Can some one teach me about hair loss?

[starlamelissa]

My husband is growing his hair out along with me, and his hair is really nice, its wavy and blonde, coarse with no splits/dots. He does not trim, and washes everyday with a 2 in 1 dandruff shampoo.

For the past 5 years his hair line has been pretty high, but it hasnt seemed to bother him. Right now his hair is APL, and we were talking last night, and he said soon he would have to cut it all off!
"Why?" I said, and he said because with him loosing his hair soon he would look ridiculous. :( "What if you dont lose any more?" I said... and he said that since he is only 28, he will most likely be a bald man in his 30's.

Is this true? I mean, he has a receiding hairline and a bald spot...but does that mean its all gonna fall out? Poor guy, this is his first time having long hair, and it would suck if once he reached his goal of mid shoulder he whacked it all off without getting much time to enjoy it.

[akilina]

It will most likely continue to thin out. Are there bald men on either side of his family?
I would encourage him to keep it a little longer if he can.
My brother had amazing thick hair down to his bum and once he shaved it he just started going bald.
I am not saying that shaving his head made him bald..that is impossible but he never got his hair back again.

[Tota]

If he has bald relatives on either side of his family then there's a strong possibility he will be bald too. I also heard that women whose male ancestors were bald carry the gene for baldness on to their male children. If that's true I'm very sad because my father was already bald at 25 and I guess that means I carry that gene :(

[jeanniet]

Hair can thin out pretty slowly, so tell him to not worry yet. My husband's dad always told him he'd be bald by 30 because he was, but at 54 all he really has is a thinning area on top and no actual bald spots yet. He has a high hair line and we always thought he'd really thin out there, but it hasn't receded much in the 34 years I've known him.

[starlamelissa]

No one in his family is bald, but his grandfather on his mom's side has thin see through to the scalp hair. His uncle too. Damn!

Oh well. we are quite a pair, I'll be plus sized with hair to my ass and he will be pint sized with nary a hair on his head.

[akilina]

If he has bald relatives on either side of his family then there's a strong possibility he will be bald too. I also heard that women whose male ancestors were bald carry the gene for baldness on to their male children. If that's true I'm very sad because my father was already bald at 25 and I guess that means I carry that gene :(
Oh god I feel bad for my future male children... -____- so bad.
My boyfriend has Super super thick amazing hair..probably never going to go bald. However, my dad is really bald, and my brother was going really bald probably by 25!
Assuming that we have kids together some day..I hope that his genes take over there.

[Tota]

No one in his family is bald, but his grandfather on his mom's side has thin see through to the scalp hair. His uncle too. Damn!

But they're older so he still has some time to enjoy his hair.

This article claims what I wrote earlier: http://www.essortment.com/male-pattern-baldness-59917.html

ETA: Akilina, we have the same problem. My bf has the most amazing, healthy and the thickest wavy hair I've ever seen on anyone. My father had gorgeous silky golden blonde hair but it was all gone by the time he was 25. I have his hair. My poor future theoretical sons :(

[salisem]

Hair loss isn't always a linear, constant thing.

My bf's hairline receded to about the top of his head when he was in his late 20's. He is now 40, and he doesn't look any different when he did when he was 28. After that first initial shed, it just stopped falling out.

So there is hope... :)

[Madora]

My husband is growing his hair out along with me, and his hair is really nice, its wavy and blonde, coarse with no splits/dots. He does not trim, and washes everyday with a 2 in 1 dandruff shampoo.

For the past 5 years his hair line has been pretty high, but it hasnt seemed to bother him. Right now his hair is APL, and we were talking last night, and he said soon he would have to cut it all off!
"Why?" I said, and he said because with him loosing his hair soon he would look ridiculous. :( "What if you dont lose any more?" I said... and he said that since he is only 28, he will most likely be a bald man in his 30's.

Is this true? I mean, he has a receiding hairline and a bald spot...but does that mean its all gonna fall out? Poor guy, this is his first time having long hair, and it would suck if once he reached his goal of mid shoulder he whacked it all off without getting much time to enjoy it.

Perhaps you should make an appointment with a trichologist (hair doctor) and see if there is anything he can use to slow down the fallout.

Perhaps he is washing too much and his shampoo needs to be gentler?

Also ask about scalp massage to help with circulation among the hair follicles. Good luck!

[spookyghost]

If he has bald relatives on either side of his family then there's a strong possibility he will be bald too. I also heard that women whose male ancestors were bald carry the gene for baldness on to their male children. If that's true I'm very sad because my father was already bald at 25 and I guess that means I carry that gene :(

Boy do I hear you sister!:p My dad was bald by 19! I know-poor guy. I have two boys 21 and 18. So far they have all their hair and no signs of balding but I do wonder if its in their future. I think the odds are against them. But my dad was bald by 19. You know the look. Completely bald on top and part way down the sides and then the rest of his sides still had hair.

But I love short hair on men. Love it. If my dh were to shave his head tonight Id flip! Haha. He keeps it short but I'd love it shorter. So I told my boys that if they start losing their hair to just shave it or get it cut real short. I know thats easy for me to say. I mean who wants to lose their hair? But at least they dont have a dream of long hair because that would make it alot worse for them.

[raingirl]

Balding genes are not passed on from father to son, they are passed from mother to son. If the maternal grandfather is balding, or the uncles (brothers of the mother) are balding, then it's likely that he could get the same genes. But it's not 100% because multiple genes cause baldness.

Read up on DHT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrotestosterone). I only just found out about this (I have crown thinning). Apparently caffeine (applied on the scalp) and some antifungals (there's a monistat thread around here somewhere) can help with DHT if that's the issue.

However, I think long hair on men, even if it's thinning in some areas, is still awesome.

[akilina]

Balding genes are not passed on from father to son, they are passed from mother to son. If the maternal grandfather is balding, or the uncles (brothers of the mother) are balding, then it's likely that he could get the same genes. But it's not 100% because multiple genes cause baldness.

Read up on DHT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrotestosterone). I only just found out about this (I have crown thinning). Apparently caffeine (applied on the scalp) and some antifungals (there's a monistat thread around here somewhere) can help with DHT if that's the issue.

However, I think long hair on men, even if it's thinning in some areas, is still awesome.

I am not being rude here, dont get my wrong, but I beg to differ.
My brother and I have the same father. Different mothers though.
His moms side has NOT ONE, not one single head of hair that is in any way shape or form bald...anywhere. Not one person is bald. At all. Not even thinning, receding. NOTHING. They all have thick amazing, flowing strong hair. Not one lick of bald whatsoever...No one in the family line is bald at all. There is simply no baldness to speak of anywhere.
My dad is pretty darn bald though, and so is my brother. I am certain he got the bald from our dad.

[raingirl]

Odd. Back in university in our genetics class we were taught that baldness is X-linked, which means that only women can carry the gene and pass it on to their sons.

Then again, it's a slightly more than 50% chance of getting the most common x-linked genes for male pattern baldness (4 out of 7 chance I think it was - 57%). So...maybe his mother was a carrier of the gene passed on by her mother, but none of the other men in the family got the gene themselves. I guess it's possible?

Also, genetics has come a long way in the 15 years since I went to University, so it could have changed.... And there are other types of baldness that aren't related to male pattern.

Or was that Y-linked.... my brain is fuzzy today. The one that women have that men don't.

[akilina]

Odd. Back in university in our genetics class we were taught that baldness is X-linked, which means that only women can carry the gene and pass it on to their sons.

Then again, it's a slightly more than 50% chance of getting the most common x-linked genes for male pattern baldness (4 out of 7 chance I think it was - 57%). So...maybe his mother was a carrier of the gene passed on by her mother, but none of the other men in the family got the gene themselves. I guess it's possible?

Also, genetics has come a long way in the 15 years since I went to University, so it could have changed.... And there are other types of baldness that aren't related to male pattern.
I guess I just never really know what to believe. Some say its from the moms, some say its from the dads. I feel like you get it where you get it. I didn't think it really mattered what side but if that gene was there, youre doomed :D
I don't really mean doomed though..some women love a bald man.
You also made me think of something..I am sure my brother got the bald from my dad a little but, but at the same time he wears a thick news boy cap. No room for breathing...for a while there he had this nasty crusty crud fungus on his scalp and it made even more of his hair fall out! He would get out of the shower, and throw his cap on asap. So he totally did that one to himself. He shaved his head every single day and let his head breathe and it finally went away. Totally weird though -_-

[Bookloverlori]

Oh I feel so bad for him. I have thinning hair and I share the same fear, long hair in the back, super thin on top. My own poor Hubby doesn't have long hair, but between 35-40, his hair has really receded and he's getting a monk circle at the top. He's fighting tooth and nail with rogaine and babying his hair. Hopefully, it won't get any worse. Crossing fingers!