A difficult child birth or sleep depravation can cause tremendous stress to the mother and emotional stress can alter the normal balance of amino acids and proteins necessary for normal hair growth. The amount of hair lost can depend on the severity of the stress and partly on the individual s susceptibility to it. This hair loss is easily treated with Hair Fantastique s Wonder Intensive Treatment kit. If your stress is very severe seek medical advice. Tel o gen Effluvium .
Acute stress causes diffuse hair loss, of classical telogen effluvium type hair loss.
The stress can be the result of an acute illness, high fever, trauma, an accident or injury, or surgery, particularly when there is severe blood loss or shock. The stress causes a number of follicles to change suddenly from the anegen or growing stage into the telogen phase. Two to four months later, following the normal cyclic pattern, diffuse shedding of hair begins. The amount of hair loss varies, but hair loss will continue for six weeks even if stress does not continue. When diffuse hair loss arises as a result of prolonged stress, it is probably the increased production of the adrenal gland hormone.