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Telogen effluvium - losing hair from stress

One of the reasons for losing hairand suffering from hair loss is if you have experienced a psychological or physical trauma. This can cause you to lose hair and suffer from hair loss several months after the event. The medical name for the traumatic stress that causes hair loss is telogen effluvium.

The body equates telogenic effluvium with a physical or psychological trauma. When something makes its mark inside the body, it can react by shutting down the production of hair and putting the hair follicles into sleep mode. The trauma causes the growth phases of the hair to change as a defence mechanism.

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Hair loss occurs several months after

Ordinary stress is not normally dangerous provided you are not burnt out or have symptoms of exhaustion. Extreme stress over a long period of time is classified as a trauma to the body.

Extreme stress can be:

  • Childbirth
  • Severe diseases
  • Severe infections
  • Operation
  • Grief
  • Depression
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Hair loss occurs several months after

When the body puts the hair follicles into rest phase after extreme stress, the hairs still remain on the head. So you don’t lose your hair immediately after the event, which makes it easy to mistake telogen effluvium for some other problem, such as a vitamin deficiency. The hair follicles that are put into dormancy die up to 6 months after the trauma and then hair loss occurs.

Usually you lose about 200 hairs in a day. When the body is subjected to this type of traumatic physical and mental stress, many more hairs can be lost in a very short time and there is a noticeable difference.

Eventually, the hair returns to its normal growth phase after it has fallen off. The older you get, the longer it can take for your hair to grow back. The process can be accelerated with the help of PRP.

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