HAIR LOSS – INTRODUCTION

A woman’s crowning glory may cause her anxiety if she runs her comb through it and it all seems to come out.

The number of hairs we have on our bodies is determined before we are born. The hair follicles form early in foetal life and all areas of the body, except the colored portion of the lips, the palms and soles are covered with fine vellus hairs. We each have about five million.

The scalp, eyebrows, under the arms, the pubic areas, and the adult male face have coarser, more pigmented hair called terminal hair.

The hair on our head goes through a cyclical growth pattern over a period which may vary from a few months to three years. It then enters a resting phase while a new hair is developing in the follicle below.

This resting hair may be dislodged by minor trauma, such as brushing or combing, pushed out by the growing hair underneath.

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