What Your Hair Is Telling You About Your Health

What Your Hair Says About Your Health // White hair (© Silverstock/Getty Images)
By Sally Wadyka for MSN Health & Fitness
 
A healthy head of hair is easy to spot. It's full, shiny and lustrous with no flakes, frizzies or other visible damage. But what about when your crowning glory isn't quite so glorious? In some cases, it might be a harbinger of health problems—or it could simply mean that you're spending too much time with the blow dryer.
 
White overnight?

We've all heard horror stories of someone who, in the aftermath of some terribly traumatic event, woke up to find their formerly brown, red or blond hair turned shockingly white. Well, don't worry about it happening to you, because, according to Dr. Arielle Kauvar, a New York dermatologist, it simply can't happen. "The only way for hair to turn gray is a gradual decline in melanin production at the root," says Kauvar. "There is no biological event that can remove pigment directly from the hair shaft." However, a physical or emotional trauma can cause a change in the hair. The illness or stress sends actively growing hair into a resting phase, and a couple of months later, all those strands in the resting phase may fall out. So, if the dark hairs fall out and the already white ones remain, the result is hair that looks suddenly grayer.
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Saturday, October 10, 2009 1:24:09 AM
Smile Go to the dollar store get shampoo called silkience  volumizing shampoo. And conditioner  silkience silk-smooth conditioner. Hope this help's you let me know after you use it couple of weeks.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:29:15 PM
medium to light complected,use hair color, going from strawberry blonde to a warm blonde.
but I keep getting bumps on my scalp and back of my neck...could it be allergies to a shampoo or conditioner?

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:26:44 PM

GERITOL COMPLETE VITAMINS// FOR FULLNESS AND BODY --AUSSIE SHAMPOOO AND CONDITIONERS (LEAVE EACH ONE ON FOR 5 MINUTES )  SEPARATELY(ONE AT A TIME)..

                                                                       MIRACLE REPAIR

 

                                                                        

   Open-mouthed I USE HAIR PRODUCTS EVERY OTHER DAY  /ONE VITAMIN EVERY DAY

Friday, June 19, 2009 8:05:23 AM

i have no comment

 

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:32:06 AM

Has anyone heard of or use hair products by the name of standing ovations? this may not be the correct name but i am sure ovation is in there.

Thanks 

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:27:58 AM

Hi , I too have or should i say presently suffer ugly hair from thyroid...(i Think) My hair was always quit nice very long and straight.  recently all of a sudden it falls out by the strands ( long ones), also i have frizz at the roots, and a lot is grey now. I am not sure if this is broken hair or new???  I cut it off! It looks a tiny bit healthier but the frizz continues.  like a scouring ruff pad, unmanageable. I have put a filter on my shower head as i notice a bleach smell from the water a lot, and started biotin and fish oil supplements. 

 

Ps another problem is a salon put a perm dye on which it lasted one day! did not take? is this medications, surgeries, or disease problem related?

HELP CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT can i  DO?  Sad

Saturday, May 09, 2009 5:39:44 PM
I just turned thirty and my hair is breaking off and falling out! I do not color my hair or use a flat iron on it! I do not understand why all of sudden my hair is in such bad shape!
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:44:04 AM

For Hair Vitamins, Viviscal Products for men and women by the Aurora Group (Life2Good) , please visit:

 

http://www.viviscalproducts.com

 

Make sure you use coupon code: FSV for free shipping!

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:31:32 PM
I have medium to longish hair.  All around my face there is white hair.  I love white hair is there any thing that I can do to turn all of myhair white and not make it fall out.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:51:05 PM
My hair, because of my age,  and the loss of my husband, has turned white... At my age I know that color is NOT an option.....I rarely have perms, use a very good shampoo and try to wash it not too often....I would be interested in knowing if there are any products to foster the growth of "older" hair....love the white, but need more fullness...I would appreciate any help out there...Thanks
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