{"id":14976,"date":"2022-01-21T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T21:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.osfhealthcare.org\/blog\/?p=14976"},"modified":"2022-01-20T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:19:30","slug":"why-is-my-hair-falling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osf-blog.live.imagescape.com\/blog\/why-is-my-hair-falling-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is my hair falling out?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us grow up with a full head of hair, and we\u2019re used to seeing it whenever we look in the mirror or see ourselves in a photo. It\u2019s part of who we are, and some folks even use it to show off their personality.<\/p>\n

So, to see it falling out \u2013 slowly or quickly \u2013 can be a bit upsetting.<\/p>\n

And while a lot of us may expect to lose our hair as we get older due to age or family genetics, it can sometimes happen unexpectedly for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n

How much hair loss is normal?<\/h2>\n

If you look on the floors of your home, inside your vacuum cleaner, or in your favorite brush or comb, odds are you\u2019re going to find plenty of your own hair. And this is normal since every hair on our body has a lifespan before it falls out and a new hair begins growing from that follicle.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt any given time, roughly 90% of our hair is in the growth phase and not at risk of falling out, but roughly 10% is in the final phase where it\u2019ll fall out in the next few months,\u201d said Andrew Peterson, MD<\/a>, a family practice physician<\/a> at OSF HealthCare. \u201cThis prevents us from losing our hair all at once but makes it very normal for us to shed between 50-150 hairs daily, which isn\u2019t noticeable in terms of how we look.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since people don\u2019t keep an actual count of the number of hairs they lose daily, hair loss doesn\u2019t become noticeable until:<\/p>\n