I often hear from people with longstanding or chronic telogen effluvium who can’t help but notice a troubling change in texture in their hair. Often, they describe their hair as more brittle, dry, or flyaway and they want to know what they can do to make it look better. I heard from someone who said: “My hair has been falling out badly for about seven months. I’m pretty sure I have chronic telogen effluvium, because my hair started falling out after I lost a lot of weight. have become dry, brittle and fly away. What’s causing this texture? And what can I do about it?” I will try to address these questions in the following article.
Why hair loss can take on a new and unwanted texture: The most common reason hair becomes clumpy, dry or flyaway when it is shedding is because it is going into the “resting” or shedding phase of its life cycle. You may already know this, but please bear with me. Hair has distinct phases throughout its life cycle: the anagen or growth phase; the catagen or transitional phase (where it is neither growing nor shedding) and the telogen or resting phase (where it is definitely shedding.) This is the phase where new hairs grow to make room for Hair falls out. So hair at the end of the telogen phase can be dry because it is not deeply embedded in the scalp and is not being actively nourished. (It doesn’t need to be because it will expire soon.)
However, when you have telogen effluvium (or the chronic kind), you have more hair than normal in that resting phase and this means you will have a lot more hair than normal that is not actively being nourished. Are. So the overall look of your hair may be brittle or dry, even though not every hair on your head meets that description. There are other things that can contribute to this. Some hair loss treatments will dry out your scalp and your hair very aggressively. Some of these topicals contain anti androgen components to rid your scalp or excess oil and sebum. And while they can do a good job of it, the result can often be that the product is almost drying to your scalp and your hair.
What you can do about fly away or brittle hair: There are some tricks that I can tell you. If you have long hair, either let it dry in a ponytail or towel dry if the ponytail pulls too much hair. Letting your hair dry by pulling it back will often help it behave better when dry. Also, you can use gel to control those flyaways or even spray on conditioner which is very mild. Lastly, if you can’t even stand the look of the hair, wear it down or pulled back so it’s in place. Plus, occasionally wearing it wavy or curly will help hide some unruliness or dryness. Lastly, I’ve found that applying a little coconut or emu oil to your hands and smoothing it on on the fly away can help tremendously. You just have to be very careful to use very little or your hair may end up looking oily. Also, try not to get too much oil on your scalp as you don’t want to clog your pores.
Source by Ava Alderman
