Can someone suggest a solution for hair loss?

The only way to completely prevent hair loss is to replace your DNA. Sucks, but that’s how it is.

There was a period of time when my aunt lost hair due to stress. I believe she always washed with Olive oil before shower, she also bought a green substance in a small bottle (I don’t remember its name really but you can ask at a barber shop/coiffeur).
After that her hair was so thick and it grew way taller

@HungryGuy tch tch, this general.

@jessyamr – How did she wash it with olive oil? Did she apply the olive oil and then wash it out?

yeah she applied the olive oil, then wait 10 min before she takes the shower

Consider supplementing with Biotin which help strengthen and thicken hair.

Use a sulfate-free shampoo and conditioner. It isn’t an instant fix, but with time it should be helpful. L’orel makes the Everpure line of sulfate free-shampoos and conditioners. Bedhead also makes a line. The sulfates are harsh on your hair. Also, try giving yourself a head massage when you rub in both the shampoo and conditioner. It will increase circulation and hopefully get your hair growing more quickly. Third, try using a weekly hot oil treatment. Olive oil would work, but there are special coctails that are meant to induce hair growth. I like Doo-Gro, but it has a distinctive smell. You should also rub this into your scalp when using it. The best way to heat the oil is to get a glass or bowl of steaming hot water and leave the bottle of oil in it for about five minutes. Then clip your hair up with a shower cap for ten to twenty minutes and wash out.

I had the same thing happen a while ago. It stopped once I was taking prenatal vitamins for a little while. I’m not sure exactly which part of the prenatal vitamin helped with my hair, but it stopped falling out and actually got to be quite a bit thicker.

@Jellie – General schmeneral! Hair loss has nothing to do with what products you use to wash your hair! It’s determined solely by your DNA.

@HungryGuy Even if hairloss has increased all of a sudden?

@HungryGuy Hair loss due to aging is genetic, but hair loss can be from other reasons as well. One of the most common reasons for hair loss, not related to genetics, is poor nutritional status. Some chemicals in some hair care products can also lead to an increase in hair loss. How we treat our hair can also lead to hair damage and loss (such as excess chemical treatments, heat (blow drying), and even the way we brush it (when it’s tangled and knotty).

@Seaofclouds – I’ll agree with that to some extent, but @Jellie didn’t say anything about a recent change in diet in the question that would have explained the sudden hair loss.

@Jellie – Did you change your diet recently? Change prescription meds? Change jobs or other circumstances that increased your overall stress levels? Go on chemotherapy?

@Seaofclouds – Do you remember the name of the suppliment, may be I could see what it provides for. Like @marinelife said, Biotin may help and I did some wikipedia-ing which said it is also used in pre-natal meds.

@HungryGuy – I’m a “she”!!!!

@Jellie It was just prenatal vitamins I bought at the store. Most prenatal vitamins contain the same ingredients, so just look at any of them online or the next time you are at the store.

@HungryGuy True, but not making a new change in the diet doesn’t mean the current diet is meeting the person’s current nutritional requirements. Our nutritional requirements change a bit over the years as we get older and as our body goes through different hormonal changes.

@HungryGuy – Yea my job is causing me bucket loads of stress actually…

@Jellie – AHA! That’s it!!!!

You might be panicking over nothing.
1.Its not uncommon for our hair to go through cycles of growth and shedding. Especially the longer your hair is because of weight and pulling back your hair into pony tails or pinning it up. Also the longer it is the more likely you have broken strands that just get finished off in the shower.
2.If they are all coming off at the root, cut it shorter. Wash your hair with luke warm water and rinse with cold to tighten your scalp.
3.If the texture of your hair is fine and pretty straight than you probably don’t need conditioning. My hair will fall out easily whenever I use conditioner. My theory is it does the same thing to hair as it would do to your ring on your finger. If you were to put conditioner around your finger as you wore a ring that wasn’t really tight, you will see the ring fall off your finger. I think if you wash with really warm water you relax the skin and then you dump conditioner on it and that helps loosen the strands, then you add conditioner and the hair can’t help but finish falling out fast enough. Especially when combined with rubbing.
4. You may need to bone up on your vitamins. Although olive oil can help strengthen your hair and impove the health of your scalp, it certainly is a lot of trouble to wash out and you may loose more hair in the process. Vitamins like botin and vitamin E may help.
5. Massage your scalp on a regular bases. Your scalp is living tissue unlike your hair and it needs good circulation to stay healthy like any other part of your body.
6. Sometimes hair lose is hormone related. A drop or an elevation in hormones can cause hair to drop. I know everytime I got pregnant, my hair would grow tremendously and after my hormones would drop a few months after I had my child than it would drop like mad. I would even get some small bald spots. I freaked out of course but it all grew back to normal once my hormones where balanced.
7. I saw in your bio that you are 22. If no one in your family was bald by their 20’s then I really wouldn’t worry. To be bald at that age is usually due to an inherited factor.
8. As someone pointed out stress can also be a factor.
9. It could also be a symtom of disease, like a thyroid condition. (there is however a host of other things you probably would’ve noticed before the hair loss)
Sorry this was so long. In short,
wash with cool water,
cut hair short,
(almost forgot) don’t blow dry, try to air dry
squeaze you hair dry with a towel instead of rubbing it
massage your scalp daily
avoid tying your hair up
if you don’t need conditioner than give it up (air drying will help with silker hair anyway)
If you must condition than VO5 conditioner can be applied to the strands
Use a soft brush or comb
careful not to comb your hair to rough after your shower. Your hair will break easier.
change your shampoo (some live residue on your hair and scalp and don’t thouroughly clean off) Switch to baby shampoo for a while and then go back to your regular or something you like better. VO5 shampoo is pretty thourough at cleaning as well.
take vitamins
If your on some medication that may affect your hormones, that also can be a problem

typically, the baldness I’ve seen seems to compliment the persons head, like they were intended to be bald. Maybe it is a way for nature to let a man know that his youth is behind him, and his focus should be on the younger generations welfare….

My mom always laughs at me because one time I told her that I felt cheated out of my mortality because she dyes her hair dark. How will I know what the world really is if I can’t see my parents age. I don’t care, but I think it’s true.

I think people should recognize what they are, not what they wish they were.

LOL I’m a girlllllll @Ltryptophan. You are the second person in this thread to assume I’m a guy.

@Pandora thanks for your answer.

My research says that you can blame your mother for your hair loss.

Did your mother lose her hair?

I have the same problem and I do everything I can to help my hair thicken and stay healthy
. As marinelife said Biotin is recommended. A small amount probably won’t help much but you can safely take 5000mcg which was the amount used in the study which showed it’s efficacy. I hate to recommend supplements because I am not a doctor or nutritionist so if in doubt check with your doctor before you start taking them. Most doctors seem to think supplements are a waste unless you have a condition like anemia or are pregnant. They say your body doesn’t absorb them and mostly they get pissed away. But I believe in them because it’s hard to get all the nutrients you need in the quantities you need them purely in your diet.
Here is evidence that Biotin is absorbed in large doses taken orally.

Absorption
Bioavailability of biotin given orally to humans in pharmacologic doses.
Am J Clin Nutr. 1999.
Patients with carboxylase deficiency are treated with pharmacologic doses of biotin. We sought to determine the bioavailability of biotin at pharmacologic doses. Biotin was administered orally (2, 8, or 81 micromol) or intravenously (18 micromol) to 6 healthy adults in a crossover design with > or =2 wk between each biotin administration. Before and after each administration, timed 24-h urine samples were collected. Urinary biotin and biotin metabolites were analyzed by an HPLC avidin-binding assay. Urinary recoveries of biotin plus metabolites were similar (approximately 50%) after the 2 largest oral doses and the 1 intravenous dose, suggesting 100% bioavailability of the 2 largest oral doses. For unexplained reasons, the apparent recovery of the smallest oral dose was about twice that of the other doses. For all 4 doses, biotin accounted for >50% of the total of biotin and biotin metabolites in urine. Bisnorbiotin (13–23%), biotin-d,l-sulfoxide (5–13%), bisnorbiotin methyl ketone (3–9%), and biotin sulfone (1–3%) accounted for the remainder. The percentage excretion of biotin was greater when biotin was administered intravenously and for the largest oral dose than for the 2 smallest oral doses. Our data provide evidence that oral biotin is completely absorbed even when pharmacologic doses are administered. Biotin metabolites account for a substantial portion of total urinary excretion and must be considered in bioavailability studies. We speculate that renal losses of biotin (as a percentage of the dose administered) are moderately elevated when pharmacologic doses of biotin are administered.

Zinc is another thing that is supposed to help with growth and repair of body systems.

A good line of hair care products is made by Nioxin for thinning hair.
http://nioxin.com/en-US/home-page.aspx
It’s a little expensive so I don’t use the whole system. I like 2 products in particular:
The Scalp Therapy Conditioner and the Weightless Reconstructive Masque. I do not recommend their vitamin supplement because it’s very expensive, I took it for a long time and it didn’t seem to help me at all.

B vitamins get lost during stressful times so it might be wise to supplement your B vitamins also. Being water soluble they cannot be stored in your body so you need to replace them.

Good luck! It’s probably just a temporary situation caused by stress. The hair will grow back if that’s the case. Remember to eat well, get your protein. But stay away from lots of egg white omelettes because egg white interferes with Biotin absorption.