Sunday, June 3, 2007

Information on Trichotillomania

Trichotillomania is a peculiar hair loss disease. You will never find another cause of hair loss as odd as Trichotillomania. In this disease you will have a peculiar advice to pull out your hair fibers mainly from the scalp, and also from eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, nose, pubic or other body hair. And the pulling of scalp hair will cause bald patches.

And what is scarier is that after there is a bald area, you will have a greater urge to pull the hair around it and make the bald larger.

The regular causes of Trichotillomania are anxiety disorders or mood problems. It is considered to be a neurobiological condition.

And you know something interesting? This hair pulling disorder is also found among mice and cockatoos. Mice under stress pull out each others’ hair, while unhappy cockatoos may pluck out their own feathers.

If you want you may have a look at the site www.hairdiseases.com. You will find more fascinating facts about Trichotillomania, and other hair diseases.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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