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Is Weight Loss and/or Diet the Cause of Sudden Hair Loss?
by Kathy
I am a 45 year old female. I was feeling a bit "off" in September 2007. I began treatment with a Chinese herbalist sometime in October 2007. I suffered from severe job related stress and had developed eczema over the summer of 2007 and just felt "crappy" in general. I felt much better after 6 weeks of treatment with the herbalist, but he had restricted my diet. I was so freaked out about my skin, that I more or less kept the restrictions on my diet (no dairy, sweets, etc.). Since my sister was constantly remarking how pale I was, I was dizzy sometimes just sitting at the dining room table talking to her, and I felt like I was going to pass out in yoga class, I figured I was probably pretty deficient in iron. I immediately started taking an iron supplement around the first week of July, and within 3 days, I felt better and my colour came back. I saw a family physician who said that the weight loss was, in her opinion, most definitely the cause of the hair loss. I have since gone back to my normal diet, take iron, a multi vitamin, evening primrose oil, MSM, and a collagen supplement every day. It's now late August 2008, and I'm unfortunately still experiencing hair loss. It's not 200 per day, but has decreased to about 160 to 180 per day. Not significant progress, but I think progress would be pretty slow anyway.
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