Everyone looses hair every day-How much is too much?

[jzune]

If you haven't noticed any significant change in your hairline, how can you tell if your daily hair loss is too much? I've read that you lose anywhere between 50-100 hairs a day, but what is the most visibly noticeable sign you're loosing too much?

I have a compulsive habit to look at my hands after I run my hands through my hair in the shower to see if hair comes off (a hair or two at least always will), but what should I be looking for?

 

[Norsk]

DON'T COUNT HAIRS! Take good pictures with a digital camera regulary and compare. Here's a guide that might be useful (although it's really intended for people who have taken transplants) : http://www.hassonandwong.com/knowledge_ ... photos.php

 

[s.a.f]

DON'T COUNT HAIRS! Take good pictures with a digital camera regulary and compare. Here's a guide that might be useful (although it's really intended for people who have taken transplants) : http://www.hassonandwong.com/knowledge_ ... photos.php

Thank you Norsk! Got to be one of the most annoying things on this forum (People counting shed hairs). Guaranteed theres about 10 of these posts on here every week. :roll: Dont look at shed hairs look at whats on your head. :smack:

 

[htfc_2007]

theres nothing wrong with shed hairs, its just old hairs dying out, theres a problem if they dont grow back though

 

[Follically Challenged]

You have a problem with losing hairs if you run your hand through your hair and they fall out.

Back when I was losing my hair, that would happen. Like everytime I did it usually at least one hair from the hairline (where I was most sensitive to androgens). (For that reason I rarely did it.)

Now I run my hands through my hair because it feels good, and I do it a lot more vigorously. And a lot less hair (almost always 0 hairs) fall out despite the fact I do it a lot more.

Personally I think pulling, tugging on hair is good for it, because I would think it will help loosen up the sebum. But if you are always loosing hair when you do it, it's definitely depressing.

 

[jzune]

Yeesh, that's good to know. I only ever notice hair on my hands when I'm in the shower, but it doesn't always happen.

 

[Deaner]

More joke theories. If you run your hands through your hair and they fall out, this is normal. They have already become loose and free from the scalp, as hairs naturally should at many points during the day. So don't be afraid to run your hands through your hair. If you don't, most of these hairs will fall out over the course of the day naturally anyway. I'm starting to wonder if half you people are actually serious when you start spouting these joke theories. "Don't touch your hairline, you'll bald faster." Gimme a break.

 

[Deaner]

Oh, and on another note: did you stop to think that because you do it more often this may be the reason you're getting less hairs when you do it? If you do it once and all the loose hairs fall out at that point, then next time you do it nothing will happen. If the hairs aren't loose already, you're not gonna make them fall out every single time you run your hands through your hair.

 

[Follically Challenged]

Of course I thought of this....But it happens so infrequently now that I'm convinced my fallout has been reduced substansially.

They also don't fall out with white bulbs attached, either.

So, back then, I had a bunch of sebum surrounding the hair follicle, in my opinion. Since I was losing my hair, does it not stand to reason that no hair would have grown back, and that keeping the hair in the follicle longer prevented this sebum from entering the follicle to a certain degree, thus lessening it's exposure to DHT?

 

[ps1freak]

there is a difference

before i got on propecia, i was shedding hair like crazy. it was ABNORMAL to go from running the hand thru the hair and losing a few strands to just shakingmy head alil and having 5 or so come out everyhtime non stop

it got to the pt where i was too scared to even touch my head. when i showered b4 male pattern baldness hit, i use to rigourously shampoo. when i was starting to shed, i was scared to rub or touch the scalp too much.

after a year + on propecia, my hair is back to the way it use to be. it is strong again and does not fall out.

there IS a difference...

 

[pproctor]

Everyone loses about 50-150 hairs per day. This is not particularly associated with balding, which is primarily a matter of lack of proper replacement of hair that sheds in the normal hair cycle.

Peter H. Proctor, PhD,MD

 

[vipergts]

Bottom line is: you SHOULD worry if you have started to notice SIGNIFICANTLY higher numbers of hair being shed. A few years ago I would lose 0 hair in the shower or while brushing. Now in spite of my best efforts I shed over 200 per/day (rough estimate). Basically if finasteride or dutasteride don't slow down your rate of shedding, ur F'd! I envy the guys on this forum who worship Propecia for stopping their hairloss, I wish it had worked for me :-(

 

[Deaner]

I lose fairly large amounts of hair in the shower, and sometimes when I run my hands through my hair. Yet my hair thickness has gone through the roof, especially in the last 6-12 months. The top of my head is now equally as thick as the back of my head, yet I seem to be LOSING more when combing, showering, etc, than ever before. It doesn't freak me out at all. Until I start noticing thinning, I'm not gonna let the number that fall out worry me whatsoever.