Counting Falling Hairs
Hello, Im a 20 year old male who has short but thick curly hair. Over the past few weeks i’ve started losing alot more hair than usual. I usually wash my hair twice a week and see maybe 20-25 hairs in the bath. Now im seeing between 70 and 200- depending how often i wash it. If I run through my hair with my hands over a basin i will see anything from 30-150 hairs fall out. And i notice that almost every hair has a white tip at the end which im guessing is the root? Its not dandruff. Does this mean that the hair won’t grow back or does the root always come out with the hair? I’ve tried changing my diet but alot of hair still comes out. Im not on any medication , should i be worried about this? I’d be grateful for any advice. Thank you.
Bring in the hairs and have a good doctor analyze it and perform a pull test for the hair that is on your head. Getting your hair mapped out for miniaturization is part of the diagnostic test that should be performed as well. Sometimes, people go through a shedding phase. I recommend that you monitor your hair loss more carefully and put all of them in the bag to be calculated more accurately. Losing more than 150 hairs per day is high if that is actually the number of hairs you are losing. You have to consider that your hair maybe broken into pieces which may falsely increase the number of the hairs you are losing.
Look at the hairs in the picture. Estimating them is like counting marbles in a jar. They often seem more than they are, or is it the other way? I’m confused! So you should be!
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