Thyroid Disease : Thyroid & Hair Loss In Women
- Posted on 08 July, 2009
- Hair Knowledge
- By Anonymous
An overactive thyroid can cause hair loss in both men and women, but appropriate treatments can halt the loss of hair. Find out how hair loss is usually associated with acute thyroiditis with help from a physician in this free video on thyroid disease and hair loss.
Expert: David Cathcart
Bio: Dr. David Cathcart has been a physician at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo. for over 20 years. He operates the occupational medicine clinic.
Filmmaker: Johnny Cathcart
Hi I'm dr. David Cathcart. I am a family practice physician at Heartland, Regional Medical Center in st. Joseph Missouri, and I've been asked to talk to you today about thyroid disease thyroid and hair loss in women actually thyroid when it's overacting can cause hair loss not only in women but men as Well, but the problem in women, you know, of course, most women don't like to run around the ball so and and once the thyroid has been treated appropriately, then you'll quit losing your hair anyway, but so in the meantime, one would probably just want to get a Wig or some sort of a hairpiece or wear scarf or something until your hair starts growing back, but that would only be a problem in someone who's having an acute attack of what's called thyroiditis, or essentially, as we've been talking about some of the earlier segments that Autoimmune version of thyroid disease such as Graves disease or Hashimoto's thyroiditis, when the thyroid is putting out tons of a large amount of thyroid hormone that can cause the weight loss, the diarrhea, the sweaty skin and hair falling out once the thyroid, though, has been treated appropriately. So it's not producing so much thyroid hormone. The hair will grow back as this dr. Cathcart and thanks for letting me talk to you about thyroid disorders.
Comments
Ahmad Chaudhry: Thanks doc for sharing thyroid disease informations
Am1gax100pre: Can an underactive thyroid cause hair loss?
thudson99: Thyroid medications can also cause hair thinning or hair loss. Which is what happened to me.
curzelcroz: Go to the doctor.... thats all :) I have also the symptoms that your are mentioning :) hehe your not alone and also i haven't go to the doctor yet and i have this for 3 yrs it started when i was 16 and i also have beautiful semi curly hair XD hahaha and I'm hoping that the doctor can fix me XD
mrkhouryflash mrkhouryflash: I have under active throid, I have been taking thyroid meds for 12yrs now, i use to have beautiful healthy long hair now I barley have hair, it is so depressing I don't even want to look at my hair,not to mention weight gain, dry skin, joint pain, depression, mood swings, and super tired all the time, on top of all this I'm losing my eye brows, it's getting shorter and shorter, Some one please help
Lacey Kauk: Can thyroid problems be passed down from 1 generation to another
Linda J. Topp: You can re-grow your hair naturally within 6 months, without pay a lot of money for surgery & costly treatment
djaber adil: Has any one read about Hair 790 Formula? My uncle tried the formula on his head and soon after began seeing new hair growth within the four week period! I forgot the site just simply google the name.
Zakariah1971: Drop dead allopath