washing hair too much?

[zroca]

I was just wondering can washing your hair to much cause hair loss? I see bums with some of the thickest hair, they don't wash their hair, or those jamacians with dread locks or pretty much anybody with dread locks, they don't wash their hair and their sh*t is THICK or even those black people with brades, they don't wash their hair to often and their hair is thick.

I know not washing your hair would be disgusting, but if washing your hair too much causes hair loss would it be better to just wash your hair every other day, once every week? This is just a theory and I have no idea if its true or not, but I do know that I've been washing my hair everyday for the last 19 years, could it have played a role in my hair loss?
Thanks
Zroca

 

[Wezz]

washing hair have nothing to do with hairloss, those bums you said dont have hairloss problems. If you are losing your hair and you dont wash your hair and use decent shampoos, you will lose the hair you have much quicker because the other people u talked about have strong hair and dont fallout even if they dont wash, so you can call them "lucky bums"

 

[Kramer3]

Washing your hair every second day certaintly won't help but I dont know if it would hurt either. The problem I have with washing my hair every two days is that its almost impossible to keep my scalp healthy and I hate applying minoxidil to seemingly "dirty" hair.

 

[Kramer3]

Washing your hair every second day certaintly won't help but I dont know if it would hurt either. The problem I have with washing my hair every two days is that its almost impossible to keep my scalp healthy and I hate applying minoxidil to seemingly "dirty" hair.

 

[pharoh]

I wash my hair everyday, in fact I reguarly wash my hair twice a day due to the fact I lift weights several times a week and do martial arts up to 4 nights a week and so I get pretty sweaty.

To be honest any hair that is going to fall out from washing it will fall out anyway - unless of course the chemicals in the shampoo make hair fall out but I doubt that very much since it would defeat the object of using shampoo to keep hair healthy

 

[Slartibartfast]

Before I realized I had male pattern baldness I used to wash my hair only every 3 - 4 days, since starting treatment in Sep. 01 I've washed my hair almost every day to help maintain a healthy scalp. My hair is improving quite nicely at the moment so I can't see that frequent shampooing is detrimental to hair quality - though I would think an unhealthy scalp could be.

 

[hopewas]

if you notice , if you wash your hair only every couple of days..a shitload of hair falls off rather than the few that sheds if you wash it every day. i wash my hair 6 days a week. i have to using minoxidil

 

[artvandaley]

I think you should only shampoo your hair once a day, no more than that. At least that's what I've heard.