Woman Started Losing Hair After Pregnancy

I too have hair thinning issues. I am 25 years old female, and this hair loss/itchy scalp began not too long after the birth of my son. At first I attributed it to post partum pair loss, but when it continued after 2 years, it became worrysome.

My hair seems to be constantly be falling out, and regrowing. I have a lot of frizzy baby hairs. My scalp is itchy, and when I scratch, in the general area I find like a granule of skin cells. It feels like the white bit at the base of a hair, only a little larger and dryer. Most of the hair that falls out also has these at the base of the hair. This is driving me crazy, PLEASE help me figure out what this is. I’ve had blood work and my thyroid is okay, and I am not a diabetic.

Thank you.

Female genetic hair loss can be triggered by pregnancy. There are unique patterns of miniaturization is associated with the genetic process (even in females) and this pattern is easily seen with good densitometry studies mapping out the head for miniaturization. You should get this process done and if you have a genetic process then, at the least, you will know what it is that is causing your problem. For those who lose hair with pregnancy, most will reverse within a couple of years.