Typing in dreams! A Hangzhou IT man worked overtime for a month and his hair fell out rapidly

"Hair on the pillow, on the comb, on the floor,

It’s not on your head.”

I don't know since when,

Hair loss has become one of the biggest crises facing young people today.

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Data from the National Health Commission shows that more than 250 million people in my country are suffering from hair loss, which means that one in every six people has hair loss. In recent years, hair loss has become younger, with a large number of people born in the 1990s and 2000s joining the ranks of those suffering from hair loss.

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IT industry has become a "hard-hit area" for hair loss

One guy lost almost all his hair in one month.

"Judging from the situation in the hair loss clinic at the Binjiang campus of Zhejiang Second Hospital, many of them are young people in their twenties and thirties." Dr. Jing Jing told reporters that young people have become the main force in the hair loss clinic. On the one hand, there is indeed a clear trend of hair loss becoming younger. On the other hand, it is because young people care more about their appearance. Faced with social needs such as love and job hunting, they are often full of anxiety due to "premature baldness" and are eager to save their bald heads or hairlines.

Among the young people suffering from hair loss, the IT industry is the hardest hit. "When I asked the patients about their occupations, many told me that they were in the IT industry. Overtime, staying up late, and high work pressure were the most frequently mentioned words." Dr. Jing Jing said that recently her clinic had a programmer who was working overtime like crazy. His hair started falling out rapidly in a month, and his originally thick black hair was almost gone.

"Doctor, can my hair be saved?" As soon as he entered the clinic, the young man took off his hat, revealing a large area of ​​bald scalp with only a few sparse hairs. He looked like malnourished grass drooping on barren land.

"I used to have a lot of hair, but in less than a month, it fell out to this extent." The young man took out his ID photo, pointed at the completely different photo, and sighed repeatedly.

Doctor Jing Jing learned that the young man was 26 years old and worked in a large factory in Hangzhou. Staying up late to work overtime was commonplace. As "618" approached, he was even busier and often got off work in the early morning. Even in his dreams, he was frantically typing on the keyboard to change the code. Gradually, he found that more and more hair fell on the pillow and the bathroom floor. Recently, he could grab a lot of hair with just a scratch, so a hat became his standard when he went out. In order to make his hair grow back, he bought the legendary hair growth liquid and wiped his scalp with ginger every day, but it didn't work. He became more and more anxious and could only ask the doctor for help.

After a trichoscope examination, the young man was diagnosed with acute diffuse alopecia areata.

Alopecia areata, commonly known as "ghost hair loss", refers to the sudden appearance of hair loss patches on the scalp. At present, it is generally believed in clinic that alopecia areata is an organ-specific autoimmune disease with a genetic background. It refers to the sudden appearance of hair loss patches on the scalp. The lesions appear as round or oval non-scarring hair loss.

Jing Jing said that alopecia areata can occur at any age, and some patients have been mentally stimulated or traumatized before the onset of the disease. "If a person is under great mental stress, is nervous and anxious for a long time, and lacks sleep, the probability of alopecia areata will increase."

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Early treatment can "rejuvenate" your hair

Hair transplantation is just robbing Peter to pay Paul

In addition to alopecia areata, a more common type of hair loss clinically is androgenic alopecia, formerly called seborrheic alopecia. The culprit is the increased conversion of testosterone into dihydrotestosterone, which shortens the growth cycle of hair follicles, causing the hair follicles to change from big trees to small grasses and finally fall off. This is also the reason why seborrheic alopecia is more common in men.

Androgenic alopecia manifests differently in men and women. Male patients generally have a receding hairline, forming M-shaped hair loss and a bald head on top; female patients often have gradually sparse hair on the top of the head and a gradually widening hairline.

Whether it is alopecia areata or seborrheic alopecia, both can be treated to make your hair look younger. "Generally speaking, hair loss is reversible, but it requires standardized comprehensive treatment, which usually takes more than three to six months." Doctor Jing Jing reminded that treatment should be started early. If it is in the late stage, the scalp hair follicles have closed and the treatment effect will be greatly reduced.

Dr. Jing Jing believes that the popular anti-hair loss shampoo on the market is a gimmick. "The main function of shampoo is to clean the scalp, and it has no value in preventing hair loss." In addition, it is not recommended for patients with allergies to wipe the hair loss area with ginger, which may easily cause contact dermatitis.

Many people say that their hair falls out in clumps after recovery. In this regard, Dr. Jing Jing said that there are indeed literature reports showing that COVID-19 infection may cause hair loss, which is mainly related to the disease itself or drugs. Clinically, alopecia areata and telogen effluvium are the two main types of hair loss, which are usually obvious within one to three months after recovery. Although this type of hair loss is usually reversible, if the hair loss does not improve, the hair gap becomes larger, and the hair loss does not decrease every day after recovery, you can go to the hospital for a trichoscope examination to find out the cause of the hair loss and then treat it symptomatically.

Dr. Jing Jing often encounters patients asking about hair transplantation in the clinic. Can hair transplantation really solve the problem once and for all? From a specific operation point of view, hair transplantation is to take the hair follicles at the back of the human head as the source of hair, separate them into single or multiple hair follicle units, and transplant the hair follicle units to the part that needs to be transplanted through microsurgery technology, so that they can survive and grow naturally in the new part, so as to achieve the purpose of repairing local hair and improving hair distribution and density. "It should be noted that hair transplantation only changes the distribution of hair, but not the number of hair, which is to rob Peter to repair West, and use the hair follicles in the back to repair the front." Moreover, hair transplantation cannot replace drug treatment. Preoperative evaluation and perioperative care of hair transplantation are very important. If the patient stops drug treatment after hair transplantation, a gully may form on the head, affecting the appearance.

How can you protect your hair? Dr. Jing Jing recommends that young people should maintain a good lifestyle, eat healthy, have a regular work and rest schedule, avoid staying up late, and stay in a good mood. They can also massage their scalp properly to promote blood circulation in the head, which is beneficial to the health of the scalp and the growth of hair. If you find that you lose more than 100 hairs a day and it lasts for 2 to 4 weeks, you should sound the alarm and go to a regular hospital for treatment in time.

Source: Chao News

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