Wife Feels Pulling Sensation on Her Hair Each Morning

Hi, My wife and I recently moved her from Thailand, my wife is Thai. Since we have been here she complains that her scalp hurts every morning when she gets up – she describes it “as if somebody is pulling my hair”. The pain eases in intensity during the day to say 30%, but arrives at full intensity the next morning. Thai women seem to shred hair anyway, but this seems to be greater now though the loss of hair is not visually apparent.

Any ideas

She might be stressed from moving to a new country. Stress does strange things. Remember that the average person loses about 100 hairs per day so the hair you see in the shower or on the brush may be her normal daily loss. She will grow back about the same number each day and once it breaks through the skin it will grow at about 1/2 inch per month until it gets to her normal length. I don’t know what the pulling sensation might be otherwise.