How stress can make your hair fall out

The causes of hair loss in women are varied but one of the most common causes is stress.

Generally speaking the causes of hair loss in women are classified as either traumatic or non traumatic. Traumatic causes are quite easy to understand - stress of a kind sufficiently severe to cause a major reaction in the body resulting in sudden hair loss.

Traumatic hair loss can be physical or mental and can make your hair fall out prematurely months after the stress is experienced.

Some people experience sudden hair loss after a traumatic event such as the death of a family member or someone close or an accident. These events may trigger hair follicles to enter the “resting” phase of the hair growth cycle prematurely - resulting in an increase in the amount of hair shed about 3 months after the event.

With traumatic hair loss - hair can be lost at an alarming rate - up to as much as three to four thousand hairs per day.

Alarming it may be but traumatic hair loss of this kind can be totally reversed for most women. Provided there is no ongoing stress as a result of the initial trauma - the body should be able to recover and the normal hair growth cycle resumed within about 6 months to a year.

One of the key things in this situation is to understand that your hair will grow back. Fearing the worst and living in a state of anxiety about your hair falling out - although understandable - will cause you more stress.

Accepting the problem as a short term reaction to a traumatic event is the quickest way to reverse traumatic hair loss.

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