Autumn and hair loss

When  summer is giving one final short performance and is gradually bowing out to the first harbingers of  autumn, many people wonder if there really is a direct relationship between this season’s arrival  and a greater hair loss.

The  questions in relation to this problem are so many that we have resorted to some studies that have been carried out in this regard. Most of them  agree that  it  is normal for us to be subjected to a greater hair loss during the change of season and especially from summer to autumn.

According to a study,  published in the prestigious “British Journal of Dermatology”, in  which  hundreds of  people of  8 different  countries were enrolled within a ten-year period,   it can be said that hair loss increases in seasonal changes.

As this report states,  hair, in response to  the human being evolution, has had the function of providing us with heat, so during the warmer seasons we tend to lose more follicles than during the colder ones.

That is the reason why during the spring we can notice a loss of volume that  lasts  until the arrival of Autumn,  a period  during  which the hair cycle is inevitably subject to being sped up  in order  to regenerate  most of hair  with  the  new and warmer ones.

How much hair is normal for us to lose?

As we have been repeating to a sickening degree in this blog, specialized in hair health, the average daily hair loss – both in men and women – is between 50 and 100 hair follicles.  This amount  could be increased to 150 hair  during  seasonal changes.

However, if any fall  exceeds these figures, it would be advisable  to consult a doctor as soon as possible, since this noticeable loss is considered on the edge from  what is known as the natural cycle of  hair growth.

This cycle  extends between 2 and 6 years and  ends with the old follicle fall  to give rise to the new ones.  After  a period of three months, during   which we will experience an occasional loss of volume and density of  our hair, over time it will disappear.

In any case, as we usually repeat in this website, if we notice an unusual loss of hair, the best thing we can do is to consult  a specialist to check if it is due to a seasonal change, to a deficit feeding, to stress, to a hormonal change, to the intake of certain medicinal substances, to the organism response to some treatment or if the fall is the result of an alopecia that we have to treat as soon as possible to prevent it from spreading throughout the scalp.

However,  if this is our case, we  have to remember that  we can resort to hair transplantation and recover all lost hair through the technique of hair grafting. It is an  interventation procedure in which  we are specialists in Capiclinic, the clinic that offers   results  with a lifetime guarantee  at unbeatable prices.