During adolescence, our hormones are in a tizzy. Pair this with lack of proper nutrition, lack of hair care, genetic factors, and you have the most common causes of hair loss. Teenaged girls are often more susceptible than teenage boys to experience noticeable hair loss.
This is very normal! Losing hair is a regular part of puberty, especially if you're a boy and balding is common for men in your family (but this also happens to girls!) As long as you aren't losing hair in very large clumps all over your head, you're going to be okay.
Both mature and receding hairlines can start at a young age, typically between the late teens and the late twenties.
Alopecia areata often starts suddenly with one or more round, smooth bald patches on the scalp. It is possible for all the hair on the head to fall out, but this isn't common. Often, hair grows back within several months, even without treatment.
While you may feel like you are too young to start losing your hair in your teens, the reality is that hair loss can begin as early as 15 or 16 years old. While it's uncommon, hair loss in your teens tends to come on gradually, beginning with thinning hair or a receding hairline.
Common causes of hair loss in children [3,4] include telogen effluvium, tinea capitis, bacterial infections, traction alopecia, trichotillomania, alopecia areata.
Some home remedies include addressing any nutritional deficiencies, changing up hairstyles and hair products, and massaging essential oils into the scalp. Medical therapies, such as minoxidil, finasteride, and hair transplants, are more effective than home remedies and are suitable for most causes of receding hairline.
Dandruff itself does not cause hair loss. However, severe dandruff can cause a person to scratch their scalp so hard that they injure it. Repeated inflammation in the hair follicles can cause damage and scarring, slowing or stopping hair growth. This can cause weak or thinning hair.
On average, you can expect to lose between 50 and 150 hairs daily. Yes, this may seem like a lot, but look at it this way: You have around 100,000 (or more) hair follicles on your head. So, routine hair shedding is just a drop in the bucket.
Puberty is the first time in a young girl's life that she experiences major hormonal changes. As hormones change, physical symptoms such as acne, menstruation, and changes to her shape occur. It can be a difficult time for many adolescent girls, and to make matters worse, some will experience hair loss during puberty.
It can be the result of heredity, hormonal changes, medical conditions or a normal part of aging. Anyone can lose hair on their head, but it's more common in men. Baldness typically refers to excessive hair loss from your scalp. Hereditary hair loss with age is the most common cause of baldness.
Effective treatments for some types of hair loss are available. You might be able to reverse hair loss, or at least slow it. With some conditions, such as patchy hair loss (alopecia areata), hair may regrow without treatment within a year. Treatments for hair loss include medications and surgery.
During adolescence, our hormones are in a tizzy. Pair this with lack of proper nutrition, lack of hair care, genetic factors, and you have the most common causes of hair loss. Teenaged girls are often more susceptible than teenage boys to experience noticeable hair loss.
The shape a maturing hairline takes usually is an M, meaning you have a peak in the middle of your hairline and it curves back at the temples. While a balding hairline will also start with this shape, a maturing hairline won't continue to recede and the hairline will generally be quite defined as well.