Telogen Effluvium

 


 

Heathy person has hair of which  %85-90 percent is anagen phase and %10-15 is telogen phase. That means while one part of hair falls, one part of it grows.During usual hair siclus, in a day, automatically  fifty-hundred hair is lost. Sometimes, due to external effects, the amount of hair, entering telogen phase, increases. Thus, the process starts which is termed as telogen effluvium and during a long time hair prevalently gets thinner and losing starts. Shortly, the reasons of telogen effluvium can be categorized like that:

  1. Troid abnormalities: Hippo or hyperthyroidism

  2. Serious diets lacking in protein

  3. Physical and emotional stress

  4. Big operations

  5. Lack of iron,anemia

  6. Climacteric

  7. Some drugs: Heparin, beta blokers, vitamin a, warfarin, diaphragm

 

Some researches have made definitions on the foundation of developing changes different phase of hair siclus;

  1. Early anagen terk: Normally anagen phase goes on 2.7 years. But during that kind of hair losing, hair follices enter telogen phase without completing that time. Hair losing which results from taking drugs and high fever, belongs tahat kind of hair losing.

  2. Belated anagen terk: Meanwhile, anagen phase lasts long. Normally, while it is necessary for certain amount of hair follices to pass telogen phase from anagen phase, that process does not come true and after reason disappears, more hair roots pass telogen (due to hair follices in accumulated anagen phase) and suddenly  a great deal of hair  losing srats. Hair losing, starting after pregnancy,belongs that type.

  3. Short anagen: Under some circumstances, anagen phase lasts short and that increases the rate of anagen/telogen. Suddenly, the amount of hair losing  goes up.

  4. Early telogen terk.

  5. Belated telogen terk: Seasonal hair losing occurs in that way.

Telogen effluvium is densely seen among women. Acute  telogen effluvium lasts two-six months and completely recovers.

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