oily hair

[new guy]

ive noticed my hair tends to get exceptionally oily, once i come home from work my hair looks grease pan. I shower every morning but it gets oily very quickly. im assuming oily hair has played an important role from my thining hair.. any ideas why this problem is occuring?????

 

[Britannia]

The build up of sebum on the scalp can make your hair loss worse. What shampoo do you use? Nizoral and T/gel are very good.

 

[Bryan]

ive noticed my hair tends to get exceptionally oily, once i come home from work my hair looks grease pan. I shower every morning but it gets oily very quickly. im assuming oily hair has played an important role from my thining hair.. any ideas why this problem is occuring?????

Sure. You're what Kligman calls a "sebaceous athlete". In other words, you have big, fat, healthy sebaceous glands in your scalp which happily produce sebum all day and all night long! :wink:

What you could try doing is use Nizoral and/or T-Gel shampoos, both of which have some evidence showing that they tend to reduce sebum production. Alternating them might be better than using either one alone.

BTW, I'm not really sure to what extent (if any) that overactive sebaceous glands make balding worse. It may only be an association, as opposed to cause-and-effect.

Bryan

 

[Old Baldy]

ive noticed my hair tends to get exceptionally oily, once i come home from work my hair looks grease pan. I shower every morning but it gets oily very quickly. im assuming oily hair has played an important role from my thining hair.. any ideas why this problem is occuring?????

Sure. You're what Kligman calls a "sebaceous athlete". In other words, you have big, fat, healthy sebaceous glands in your scalp which happily produce sebum all day and all night long! :wink:

What you could try doing is use Nizoral and/or T-Gel shampoos, both of which have some evidence showing that they tend to reduce sebum production. Alternating them might be better than using either one alone.

BTW, I'm not really sure to what extent (if any) that overactive sebaceous glands make balding worse. It may only be an association, as opposed to cause-and-effect.

Bryan

It's a HATEFUL association!! Who knows, maybe there is a little effect. Either way I HATE those swelled-up, fat sebaceous glands!! Shrink those fat ######s! spironolactone., spironolactone., spironolactone.!!!!

Not to mention that I FINALLY got on the bandwagon and started using Retin-A and Azelaic Acid to remove that RUBBERIZED CALLUS on the top of my head!

Sorry, I lost it again.