I get a lot of questions about hair regrowth from people who have hair loss or hair loss from conditions such as telogen effluvium, chronic telogen effluvium, androgenic alopecia, or medical/autoimmune hair loss. Of all these questions, people with CTE seem to bother the most because they have been living with the deficiency for a long time. By the time they write to me, usually the damage has been going on for so long that the effects start to be noticeable. Of course, they want reassurance that once they are able to stop the hair loss, they will regrow their hair and move on with their lives. I will discuss this more in the following article.
Clinical definition of CTE and why you should stop it: You may well already know this, but chronic telogen effluvium technically means you shed more than 10% of your hair volume (which works out to over 100 hairs per day for most people. ) have been shedding for more than six months. Obviously, leaving it on for so long is eventually going to show up and become noticeable in terms of loss of volume and maybe some noticeable areas on certain parts of your scalp.
There is every possibility that you are re-growing hair as long as this process is going on, but because you are losing it so fast that you are not getting any real benefit. In other words, your scalp is kicking out these hairs before they can contribute to any real improvement. Therefore, it is important that you stop this cycle as soon as possible.
Now, chronic telogen effluvium is usually caused by a trigger that you either can’t find or fix and that’s what makes it so difficult to treat. It is sometimes a process of trial and error, and slowly trying and evaluating different things until something eventually works. And sometimes, unfortunately, treatments will change our hormones even more or introduce another trigger that only perpetuates the problem. This is why you should go as slowly as possible when trying these treatments and why you should only introduce one thing at a time.
Your hair has probably been growing back all along, but it’s not taking hold: What is happening right now is that you are in the middle of a cycle in which your hair goes into a resting phase and then falls out again. It really has nothing to do with your redevelopment process. This is actually happening but it cannot continue. You’re probably regrowing hair, only to have it plucked out again. If your loss was due to androgens or DHT, this cycle will be slightly different. You’ll have AGA instead, and AGA usually affects both the quality or quantity of your growth, but chronic telogen effluvium usually doesn’t (unless it’s lasted so long that it has caused AGA to shut down. or it has started to affect or fail) your ROM.)
In some cases, this rapid hair loss will cause some inflammation of the scalp which can affect your hair follicles and your regrowth. If this is the case, there’s a lot you can do to soothe and heal the scalp. Still, if you can’t stop this cycle from continuing to repeat itself, this alone won’t help as much as it should. Your first priority should be to find your trigger and then treat it once and for all in order to prevent a recurrence. Once you are back to a stable level of hair loss, you can work to stimulate your scalp and reduce any inflammation so that your growth is quicker, vigorous, healthier, and thicker.
Source by Ava Alderman
