Brief Answer:
Kindly elaborate certain important points.

Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXXXXX

Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.

I can understand your concern for hair fall. In view to help you best kindly elaborate about the problem of hair fall so that I can help you better.

It would be best if you can elaborate certain points about:

- Since exactly how long you are experiencing hair fall. Is it diffuse all over the scalp or at a particular site with a visible patch on scalp.

- How many hair fall everyday (if you can count then are these less than 100 per day or more than 100).

- Do you see hair on your pillow or bathroom floor.

- Any illness or emotional or stressful period in last 12 months to 2 years period.

- Your dietary status (Vegetarian/ non-vegetarian). Do you eat a healthy diet with fruits and green leafy vegetables with sprouts.

-Your occupation and daily routine and personal history (married/ unmarried and if married then pregnancy or feeding baby).

Hope to hear soon from your side.

Regards,

Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD (Dermatology)

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Brief Answer:
"Telogen effluvium":Few changes in routine & diet

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

Welcome again and thanks for posting your details.

After analyzing your complete query with diligence I can make out that you are suffering from the problem of "Telogen effluvium".

To tell you simply let me explain you some medical facts regarding this type of hair fall.

We have a hair cycle divided into three parts:

1. Growing phase (Anagen): more than 85 -90 % of hair are in this phase

2. Senescence phase(Catagen): around less than 10 % of hair are in this phase and is the phase before falling.

3. Falling phase (Telogen ): a very few percentage of hair.

We have almost 1 lac hair on our scalp and amongst them few percent of hair are in falling phase and then another 0.1% (around 50-100) of hair can fall everyday. At cetain times some more of the hair may come in falling phase. These extra of the hair which comes in senescence are actually visible as falling hair.

Let em reassure you that this type of hair fall is self limiting and remains for 3 months of period and then self subside. So do not worry and relax first!!! You need to do certain changes in your daily schedule to get better earlier.

For the betterment kindly follow the suggestions below:

1. Eat at least 3-4 different fruits saplings per day. Every fruit is good but you can make a combination of sour with sweet fruits such as oranges, papaya and other of seasonal fruits.

2. Pulses are good source of proteins. So everyday have a small bowel full of mixed pulses. Add green leafy vegetables additionally in the pulses which contains lot of iron and vitamins in it.

3. Sprouts are the best source of fibers, minerals especially iron, vitamins and proteins too. so add it at-least alternate day if you can not make in every-day's part of meal.

4. Over night soaked and peeled almonds will give you good vitamin E which is good for the hair growth. 5. Milk and milk products should be included in every-day's schedule.

6.Do light exercises. As you are working woman so reduce your stress as all these have bit impact on skin so also on scalp skin and hair.

If I were your dermatologist then would have prescribed you tablet containing Acetylcysteine, Calcium Pantothenate, Selenium, Zinc, Biotin, Copper as active ingredients. You can take these vitamins in the form of biotin, calicium pantothenate and other vitamin B complexes which are available at your local place (such as Xtraglow or H-vit forte or Essvit forte). Other than this an iron supplementation in diet and in tablet form is also helpful.

Hope these informations will help you. If you have further queries I will be happy to help.

"Wish you good health"
Regards,
Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD (Dermatology)

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