Some times during my day I find some hairs that are very fine and thin, they are about 4 cm. in a usual shed of 80-100 hairs, I say about 7 of them are these very fine hairs. Is this something that is normal?
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Answer: Understanding Hair loss and hair loss treatment options: hair transplant, prp and progesterone
My go to treatment regimen for alopecia areata is steroid injections directly into the area of loss, as well as minoxidil applied topically AND laser therapy.
If one has a rapid cycling TE, hairs are shed in as soon as 6 months (maybe less). They don't get a chance to grow long and fatten up. We often see this in the temples in patients with TE but it can occur throughout the scalp. Patients with TE typicall have hairs more than 3 cm (and usually more...
Early in the process, they grow just like normal hair that is not miniaturized. Miniaturized hairs will frequently hang in a long time, especially when they are at the end of their life. By hanging in I am not suggesting that at the end of their life that they are still growing, they just don't...
