Senior Health Issues

How’s your hair doing, ladies? Are you or your friends experiencing a little hair loss? Has your shower drain become the gift that keeps on giving these days?

I have introduced myself to my skull in several spots and find I liked my skull better with hair.

According to a WebMD feature on MedicineNet, “According to the American Academy of Dermatology, it’s a growing problem, affecting some 30 million women in the United States — with some forms of loss occurring at earlier ages, and being seen in increasing numbers. . . .” And, from this same article, “Experts say our tresses usually grow at the rate of about one-half inch per month — with each hair having a growth phase of two to six years. At that point the hair “rests” for a period of time, then falls out — and the follicle from which it sprang soon starts growing a new strand. And so the cycle continues, usually well into our senior years.”

So it appears that, for genetic, health, or follicle reasons, many of us may be browsing the net to find a cure for our problem or eying wigs narrowly.

Do a Google search for senior women+hair loss and notice the sites that emerge, many promising to make everything ok again. You may even run across a blog devoted entirely to discussion of Alopecia.

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