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- Major Causes and Reasons for Hair Loss
- Monkey Message
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Did I Lose My Hair Because I Had a Baby?
Many women report that they went bald following a pregnancy. Dr Joe Jordan, consultant obstetrician/gynaecologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, has seen quite severe cases of hair loss among his patients. "I am convinced that it is due to a hormone swing", he says. It is, of course, well known that hair loss after a pregnancy happens in 45 per cent of cases. Usually this clears up within six months and the hair returns to normal, but many women who contacted me had found that their problem was much more serious. They had lost their hair severely - some totally - soon after childbirth. Medical opinion maintains that it is a question of defining the different types of alopecia. Consultant dermatologist Dr David Fenton, who runs the Hair and Nail Research Unit at St Thomas's Hospital, London, which specializes in alopecia cases, told me, "Alopecia areata does not normally start after a pregnancy. It is probably another type of hair loss such as telagen effluvium, diffuse thinning or even androgenetic (male pattern) baldness".