Other Hair Conditions
SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS
- Ongoing mild inflammation of the scalp
- Resulting in scaly skin, itchy and flake off.
- Also affects the ears and face.
TRICHOTILLOMANIA
- A mental disorder
- Irresistible urge to pull out one’s hair.
PIEDRA (TRICHOMYCOSIS NODULARIS)
- Fungal infection of the hair shaft.
- Hard nodules made of fungus cling to hair fibers
OTHER HAIR CONDITIONS
- Telogen effluvium
- Postpartum alopecia
- Folliculitis
- Hirsutism
PREMATURE GRAYING OF HAIR
CAUSES
- Stress
- Smoking
- Nutritional deficiencies
- Protein-energy malnutrition
- Diseases of chronic loss of protein
- Vitamin B-12 deficiency
- Problems with your pituitary or thyroid gland
- Hereditary Graying
- Auto-immune disorders
