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2008-08-21 hair breakage: Your hair could be over processed. Over processing makes one's hair dry and birttle. This could have happened at a hair salon. Thyroid disease can also cause hair problems. Your hair conditioners may...
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2008-08-19 Breastfeeding and hairloss: Your hair loss is from the pregnancy and not breast feeding. The type of hair loss you have is called a Telogen Effluvium. This usually occurs from 3-6 months after birth. We treat this condition with...
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2008-08-19 Hair loss- low ferritin?: Shedding of your hair or telogen effluvium is usually caused by a major stress event on your body. Thus, infection is a common cause of a Telogen Effluvium. Your ferritin is low and where I trained,...
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2008-08-18 Hair loss: Causes of hair loss include: thyroid disease, oral medications that cause hair loss, severe stress, crash diets, systemic diseases, infections or infestations of the scalp, genetics or hereditary factors...
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2008-08-17 losing hair: If the spot is round then you could have alopecia areata which can be in some cases related to thyroid disease. Alopecia areata will resolve in time as in 12-18 months. Lupus can cause this type of hair...
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