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After I brush my hair, theres a lot of hair in between the teeth of the brush. It isn't a few hairs a each time I brush and the amount built up to look like a lot because i clean out the brush after I brush my hair. Is there a way to stop or lessen this hair lose?
There is no way you clean more hairs out of your brush then I do. Why would you want it to stop its natural....its what happens when you have long hair.
It's completely normal to lose hairs like that an average person loses 150 hairs+ a day. I have lots of hair that comes out on a daily basis but new hairs will grow in their place. There's no need to worry that you are balding that most likely not it at all. I've noticed many more or just have noticed hair in my hairbrush since it has grown out. There's nothing to worry about. I hope this helps you out.
It all depends on your hair count. If you have medium hair and lose 150 hairs per day your hair will not get very long at all. If you have 100,000 strands on your head (which is an average value for medium hair) then 150 is 1/667 of your total hair strand count which means a growth cycle of only 1.825 years. At a growth rate of 6 inches per year your hair will max out at only 11 inches. This is a catastrophic amount to lose per day.
On the other hand, if you have very fine hair (about 300,000 strands) losing 150 per day is not a big deal. It is only 1/2000 of your total hair strands being lost per day and your hair should max out at 33 inches. Try using a wide tooth comb instead of a brush to minimize losses. I lose maybe 40 per day on the average and have medium to fine hair. I also use a wide tooth comb and had good success. In a nutshell minimum loss=maximum length. Click on my photo to see. I am 51 years old. Absalom
I used to clean loads of hair out of my brush. At the time my hair was "stuck" at a length short of my waist. After I started conditioning properly and otherwise taking good care of my hair, I found I lose less than 10 full-length (with follicle) a day, and hardly any without. I have at least 150,000 hairs on my head, and I calculate that I must have broken close to 15,000 hairs a month to stay there without a trim.
Now that your hair loss due to breakage is minimal you will probably be able to grow your hair to the floor, if you so desire. Here is a way to get a fairly accurate hair count. Put your hair into a ponytail. Divide your ponytail in half, then divide the half in half and so on 10 times. Count the strands. Multiply by 1000. The resulting number will be close your total hair count. If you have numerous flyaway hairs that do not reach the ponytail you will want to add about 10% to your total. If your bangs are trimmed short as well you will want to add about 20% to the total. In my estimation this method should be accurate to within 5%. I have not done this on myself yet but I am guessing that I have about 125,000 strands on my head. Absalom
That's quite a 'formula'!
What I did was to measure the circumference of my ponytail, then count the number of hairs in a tightly twisted 1/8" strand. A little mathematical conversion gives you the number of hairs per square inch of rope and the number of hairs in your pony.
Multiply by 1024. Sorry. It's the irrepressable "hacker" in me.
1024? Maybe it's because it's 1:03 in the morning, but I'm not understanding the reason behind this
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When you split the tail in half, you have 1/2 of the hairs in one hand, then split it again and you have 1/4, then 1/8, 1/16... 1/1024.
In other words, 1/(2 to the Nth power) where N is the number of times you split the tail.
Now, any real mathematicians care to calculate the maximum possible error based on some typical percentage of how bad you are at splitting the tail? What if you have a tendancy to consistantly miss 5% of the hairs, or grab 5% extra? That's probably not too difficult to calculate.
The innaccuracy from the grabbing is probably more of a bell curve--sometimes you'll grab too many sometimes too few. Coming up with a final accuracy figure based on that is probably much more challenging.
I'd be more inclined to write a simple program to simulate the error as opposed to actually figuring that out, because I almost flunked statistics.
Last time my hair was very long I was unable to brush it by myself (couldn't reach the end of it with a brush at arm's length), and had no one to help me with it. I'm not sure how I'd handle it this time, though some women seem to have acquired significant others who want to help with the task. :-)
Yes, I know what this is like, mine is close to my knees and it is hard to comb all the way to the ends without stretching my arms a bit. I will prohably keep it trimmed at knee length to make things a little easier. Absalom
What do you mean by "with follicle"?
If you look at a hair that has fallen out from your scalp, or one which you have plucked from your head, you will see that at the end there is a bulb, a wider section. This is the root. Any hairs which are in your brush due to breakage will not have this bulb on the end of them. Depending on the coarseness of your hair, you may be able to feel it better than see it, though a magnifying glass will help.
I've seen hairs with the roots that have fallen out, if I can see them very easily, which I can, does that suggest that my hair is very wide in diameter??
Then your hair is coarser than mine.
OK thanks:)
The hair like that does grow, right? When you say follcile I'm thinking the pore or whatever thats in the skin where to hair grows out of.
What about thick hair?
Hi Phillip, if you have thick hair, you will have a high hair strand count. The more hairs you have on your head the more you can lose per day without a problem. Absalom
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I noticed a vast improvement in hair loss when I combed with a wide 'fro pick comb, myself.
Three other things help:
1. shampoo your hair every 3 days or longer, if you can stand it. The natural oils will do fine if you wash your hair in tepid water.
2. If you itch, scratch with your fingerpads, not your nails.
3. Use hair jewelry that doesn't crimp your hair (i.e.--not too tight on the bands. I use barettes, myself.
