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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.  OP stop replying to the outraged PP; you are just encouraging her (it's probably just a juvenile having fun with you).

Many people tend to shed hair in the fall.  it could just be that.

Or could be the lice treatment or medication; whatever.  It just seems to me like whatever it is, it's not serious and seems like a one-time thing.  My neice has alopecia and your DD's situation does not really sound like that.

Each hair has it's own timeline of growing, dormant, and falling out.  If they are all on the same timeline, then it's like an animal getting/shedding a winter coat.  So to get uniform coverage, it works by having individual timelines for each hair strand.

I think some factors, not sure which, but possibly medication, puts the hair strands all on the same cycle. For example, take Latisse. Latisse works by keeping all hair in the growth phase.  Well if you quit Latisse, then all your eyelashes are in the growth phase and now moving to the dormant phase.  So they all go into the dormant phase and then afte a while they start all falling out, because they are now off their individual cycles.

So perhaps that medication reset her individual hairs to go together and now they are falling out together.  Here is another example. Last year, my dermatologist looked at all the springy short hair popping up on the top of my head (of medium long hair) and she said "it's probably because you moved cross country last year; stressful situations can cause hair loss and now it's all growing back and it's about a year's long worth of growth."

And I notice that this year, I don't have all those springy hairs...just a few, like I should have.[/quote]

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