Definitions for "Hair Loss"
Age, changing hormones and heredity can cause some people to lose more hair than others. The average head contains about 100,000 hairs, which are lost at a rate of 70 to 100 hairs per day. On most heads the hairs are replaced but as we grow older hair this process slows down. Head Lice Head lice are tiny parasitic insects that are 2 to 3 millimeters long – about the size of a sesame seed, which live by biting and sucking blood from the scalp. Once lice attach their eggs, called nits, to the hair, the eggs hatch in 8 to 10 days, producing more lice.
Loss of hair as a result of chemotherapy or radiation. Hair usually grows back after treatment is complete.
A common side effect of any surgery, but more so in WLS because of the rapid weight loss. It is always temporary though.