after
Dear Dr. Rassman,
A few months ago I visited you and you mentioned you were right on the edge of creating an improved tool for Follicular Unit Extraction procedures.Are we there yet?
There have been recent improvements in technology related to the tool used in the FUE process and I personally believe there is room for even more improvements. There are still some patients who do not make good candidates for FUE and if it is possible to get around whatever the limitations are that we are experiencing with hopefully better instruments. As the instruments improve, then the FUE technique may become more common place. Unfortunately, it is now a limited offering by a very select few physicians who have invested the time and put their skills to the test to become good at it. It is the curse of a perfectionist to always try to improve from the status quo, but clearly as some people are still not candidates for FUE, the present has another surgical option that is already good, reliable and replicable (the Follicular Unit Transplant with strip harvesting). What is needed for FUE is an instrument that works in other than God’s hands, like the mortal surgeon I am, trying 100% of the time to be better.
Snippet from the article:
Dr. Paul Offit doesn’t take any vitamins. In fact, while you might think that vitamins are great in any quantity, Offit urges you to take a step back and think before swallowing the equivalent of eight cantaloupes in a single dose.
“I think that alternative medicine is often given a free pass,” he told CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. “I think we should hold alternative medicine to the same standard that we hold conventional medicine. It lives under this sort of untouchable halo. I think we should be a little more skeptical.”
Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is no stranger to controversy — previously he has taken on the anti-vaccine movement. His book “Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine,” came out Tuesday.
Read the rest — Vitamins: Too much of a not-so-good thing?
Vitamins and supplements are a multi-billion dollar industry, and this doctor warns that many of us are taking them in excess, ignoring or perhaps not knowing the possible health risks they may pose. These supplements are unregulated by the FDA, and as we see with the countless bogus herbal “cures” for hair loss, most of what people are buying into is marketing hype.
