Men’s Hair Loss: How to Identify Your Type of Hair Loss (Alopecia) - Page 2

2. More rare: temporary, non-hereditary hair loss

Potential triggering factors

• Beginning of the season : autumn and spring
• Major surgery
• Prolonged general anaesthesia
• Strong fever, over several days
• Strong emotional shock: loss of a loved one, serious accident…

How to recognise such hair loss?

• Limited in time : no more than 2 months
• Occurring 2 or 3 months after the triggering event
• Sometimes abundant (50% more than usual)
• Totally reversible
• Immediate regrowth

Beware! All such hair losses are said to be ‘telogen effluvlium’ and are temporary, by definition: no more than two or three months are needed for that all the hair that has stopped living after a punctual event to fall.

If the hair loss lasts more than two or three months, or if you notice that your regrowing hair is weaker, that means that the problem has another cause. Such hair loss can indeed be the factor revealing an androgenetic alopecia/hair loss. In the case of a doubt, best is to consult a specialist.

3. Even more rare:
long-lasting, non-hereditary hair loss

Potential triggering factors

• Depressive state or permanent stress Stress ans Hair Loss
• Some medicine Drug-Associated Alopecia (Hair Loss)
• Draconian diets, anorexia
• Hypothyroidia and hyperthyroidia Thyroid problems and Hair Loss
• Diabetes Diabetes and diffuse hair loss
• Iron deficiency Iron Deficiency and Hair Loss

How to recognise such hair loss?

• Non localised hair loss (during the diagnosis, which is what differentiates it from androgenetic hair loss)

• Intervenant 2 à 4 mois après l'apparition du facteur qui les a déclenchées

• Occuring 2 to 4 months after the appearance of the factor that triggered them

• Frequent hair thinning

Accumulation… Any negative influence on your hair loss can aggravate a loss due to other triggering factors that will have preceded it. The negative factors can thus stack up and reinforce each other, especially if you have a natural predisposition for androgenetic hair loss. A poorly balanced diet, for instance, can considerably increase hereditary alopecia.

During the hair diagnosis, the specialist should distinguish triggering factors from aggravating ones in order to better adapt the suggested treatment.

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