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What Causes Hair Loss While Experiencing Severe Stress?

Posted on Mon, 28 Nov 2016

Question: I am 18, don't take any medications and am not allergic to anything. The past month, my hair has been falling out pretty excessively. It has never fallen out in this many strands before. Whether i take a shower or i just comb my hair without any necessary pulling it just seems to willingly fall out. I do stress out a lot, recently I've been fine, but my hair falling out is causing stress so it isn't helping. I have no idea whats going on. My hair has started to get thinner and its making me nervous.

Answered by Dr. Asmeet Kaur Sawhney (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Rule out causes of hair fall and start treatment accordingly

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for being at Health Care Magic,

There are many causes of hair fall and treatment depends on the cause.
The most common causes are anemia, thyroid disorders, past history of fevers like typhoid, dengue and malaria, hormonal disturbances, accidents, trauma, surgery and chronic diseases.
I would recommend you to get your haemoglobin, serum ferritin levels and thyroid function tests done to rule out anemia and thyroid abnormalities.

Meanwhile in cases of hair fall I recommend my patients to take hair supplements like tablet follihair or tablet keraglo XXXXXXX once daily for 3 months along with application of anti hair fall serum like anaboom antihair fall serum twice daily for 3 months.

This should help in resolving your problem.

Regards
Dr Asmeet

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T