Normal to lose this much hair?

I'm in my teens and I'm losing quite a bit of hair.. I find that I lose about a handful after showers, all through the day I find hairs on my clothes, arms, shoulders, shoes and EVERYWHERE
Is this normal? The rest of my family have nice thick hair and mine is pretty thin.. as compared to theirs..
I eat very healthy food and have all the right vitamins, but my hair gets thinner and never seems to grow at all.

[SquirreliciousAngel]

do you have bald patches or just hair loss?
I would suggest going to the doctor's as it may actually be a medical condition and if you do have a medical condition they may be able to put you on some medication.



Best of luck!!
~S.A.

[neel_basu]

sorry for my stupid question !
But what is bald patches

[SquirreliciousAngel]

sorry I forget that sometimes what I type only makes sense to me hahahahaha

a bald patch would be where the hair is completely gone and the skin is very smooth, as some people put it it feels like a baby's bum. it feels slightly different from another area where you don't have hair such as a woman's face (since we don't have facial hair)  women still have some peachfuzz whereas a bald patch theres not even peachfuzz.

Did that makes sense?

[neel_basu]

Hmm I understood. so is it possible for hair to grow on bald patch areas ??

[SquirreliciousAngel]

It most definatly is. Even in cases of alopecia areata (spots of hair loss) it is possible that some of the patches will grow back.

[neel_basu]

actually I am suffuring for hair Loss too.
But I dont have dandruf not even (I dont know what it says little animles on hair) and My skin of head was clean too.

But It used to itch and hair loosing from that. I consulted a doctor (just a medical science student. He is not specilized in this Problem) he asked me to use the Sampoo VDRUFF Ketoconazole 20%, A;pe Vera 10% & ZPTO 1%

while using it for the first time I got hair loss while rubbing it on my head. however 2 days gone and not much hair loss now and its not itching much.

but I didnt understood what the problem was !!!

[lovrbirddiana]

Hello and how are you this fine evening, well let me tell you I had and still have alopecia areata; since I was seventeen years old. The first time I lost all of my hair it toke a whole year for it all to come out; yes I was (BALD) and I had the most prettiest hair any one could have, it was dark red ( dark alburn), thick as can be and long with big waves in it. That was twenty-four years ago and they did not know what was causing it to come out and I got shots in my head and that hurt and cost a lot of money, so that did not last long try all different things to try to make my hair grow back and plus all the money on wig ,weaves ,scarfs and hats. So my hair grew back and came out again and grew back again and God its coming out again and it has not came out in a long time, it really never came back 100%, but the hair that did come back was thick so it cover the bald areas  and its pass my shoulders and the pass two months it been coming out bad. I think it has a lot to do with my thyroids I use to be hyperthyroid with graves and a toxic goiter ; got that treated and now I am hypothyroid and iI been off my medicine for a while but I have been taking it now for about three months now. I think when I take my medicine my hair start to fall out , because when I don't my hair did not fall out at all. What a choice take medicine and be Bald or don't take medicine and be very sick. My doctor is going to have to come up with something for me I can not take it again being BALD. Twenty-four years is a long time to go though this on top of everything else I have been though.

PS. I know that I had no answers for you, but just let you know you are not a lone.

                                                                                       Take care
                                                                                         Diana