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Ok, it's a fact we lose several hairs during the day but two questions I get from this:
1. When do you know it's too much hair you are losing?
2. When it's the best time to remove all the loose hairs?, When bathing passing your fingers several times when conditioning or shampooing or When its totally dry combing or brushing several times?.
I really need help with this because I kinda hate ending with lots of hairs on the hand during the day at work when I remove the ponytail for example to readjust it.
Thanks
Res.-
Your head will decide how much it is going to shed and when. It will pay about as much attention to what you want as your cat does.
Why? Is hair that yucky? Get used to shedding. Longhairs shed. In answer to the title of your post, "Anytime is a great time to shed!"
Bill
Hey, I resemble that remark! With 4 independent-minded cats in Even's & my apartment, last night when we were trying to get to sleep, all 4 of them for some reason decided to wake up, --- chasing each other up & down the stairs, thru the kitchen, into the bathtub, flying on the bed then into the closet then down & up the stairs again... They sounded like a herd of buffalo!!!!
- Ken
Sometimes I momentarily awaken in the wee hours of the morning, to hear the cat running madly throughout the apartment, chasing and batting toys around. The next day I may find bizzy balls under the furniture, mini-meece in the bedroom,and an occassional toy in the kitchen.
Before I recently replaced my kitchen rug, she used to go tearing in there at night, into the rug, which slid with her on it, and was found wedged against the trashcan. The rubber backing had went, the new rug took her fun away. Does the same thing with the bathmat. Often find it crumpled up against the hamper. She knocks remotes on the floor, chews plants then spits up, hits keys on my keyboatd with her paw. The cat's life does not revolve around you, your revolve around it's. With four of them, each with their own purrrrsonality, I imagine things get mighty interesting!
Carol
Sounds like you have a hyperactive cat lol. What breed is it?
Calleigh is an American Short Hair Calico, and she's 7 yo, so she is still fairly young too.
Carol
You should loose around 100 hairs per day. It looks like you have a good hairline, so, I would't worry too much about it. As your hair gets longer it will look like you are loosing more hair due to the volume of hair lost and not necessarily due to the quantity. Just make sure that your ponytail isn't too tight. Pulling hair too tightly can damage the follicle, thereby, causing traction alopecia, which is a permanent form of hair-loss.
jeffrey.
So how do you know if it is too tight?
That's a very good question, however, I don't know if anyone can provide an adequate answer to the question. Many African American hairstyles, such as cornrows, result in traction alopecia. Most Dermatologists simply recommend a "loose" ponytail. With greater traction comes more damage to the follicle. Constant traction causes irritation of the follicle and the body's immune system attacts the irritated follicle as a foreign body. Nevertheless, traction alopecia is very real and very permanent. It's a lot like plucking the eyebrows; after a while they won't come back.
jeffrey.
I think the best time is during bath/shower time. Give yourself a thorough scalp massage before wetting your hair. Then again when it's wet, probably during the conditioning stage.
Human hair generally has a 5 year cycle. If you can estimate the number of hairs on your head you can get a better idea of how many you can expect to lose during a day. Average is in the 50-100 per day range. But it will be more or less, depending on how much hair you have. My youngest daughter has over 300,000 hairs on her head.
We estimated this by dividing her hair in half, then taking one half and dividing it again. Keep doing this until it has been divided 10 times. Count the number of hairs in the small lock and multiply by 1000 (1024, but the procedure is not that precise). It was something over 300 for my daughter.
There are about 1800 days in 5 years, so she can expect to lose
300,000 / 1800 = 167 hairs a day. I, on the other hand, have closer to 100,000 hairs (not counting facial hair). I can expect to lose about 100,000 / 1800 = 56 hairs per day.
Sometimes there are freaks of nature, like my friend who doesn't shed at all. Maybe she's part poodle. When she told me that she doesn't shed, I didn't believe it. I challenged her to show me her brush. She did, and there was not a single hair in it. She could grow her hair to the ground if she wanted to. She generally keeps it about butt-length.
Most of my shed hairs end up in my brush. If the hairs are ready to shed, chances are brushing will do the trick. I brush in the morning, and again at night before braiding. I may have a hair or two caught in the hair tie. I would suggest brushing before you tail, to remove as many as hairs as possible, then you shouldn't have too many come out during the day itself.
Carol
Restav,
I take your question seriously. The follicles decide. But I think the best time to let them fall out is in the shower when we are rinsing our hair with conditioner. I shampoo once a week or less often, but work in the yard and get sweaty almost daily, so I shower, but use conditioner only on my hair, and first with my fingers and second with a very wide tooth comb, with no pulling, organize my hair. I am always very careful when I comb it dry, and never pull, never pull, never pull. It is useful to have a detangler handy, just in case you run into tangles which for me are notorious in the fine hair on the back of my head. and Sally's generic is good, so are others.
Caledonian
From what I've read here, the average person has 100,000 hairs, and grows about 1cm in a month. That's 1/30cm in a day, or 30m of total growth per day.
So whenever it feels like I'm losing a lot of hair, I ask myself "am I losing more than 100 feet of hair today?". As long as it's less than that (it always is), it's still a net gain for the day.
*More like the average is 100 per day, not just several.
*Probably when starting to go bald?
*It seems to be best to finger comb your hair 1st "after" it has dried. When wet it is at its most vulnerable and the risk is very high in damaging hair that otherwise would have been fine had you waited for all to dry. There is no BEST time to remove all hairs. They will do so by themselves.
*Ending with lots of hairs is actually rather normal. You will notice it more and more as your hair grows longer. If you had a "buzz," I dare say you would not notice a thing. Please don't worry about it. This is just the way hair cycles go.
I don't have the time to individually reply that's why I'm thanking everyone who posted in this topic.
I think I'll buy the do-it-on-the-shower idea for removing loose hairs.
I laughed with the first posts of Bill and Ken, :) No Ken, I won't set up a schedule to remove loose hair! LoL :P
Thanks to all!.
Res.-