If you notice more hair on your pillow or comb, you are often worried that it is “hair loss”.
This may just be more hair falling out than usual, but “hair loss” isn’t that simple.
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Usually ‘hair loss’ stops on its own
In fact, hair fall is a physiological phenomenon. A normal person will lose about 50 to 100 hairs every day, and then a corresponding amount of new hair will be replenished to keep the total amount of hair basically unchanged.
Severe hair loss occurs when more than this amount of hair falls out over a period of time and the new hair is not enough to fill the vacancies, which is medically called “severe hair loss” For “telogen effluvium”.
Patients with telogen effluvium typically experience hair growth back to its original level after a period of time.
The most common causes of telogen effluvium are:
I lost weight too quickly
Pregnancy
Sudden stress (eg, sick relative, divorce, job loss, etc.)
High fever (especially after high fever subsides)
Rehabilitation after surgery or serious illness
Discontinue birth control pills
Some “hair loss” doesn’t stop automatically
A condition that causes a lot of hair loss and cannot be regenerated for some reason, and the total amount of hair continues to decrease, can be called “hair loss”, which is medically named “growth” period hair loss”.
It’s important to note that anagen hair loss can eventually result in the patient’s hair falling out completely and failing to grow back.
The most common causes of anagen hair loss include:
genetic factors
Immune system overreaction
Certain medicines and therapies
Harmful hair care products
Excessive hair pulling
If you’re worried or anxious about losing a lot of hair, don’t suffer in silence, it will make the hair loss worse if you suffer alone.
Please seek help from a dermatologist in a timely manner, so that they can determine whether it is “hair loss” or “hair loss.” In fact, many types of hair loss can be improved with treatment, and the sooner treatment is started, the better.
In order to help everyone better understand the problem of hair loss, this Friday, Dr. Lilac invited Wang Lu, Deputy Chief Physician of Dermatology Department of Sichuan Maternal and Child Health Hospital to chat with you. Content related to ‘hair loss’.