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Hi Ive been losing alot more hair then normal lately i was wondering is tehre a thing as seasonal shedding i remember this happened when winter started also..do we shed more at the beginning of a season..then during it?
like ..shedding the winter coat for the summer coat of hair?
Is hair naturally thinner in areas where there is a calic?
Seasonal mass-shedding, I understand, is a trait limited to the non-human mammals. Interestingly enough, one of my three cats -- a charcoal-gray male longhair -- does not undergo seasonal mass-sheds like the other two -- brown-tabby female shorthairs -- do. He just slowly and continuously sheds a bit of hair just like we do and doesn't have seasonal changes in coat texture and density like most cats do.
That's not to say we can't have periodic changes in our shedding rate for any number of reasons, ranging from physiologic stress to changes in our nutrition to perhaps a fever. A few days I have noticed transient, dramatic increases in my hair fallout for no reason I could identify. However, I think it unlkely that humans have any hair shedding mechanism truly related to any seasonal factor.
Hey,
I often hear you lose a little more in the fall(just like leaves), and stress could also be a non hereditary factor.
From "Also...", what's a 'calic'?
A cowlick is a place where your hair sticks out at funny angles as if it has been licked by a cow. This often happens in the area of the whorl. Sometimes people use the term cowlick for the whorl itself, though that's not my dictionary's definition of cowlick.