Hair Loss while Breastfeeding
Hair Loss while Breastfeeding To understand the possible causes behind hair loss after pregnancy, one needs to understand a few basics about hair growth. At any given point of time, your hair is in either of the two phases, anagen, the growth phase or telogen, the resting phase. About 85% hair are in anagen, where they grow about 1-2 cm every month. This phase lasts for about 5 to 7 years. The remaining hair are in resting phase, after which they fall out of their follicles. This phase lasts for about 2 to 3 months. The new hair pushes the hair in resting phase out of the follicle. Normal healthy women lose about 100 hair everyday. Hair growth cycle is greatly influenced by the hormones in the body. As you might be aware, pregnancy is a period in which female hormones are rampant. The levels of estrogen and progesterone are particularly high. Estrogen causes the hair to stay in resting phase for an abnormally longer time. It also causes the hair in growth phase to grow fast...