QuoteReplyTopic: 16 female losing/thinning hair Posted: January 12 2005 at 8:10pm
I'm 16 and i've been experiencing hairloss for about 2 yrs. I went to the doctor and got tested for a lot of things but he said i was healthy. My hair is thinner and i seem to have a lot of short little broken hair. I have little bald spots in the front near my forehead and the bald spots are little bit pink. Can anyone tell me what might be happening? and what the bald spots with pink spots might mean? or is it just from the sun. I also seem to have little brown spots on my head. i don't think its ringworm since i dont have bald spots near the brown spots.
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I haven't used any chemicals in my hair at all. i used to use a brush to pull my hair into a pony tail a lot, but i've stopped using that for awhile now. i did use staighters but i've stopped using anything to make my hair situation worse. i also noticed my hair has thinned out like crazy.
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This may sound retarded, but try a dermatologist, he may have more answers. My sister lost a lot of hair after a bad bleach job and she got a prescription for a herbal medication from a dermatologist. Or, try a herbalist.
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The myriad hairs growing on the human body are products of subcutaneous mico-organs called hair follicles. Regardless of the length and thickness of the shaft, each individual hair grows to a single hair follicle. The size of the hair follicle determines fhe thickness and relative length of the hair shaft: long, coarse terminal hairs are produced from large terminal follicles and short, fine hairs from small vellus follicles. Under healthy conditions the normal pattern of body hair growth is generally well maintained topographically by the characteristically dis- tributed terminal and vellus follicles. However, abnormal conditions, such as hormonal disorders, inflammations, toxic exposures, and stress, that cause abnormal changes of the hair follicles readily induce either gradual thinning or rapid loss of hairs in the body. The loss of scalp hair is a most conspicuous phenomenon; it may appear as a complete loss of the hair shaft in patchy and wide scalp regions, a reduced density of terminal hair, or a replace ment of terminal hairs with vellus hairs. A complete loss of scalp hair is usually caused by severe dystrophic or degenerative changes of hair follicles due to toxic or inflammatory processes resulting in alopecia areata, alopecia totalis, or alopecia universalis. Reduced density of the terminal hairs (thinning) in the vertex or frontal edge of the scalp is a common feature of female alopecia. The thinning of scalp hairs concomitant with a replacement by vellus hairs is typical of male pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia). Unlike complete hair loss caused by hair follicle damage, female alopecia and male pattern baldness usually lack either degenerative changes of the hair follicles per so or abnormalities of the surrounding tissues. However, dystrophic hair follicles are frequently found in the long-standing, advanced bald scalp, particu larly in aged subjects. The thinning of hair in both female and male common baldness is known to result from a diminution of the size of hair follicles. The magnitude of this follicular diminution is much greater in male than in female alopecia.
Hi
I'm also suffering from hair loss :( Been losing it since 14 or so (until now), 24. Argh. Extremely depressing.
Before my hair started falling out, my hair started becoming
very dry (lotsa 'curly fries' around), looking extremely messy, and
then it just started falling out ... Right now my hair looks so thin.
And now when I wash my hair, I noticed, if I scratch my scalp, I
get white stuff under my finger nails. It builds up over the days, so
if I haven't washed it for 3 days or so, I'll get lotsa white stuff
under my nails if I scratch.
Is that normal? I've been so 'used' to all this .. and having lotsa hair falling out, that it seems so ... normal now.
:(
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Bleh, the same thing happens to me. I get white stuff, and scalp itch. . . tried using Neutrogena T-gel for it before, and sometimes Tea Tree Oil, and they help a little, but nothing works totally. I lose too much hair, too, which is a problem, since my hair was really fine to begin with :-( . The places that itch most are where I'm thinnest, which makes me wonder if there's some correlation. If only there were some way to make the itching and flaking stop long enough to see if the fallout would stop at the same time. . .
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