Is Your Hair Falling Out?: General Health

Ziggy · **Site Rank:** Healthy BBF

Is Your Hair Falling Out?

Grab about 60 hairs on your head (the amount that would fit through a straw) and starting at the base, gently tugging at the hairs, pulling up and out. If more than one/tenth of the hairs come out when you pull, it's a sign that you may be experiencing some accelerated hair loss.

tammy · **Site Rank:** Site Admin

What about all the hair that falls out of my head at night when I take a shower? I wonder how much is normal. My hair is naturally pretty thick and it doesn't seem to get thinner when all the hair falls down the drain, so I am kinda confused how that works and how my hair still seems thick. After seeing all of the hair that goes down the drain every time I take a shower, you would think I would be bald by now. But I'm not even close!

Ziggy · **Site Rank:** Healthy BBF

I read somewhere that it is normal to lose about 100 to 150 hairs a day. So... it sounds like you are normal, in the hair shedding category anyway!! lol.

tammy · **Site Rank:** Site Admin

100 - 150 hairs a day!? That seems like so many!

Ziggy · **Site Rank:** Healthy BBF

tammy wrote:

100 - 150 hairs a day!? That seems like so many!

Not when the average person has about 1 million hairs on their head. And... as old hair falls out, they are replaced with new hair.

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