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Hair Loss happens to be a very common problem and it may be due to various reasons ranging from hereditary factors to medicinal side effects. But very few of us are acquainted with the fact that hair loss could be due to stressful situations in life. And in fact a good number of folks are experiencing hair loss because of living under constant stress but are ignorant of this reality. Instead of managing their stress well they opt for hair loss treatment options that hardly prove effective.
You must know that your hair are true indicator of your health condition. People who are healthy physically as well as mentally, hardly suffer from hair loss except for hereditary reasons. Their hair remain healthy with ever present shine and moisture. However people with abnormal health condition and specifically people with anxiety and distress don’t possess shiny and healthy hair. Human hair gradually become dry and dull and later on start falling.
Stress induced hair fall is medically known as Telogen Effluvium. Once you are grappled with an unexpected stress or a kind of shock, you are prone to loose your hair rapidly. Because in such conditions, hair’s capability of regeneration is nullified and it may take an year for follicles to resume their task of producing hairs.
Apart from this, diseases can make you depressed to cause hair loss. So you are needed to identify all possible reasons that push you towards stress and anxiety. Once you identify reasons you should try to make yourself strong enough to keep your calm intact even while being in those conditions.
Best way to combat this type of hair loss is to opt for relaxation techniques that bring mental peace and dissociate yourself from stress prevailing in your life. Various relaxation exercises and meditation could help you in your quest to prevent baldness resulting from hair loss.
Stress may cast some indirect repercussions on hair. While being in a stressful condition people normally lose their appetite and develop carelessness towards hair that adversely affects hair, causing hair fall. Poor diet would deprive hair from essential nutrients and vitamins that would worsen its condition marking a beginning of hair loss.
When you are in stress you develop your own idiosyncratic style of hair fiddling. This fiddling also contributes to your hair loss.
So, all you folks struggling to revive hair on your scalp should check yourself against prevalence of stress and anxiety in your life. A little awareness would save you from hair loss or baldness.
Ashish Jain
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10 Responses to “Causes Of Hair Loss: Stress Causes Hair Loss”
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is it genetic or stress that causes hair loss?
im a regular 18 yr old kid (turning 19 in 2 weeks) and im experiencing hair loss last 8 months. Everyone on my dads side all lost their hair when they got older but i thought the hair issue came from the moms side? maybe i stressed out a little bit cuz of school and the family issue. anything i can do to prevent this?
my moms side is normal, no one loses their hair
definitely genetic.
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def. genetics.
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Well, both genetics and stress can cause hair loss, but there are some other things that could as well. For example, hormone levels. Hormones such as TSH and fT4. These hormones go back and forth between your thyroid gland and the pituitary gland in your brain. When one or both of these hormones are out of balance, then a one of the symptoms you will have is hair loss, along with others such as fatigue and having and hard time waking up. It’s pretty common. But for you, I would bet it is probably genetic based or stress based. It’s true that hair loss seems to come from your mom’s side for the most part, but it could also come from your dad’s side.
To prevent it, I guess you could try the rogain stuff. I have a good friend who decided to just sport the bicked look, and it works well! Good luck with it, either way!
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Medical Assistant, pre med
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/tools/symptom/501.html
http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/symptoms/hairloss.html
well its genetics no doubt about it
the same thing happen to my freind but when he went into more detail about asking his family
he realized it runs in his family
many of his uncles and cuzin and facing the same issue
he also thought before that it was all the stress he was dealing with due to his family and social problems thats was cousing it.
so dont fuss about it and if yuh want to have your hair grow back again you can get a regrowth laser treatment which really works
my freind has gone to 2 treatments and his almost back to the way his hair was.
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my close freind went through the same thing.
Permanent hair loss is the result of genetic and hormonal factors. Hereditary baldness is the most common form. In fact, it is so common that many people think it is a normal part of the ageing process
Some causes of hair loss include:
1.Heredity – the effects of testosterone, the male sex hormone
2.Hormonal changes – such as thyroid disease, childbirth or use of the birth control pill
3.Alopecia areata – an autoimmune disorder
4.Medications – such as cancer chemotherapy or corticosteroids
5.Nervous habits – such as continual hair pulling or scalp rubbing
6.Rough handling – brushing too vigorously, tight rolling of hair curlers, over bleaching or the use of harsh dyes and chemicals
7.Burns or injuries
8.Tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp)
9.Long-term illness, major surgery and high fever – may cause temporary hair loss.
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Better Health Channel
There are a lot of causes of hair loss, and stress is one of them. If you’re losing hair due to a stressful event, the hair loss should be temporary.
There are a few genetic causes of hair loss (that I know of). The one you’re thinking of (patterned balding) is passed through your mother (you were right). You’ll want to look at your mother’s father to see if you may have any inheritance there.
There is also a disease known as alopecia that causes partial or total hair loss. This is an auto-immune disorder, and is genetic. Your immune system will start attacking your hair folicles, which can be triggered by stress. If you have a family history of auto-immune disorders (any auto-immune disorder, it doesn’t have to be alopecia) I’d visit a doctor.
Here’s a website that lists causes of hair loss in both men and women:
http://www.hairlosshelp.com/html/hairloss1.cfm
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I was experiencing hair loss @ age 24 and my dad has a full head of hair i was like WTF? but they say your moms dad so check him, eventually my grandfather on my moms was completely bald, and over the years my hair was thinning. I ended up cutting my hair little by little trying to conceal my thiness. sad cause i even tried to grow it long and ended up doing a couple of COMB OVERS yucky, but eventually i started just cutting it short all the way down to a # 1 guard, and people said it looked much better, one day i wanted a change and i completely bict my head, so right now im bald its a whole new look and i love it, old friends don’t even recognize me you should try it one day if it ever comes down to it, and if you don’t want to you can always just cut it short to where your most comfortable. it’ll be fine don’t stress about it. PS on the record I loved my hair and miss it I have high school pictures of me combing it like elvis lol.
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it could be genetics…stress though can also cause it also your thyroid.
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It can be both or either.
See your doc, it could be a symptom of something else, too…
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