What is telogen alopecia?

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Telogen alopecia is caused by a variety of stress factors. This kind of alopecia most often occurs 3-5 months after a lot of growing hair changes into resting hair prematurely. Generally speaking, the resting hair count > 25% is the diagnostic index of hair loss, and > 20% may be abnormal. What is telogen alopecia? Let's talk about it

What is telogen alopecia?

Diffuse hair loss, but rarely involving more than 50% of the hair, patients found that hair loss increased when combing or washing hair, mostly for temporary sparse hair, occasionally involving body hair. Some patients had hair pain, depression, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and anxiety.

Telogen alopecia is most common in postpartum. During pregnancy, the hair can stagnate in the growth period for a long time, instead of entering the telogen period as normal. During delivery, these hair follicles enter the telogen period at the same time. After 3-5 months, the hair falls off.

In the resting period, the number of hair follicles increased and the hair was pestle like. The hair of telogen hair loss falls off from the root, each hair can be seen depigmented hair ball like structure, but no root sheath. If a 4 mm diameter biopsy is done, 20-25 hairs can be seen in the normal cross section. If more than 12% - 15% of the hair follicles are in the resting period, it indicates that the hair follicles have obviously changed from the growth period to the resting period.

matters needing attention

There is no special treatment for telogen alopecia, the key is to find the cause and remove it. In most cases, hair loss stopped spontaneously within 6 months to 1 year, and the hair could grow again. Should encourage balanced diet, eat more black food and nuts, appropriate psychological counseling, can also use traditional Chinese medicine based integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment.