Stress Related Hair Loss Strikes Women The Most Options

[Bill]

Sarah Palin's hair was thinning as a result of extreme stress

July 2009

The New York Times recently reported that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's hair was thinning as a result of extreme stress. If so, doctors say, she's not the only one.


Dermatologists say that although life's normal ups and downs aren't enough to precipitate it, women can lose up to 50% of their hair after an unusually stressful event.

Dr. Rebecca Euwer, a Dallas dermatologist, said that some of the more common causes are childbirth, surgery or a death in the family. "When someone comes in and says they're losing their hair, you ask, 'Well, what happened about three months ago?' " Euwer said.


This type of hair loss can occur both in men and women. But most of the known cases are reported by women.
Euwer said that hair goes through three phases: growing, resting and falling out.


About 90% of hair is in the growing phase. Most of the remaining hair is in the resting phase, where it remains for about three months. When people suffer physical or psychological trauma, it shocks the hair follicles into a resting phase.


People do not notice the effects until three months later, when it begins to fall out.


"About 1% of your hair is falling out, so it's normal to lose about 100 hairs a day," she said. But when you begin to notice more hair on your pillow or in your shower drain, it's time to go to the doctor, she said.

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[HairHope]

Do people think that stress really affects men in the same way? I am going through an unwanted divorce and I have been so upset and stressed these past 18 months. I have certainly lost more hair in that time.

I hope that as things settle down and I accept my new situation, things might improve but there could be two things going on here 1) ageing and 2) stress. Trouble is, its getting to the stage where I need to do something about it because it's knocking my confidence.

Best Wishes,

HairHope.

Sarah Palin's hair was thinning as a result of extreme stress

July 2009

The New York Times recently reported that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's hair was thinning as a result of extreme stress. If so, doctors say, she's not the only one.


Dermatologists say that although life's normal ups and downs aren't enough to precipitate it, women can lose up to 50% of their hair after an unusually stressful event.

Dr. Rebecca Euwer, a Dallas dermatologist, said that some of the more common causes are childbirth, surgery or a death in the family. "When someone comes in and says they're losing their hair, you ask, 'Well, what happened about three months ago?' " Euwer said.


This type of hair loss can occur both in men and women. But most of the known cases are reported by women.
Euwer said that hair goes through three phases: growing, resting and falling out.


About 90% of hair is in the growing phase. Most of the remaining hair is in the resting phase, where it remains for about three months. When people suffer physical or psychological trauma, it shocks the hair follicles into a resting phase.


People do not notice the effects until three months later, when it begins to fall out.


"About 1% of your hair is falling out, so it's normal to lose about 100 hairs a day," she said. But when you begin to notice more hair on your pillow or in your shower drain, it's time to go to the doctor, she said.

Full hair loss article

[Pondle]

The hair cycle means that it's perfectly normal to lose quite a lot of hairs per day. However, new hairs grow from the same follicles.

http://www.pgbeautygroomingscience.com/the...owth-cycle.html

Hair that's lost because of stress or immune problems should grow back. Permanent loss is usually indicative of male pattern baldness (androgenic alopecia), the extremely common hereditary condition that's first noticeable in thinning or recession at the crown and temples. Have any male relatives also experienced hair loss? If so, you are more than likely genetically pre-disposed to male pattern baldness.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Hair-loss/Pag...troduction.aspx