Hair loss in children

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP again, sorry I didn't see the blood thinner. Maybe only the Iron Deficiency then.

She had a blood clot which is resolved. She stopped taking blood thinners at the end of sept. and takes a vitamin but i will explore the iron with her MD

[Anonymous]

I had very long hair like this and when I was around her age to age 10 when it started rapidly falling out. I'd had no other things going on in my life that could be the cause like your DD has (swimming, lice treatment, medicine), so my mom took me to my doctor who did some tests and ended up declaring it was hormonal. She said it was due to the onset of puberty and changing hormones, much in the way that women often experience hair loss after giving birth.

Some days it seemed like more hair fell out than others. It started slowing down from age 11 on until I got my first period. I did end up cutting my hair because I couldn't stand the long strands that would get all over everything, especially when wet.

My hair has never been the same since it started falling out. Before it was very thick and very healthy looking. After it began falling out, my hair became very thin and the new hair growing in was much more fine. I'm in my late 30s now and my hair is still very fine and thin. I have no proof, but I always wondered if it was somehow related to the length of my hair because my sister, who always had short hair, never went through the same thing. She still has full, thick hair like our mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs to get her hair cut. No way that one lice treatment and comb through is going to get all the lice out of 2.5 feet of hair. Your daughter will be the Typhoid Mary of lice and continually spreading it back and forth with her friends. Are you meticulously combing through her hair every day looking for nits?

And her scalp probably had some kind of reaction to the lice treatment medication which is why her hair is falling out.

You are not supposed to comb the nits out every day. I had her professionally treated on sunday. Their protocol according to the life cycle of lice, is to repeat treatment 5 days later, which is today. They said daily combing is ineffective.

That is the opposite of what I have always heard and done. Keep a close eye on her hair. (I know this isn't your primary concern, but I've been through lice several times with my kids.)

[Anonymous]

3-4 inches sine September? Its....October.

Is anyone else picturing OP's child?
http://socalcitykids.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Female-Zombie_Lifeless-Lisa-copy.jpg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3-4 inches sine September? Its....October.

Is anyone else picturing OP's child?
http://socalcitykids.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Female-Zombie_Lifeless-Lisa-copy.jpg

pretty much.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, I don't have any helpful tips, however I can't imagine it has to do with the lice treatment. We've been through that so many times... I actually just chimed in to say I'm shocked at how many people on here, presumably many of them parents themselves, feel comfortable making insulting comments towards a child. I can certainly be a bitch, but never towards a kid. Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, I don't have any helpful tips, however I can't imagine it has to do with the lice treatment. We've been through that so many times... I actually just chimed in to say I'm shocked at how many people on here, presumably many of them parents themselves, feel comfortable making insulting comments towards a child. I can certainly be a bitch, but never towards a kid. Wow.

Exactly. Losers

[Anonymous]

It’s probably akin to the discomfort I feel about a mother growing feet of hair and watching her child go bald.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s probably akin to the discomfort I feel about a mother growing feet of hair and watching her child go bald.

Ok drama queen. Your comprehension is A+ today.

[Anonymous]

I also feel intuitively that having short hair at least intermittently would be good for the hair. Such long hair also is a continuous pull on the scalp.

OP, beware that you are not indirectly pressuring your child to have long hair. My mom never absolutely forbid me to cut my hair, but I really wanted to have her approval and it was very clear that SHE liked my hair long. I am resentful of it, because I think long hair is a waste of time and inhibits activity for a child, and because I brushing it out is a pain, and pulling it back always gave me a headache.

The way you describe your child and how her hair makes her look like a model makes me suspect that directly or indirectly she probably feels a lot of pressure to keep her hair long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s probably akin to the discomfort I feel about a mother growing feet of hair and watching her child go bald.

Ok drama queen. Your comprehension is A+ today.

No, drama is a child with hair past her rectum. Drama is special swim caps and special braids and assuming that it’s all the fault of others- give her poor hair a break and cut it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s probably akin to the discomfort I feel about a mother growing feet of hair and watching her child go bald.

Ok drama queen. Your comprehension is A+ today.

No, drama is a child with hair past her rectum. Drama is special swim caps and special braids and assuming that it’s all the fault of others- give her poor hair a break and cut it!

Her hair length is her choice. She takes care of it. It's not like I'm an old hag keeping her in a tower growing her hair for it's magical qualities. Get it? We cut it all the time. Special swim cap? She's on swim team. Maybe you aren't familiar with that but they all wear special swim caps. It's part of their uniform.

[Anonymous]

NP here, my DD age 9 recently had lice and long hair like your DD. I think you misunderstood the directions re lice treatment! We had Lice Happens come to our house and treat everyone as a precaution, and the protocol is that you need to comb through the kids every single night for 10 days. That will catch any straggling nits and nymphs and also catch any eggs that might hatch. So, I don't think you're doing it right.

Hair grows in cycles, and it's possible that your daughter is going through a shedding cycle now. but between the hair loss and lice, I think I would cut her hair to midback at the very least. It will grow back, and will be much easier for you to comb every day.

You NEED TO COMB EVERY DAY. Especially if it was a 'natural" treatment similar to Lice Happens.

[Anonymous]

Is it diffuse hair loss? Are you sure there aren't any spots? It could be beginning of alopecia areata or totalis. I had/have that and when it started had diffuse loss as well as spots. But you wouldn't see the spots unless you looked for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here, my DD age 9 recently had lice and long hair like your DD. I think you misunderstood the directions re lice treatment! We had Lice Happens come to our house and treat everyone as a precaution, and the protocol is that you need to comb through the kids every single night for 10 days. That will catch any straggling nits and nymphs and also catch any eggs that might hatch. So, I don't think you're doing it right.

Hair grows in cycles, and it's possible that your daughter is going through a shedding cycle now. but between the hair loss and lice, I think I would cut her hair to midback at the very least. It will grow back, and will be much easier for you to comb every day.

You NEED TO COMB EVERY DAY. Especially if it was a 'natural" treatment similar to Lice Happens.

I didn't do an otc treatment. I had a company come to my house and treat everyone in our family. They explained in detail what our maintenance would be, and left literature to instruct. If they are wrong they guarantee their work and they are coming back to fix it.