Written by on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 in African American, Age, Female Hair Loss.
I’m writing on behalf of my mother in law, a 59 year old african american woman. Her hair never seems to grow and she hasn’t gotten a haircut in a long, long while. Can I get your thoughts on “Short Hair Syndrome”? This sounds like what my she is dealing with, but I can’t find [...]
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Written by on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 in African American, Female Hair Loss.
I am an African American female who has been diagnosed with Sarcoid of the skin. I have since lost 85% of my hair and it is NOT growing back. When I was first diagnosed, I would see these scaly flaky spots which would peel away (along with my hair). By the way, I am also [...]
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Written by on Monday, March 3rd, 2008 in African American, Female Hair Loss.
I am an African American female, and I used a chemical relaxer on my hair. Within a few days I had excessive itching and excessive scaling. The results are all over my head. Can you tell me what this could be? Chemical burn? Dandruff? Not sure. I applied Sulphur 8 to mu scalp to control [...]
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Written by on Friday, February 15th, 2008 in African American.
Hey, I came in last summer for a consultation and I had a miniaturization test. The doctor confirmed that I was probably a class 2-3 on the Norwood scale. At the time he prescribed finasteride, which I have taken daily ever since. It’s been about a year now, and although my hair loss may have [...]
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Written by on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 in African American, Female Hair Loss.
I wore pigtails as a young girl and braids on my hear in my late teens and early twenties. Now I am stuck with no hair in the front or one the sides.
This question came from a woman that I just met with. It is a complicated case, mostly because the missing hair covers [...]
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Written by on Friday, February 1st, 2008 in African American, Hair Loss Causes.
I am a 25 year old African American male and I have been relaxing my hair since I was 15 now my hair is very thin and I know its because of the relaxers because baldness does not run in my family, I have been wearing my hair natural for the last 4 months and [...]
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Written by on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in African American, Drugs, Female Hair Loss.
Hello Dr.(40 year old African American female) I was told on the 8th of Jan 08 by a Dermatologist in a county hospital that I have scaring in the crown of my head and very few follicles left because of the way African-American women process their hair, and then as he exits the room he [...]
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