Telogen effluvium is a scalp disorder characterized by the thinning or shedding of hair resulting from the early entry of hair in the telogen phase (the resting phase of the hair follicle). Emotional or physiological stress may result in an alteration of the normal hair cycle and cause the disorder, with potential etiologies including eating disor...
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The second most common form of hair loss (androgenetic alopecia is the first). A condition that causes an increased number of hairs to enter the telogen, or resting phase. The additional shedding usually occurs in response to various stresses such as emotional trauma, post-pregnancy and illness, major surgery, certain medications. Telogen effluvium...
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This condition has its onset 2-3 months after stress or insult to the scalp. Generally 35-50% of hair is affected. One can see over 300 hairs shed per day. The hairs are characteristically
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Increased transient shedding of normal club hairs by premature development of telogen in anagen follicles, resulting from various kinds of stress, e.g., childbirth, shock, drug intake or cessation of an oral contraceptive, fever, and dieting with marked weight loss. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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the early, excessive, temporary loss of normal club hairs from normal resting follicles in the scalp as a result of traumatization by some stimulus (such as surgery, starvation diet, childbirth, drugs, traction, high fever, certain diseases, or psychogenic stress) that prematurely precipitates the anagen phase into catage...
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Telogen effluvium is an abnormal loss of hair due to alteration of the normal hair cycle. Normally, most of the hairs are in the growth stage and only one hundred hairs per day fall from the scalp. When telogen effluvium occurs, a greater proportion of the hairs enter the resting phase of the cycle and hair shedding is greater than normal.
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Hair loss that is temporary, often related to stress, illness, or recent childbirth.
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Type: Term Synonyms: postpartum alopecia
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Telogen effluvium: Excessive temporary loss of telogen hair (hair in the telogen, or resting, phase) caused by trauma such as childbirth, surgery, starvation, certain drugs, and high fever. A normal human hair goes through 3 successive stages of growth: The growing, or anagen, stage is the predominant phase (80% to 90% of a person's hair is usually...
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The second most common form of hair loss (androgenetic alopecia is the first). A condition that causes an increased number of hairs to enter the telogen or resting phase. The additional shedding usually occurs in response to various stresses such as emotional trauma, post-pregnancy and illness, major surgery, and certain medications. Telogen effluv...
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This condition has its onset 2-3 months after stress or insult to the scalp. Generally 35-50% of hair is affected. One can see over 300 hairs shed per day. The hairs are characteristically `club` hairs, i.e. telogen hairs that have a small bulb at the end. Telogen effluvium is much more common in women than men.
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Telogen Effluvium is a form of alopecia that is caused either by a hormonal imbalance or certain medications. It's symptons are that your scalp sheds more hairs than it normally should, this is basically anything above 100 shed hairs a day. This is usually recovered from quickly and the hair starts to grow back on its own, if this is not the case t...
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A pattern of transient diffuse hair loss due to a stressful event. There is an early and excessive entry of hairs into the telogen (resting) phase and a resultant loss of these hairs two to three months later. Also known as stress-induced alopecia.
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