I recently heard from someone who had had excessive hair loss for the past few months. She asked, in part, “Why does my hair loss and hair loss vary so much from day to day? One day, I may lose about 250 hairs, but the next day, I might only lose 50. These variations make my hopes rise.” increase”. the day i deleted less, things are looking up. But sure enough, a couple of days later, the detachment resumed. Why does this happen? Does it mean that it was improving but something stopped the improvement? Is it normal to have these kinds of fluctuations? How do I know how much hair I’m really losing and if it’s too much?” I’ll try to answer these questions in the next article.
It is normal for hair loss to vary from day to day, but you have to be careful with the averages: It’s not uncommon to lose a lot of hair one day and much less the next. There are many variables that affect this. You will usually notice more shedding and shedding on the day you wash or shampoo your hair. And you typically notice less hair loss on days you skip washing. That’s because manipulating hair follicles can pull out hairs that were already in the resting or shedding phase.
So handling your hair and taking care of it may seem like it makes it fall out more, but the hair that does come out would fall out at some point in the near future anyway. Seeing more hair these days doesn’t mean you should stop or cut back on your hair or scalp care.
Knowing that these fluctuations are normal, how do you know how much hair you’re really losing and if your hair loss is a concern? Usually you can only look at your averages. In the scenario above, this person lost around 300 hairs over the course of two days. The average of this would be 150 hairs per day, which is well above the supposedly “normal” 100 hairs falling out per day. I am not suggesting that you count your hairs every day to get an accurate average. In fact, I think this does you more harm than good because it creates stress that can make your hair loss worse. But once you’ve done an initial count, you should be able to look at your loss over the next few days so you know where you are.
Is my hair loss regimen or treatment causing these variations in hair loss?: People often ask me if it’s logical to blame their regimen when they notice big fluctuations in hair loss. An example would be someone trying a new topical or hair loss treatment one day and then noticing a big shed the next day. That person might blame the new regime and want to leave it. The problem is that it is almost impossible to be able to point out a causal relationship between the two in such a short time.
The hair takes a while to change phases and then falls out. This process does not happen overnight. Unless you have an immediate inflammatory or allergic reaction to a regimen product, the hair you see coming out afterward is unlikely to be the direct result. Because most of the time, when you see a hair fall out or fall out, that same hair has been in the resting phase for much longer than a day.
The bottom line is that even with hair loss conditions like TE, AGA, or AA, it’s not uncommon to see big changes and variations in the amount of hair you lose each day. And there is not always a concrete reason for this. Sometimes it just depends on where your hair is in the hair loss process or its life cycle. And sometimes the hair has been recently manipulated or is negatively affected by the hair loss condition, so high and more noticeable loss is seen on selected days.
