Causes of Hair loss
April 27th, 2010
This section discusses 540 medical conditions causing Hair loss. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Hair loss:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Hair loss. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.
- Baldness
- Male pattern baldness
- Female pattern baldness
- Hereditary baldness
- Normal aging
- Menopause
- Nervous hair pulling – usually in children
- Excessively tight hair accessories
- Excessive shampoo or hair-drying
- Childbirth – hair gets stronger during pregnancy and falls out after birth.
- Poor diet
- High fever
- Chronic fever (see Fever)
- Excessive dieting
- Alopecia
- Alopecia areata
- Telogen alopecia
- Anogen alopecia
- Skin conditions
- Skin injury
- Eczema
- Dermatitis
- Burns
- Psoriasis
- Hormonal disorders
- Thyroid disorder
- Hypothyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Pituitary disorder
- Hypopituitarism
- Iron deficiency anemia
- AIDS – in the later stages
- Autoimmune disease
- Scalp disorder
- Scalp fungal infection
- Tinea capitis
- Psoriasis – if affecting the scalp
- Radiation therapy
- Chemotherapy
- Certain medications
- Eczematous inflammation
- Contact dermatitis
- Bacterial folliculitis
- Folliculitis decalvans
- Lupus erythematosus
- Lichen planus
- Morphoea
- Hot-combing of hair in negroes
- Radiotherapy
- Lupus vulgaris
- Pseudo-pelade
- Scleroderma morphoea
- Secondary syphilis
- Trichotillomania
- Traction alopecia
- Regular tight ponytails
- Emotional shock
- Alopecia universalis
- Vitiligo
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Myxoedema
- Pernicious anaemia
- Addison’s disease
- Androgenic alopecia
- Ethnic hair plaiting
- Regular hair braiding
- Regular use of hair rollers
- Telogen effluvium
- Cessation of contraceptive pill
- Febrile illness (see Fever)
- Blood loss
- An operation
- Myocardial infarction
- Stroke
- Rapid weight loss
- Bereavement
- Psychological stress
- Exposure to cytotoxics
- Thallium poisoning
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Ageing
Causes of Hair loss listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible causes of Hair loss as a symptom include:
- Ablepharon-macrostomia syndrome
- Acrokeratosis paraneoplastica of Bazex
- Adrenal cortex insufficiency
- Albendazole
- Alopecia areata
- Alopecia mucinosa
- Amiodarone
- Atopic dermatitis
- Autoimmune adrenalitis
- Biotinidase deficiency
- Canada-Cronkhite syndrome
- Cantu syndrome
- Chagas’ disease
- Cidofovir
- Clomifene
- Combined oral contraceptive pill
- Cutaneous T cell lymphoma
- Danazol
- Dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis
- Dubowitz syndrome
- Eflornithine
- Erythroderma
- Gestrinone
- Haemochromatosis
- Hallermann-Streiff syndrome (HSS)
- Heparin
- Hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
- Holocarboxylase synthase deficiency
- Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
- Hypopituitarism
- Hypothyroidism
- Hypotrichosis simplex
- Incontinentia pigmenti
- Interferon alpha
- Irinotecan
- Iron deficiency
- Keratosis follicularis spinulosa decalvans cum ophiasi
- Keratosis pilaris
- Leflunomide
- Lepromatous leprosy
- Marie Unna hereditary hypotrichosis
- Mitoxantrone
- Monilethrix
- Myositis ossificans progressiva
- Orofaciodigital syndrome type 1
- Papular atrichia
- Parry-Romberg syndrome
- Proguanil
- Proximal myotonic myopathy
- Pseudoprogeria syndrome
- Psoriasis
- Rosselli-Gulienetti syndrome
- Schopf-Schulz-Passarge syndrome
- Secondary syphilis
- Selenium
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Tinea capitis
- Topotecan
- Total congenital alopecia
- Traction alopecia
- Tribavirin
- Trichotillomania
- Tuberculoid leprosy
- Valproic acid
- Vasculitis
- Vincristine
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin D dependent rickets type 2a
- Vitamin H deficiency
- Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome
- Werner’s syndrome
- Zinc deficiency
- (Source – Diseases Database)
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