an unseen force
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I'm a bit concerned for my friend. I hadn't seen him it two weeks, then he comes over and I notice he is suffering from extreme hairloss [he is 21, as am I]. I'm talking two weeks earlier, looks just fine. In fourteen days you can't possible loose that much hair. He's balding on the top, straight up. Here's the topic, what the hell does that to a man over two weeks? He tells me the two other people he lives with are suffering from the same thing. I told him that it could be some kind of gas-leak, or something he's been exposing himself to, but he swears he hasn't been working with any pesticides or anything. What do you think people? What could cause three different men of three different ages to loose their hair that fast? It's been a few months since then, and it hasn't got anyworse. Here's the kicker though; it hasn't got any better either. I would assume that if you were exposing yourself to something that was causing you to loose your hair cancer style, that you would grow it back after cutting yourself off from whatever it is. I am seriously perplexed and nonplussed here :?: Any ideas?
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Radiation poisoning can cause hair loss, it's why people going through chemotherapy loose their hair (It's not the cancer, it's the treatment). Stress can make people loose their hair, but not as fast as you're saying. Either way these guys need to see a doctor and get out of the house, maybe rent a Geiger counter.
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lemiel wrote...
Radiation poisoning can cause hair loss, it's why people going through chemotherapy loose their hair (It's not the cancer, it's the treatment). Stress can make people loose their hair, but not as fast as you're saying. Either way these guys need to see a doctor and get out of the house, maybe rent a Geiger counter.I concur.
If it was just one person, that'd be one thing, but if three guys living together all lose their hair, it seems serious. Something environmental must be the cause, and it could end up killing them.
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ShaggyJebus wrote...
lemiel wrote...
Radiation poisoning can cause hair loss, it's why people going through chemotherapy loose their hair (It's not the cancer, it's the treatment). Stress can make people loose their hair, but not as fast as you're saying. Either way these guys need to see a doctor and get out of the house, maybe rent a Geiger counter.I concur.
If it was just one person, that'd be one thing, but if three guys living together all lose their hair, it seems serious. Something environmental must be the cause, and it could end up killing them.
I agree as well. It's very unlikely that three people who live in the same place would develope the same problem at the same rate and it would be unrealated. So something in teir environment is most likely. Or something one of them picked up at a job or just out and brought back to the house.
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who knows if what happened to your friend is caused by some kind of new disease/virus/bacteria/whatchamacallit.....
contact your doctor,NOW!
contact your doctor,NOW!
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You said that they're living together??...That's gotta be a problem caused by the Shampoo they're sharing or somekind of Hair Tonic, or stuffs...
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Shinichi Miyamoto wrote...
You said that they're living together??...That's gotta be a problem caused by the Shampoo they're sharing or somekind of Hair Tonic, or stuffs...same answer......
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Shinichi Miyamoto wrote...
You said that they're living together??...That's gotta be a problem caused by the Shampoo they're sharing or somekind of Hair Tonic, or stuffs...that's a bit of a stretch. Unless the Shampoo was tainted somehow. And even then over the span of weeks, a group of guys sharing a bottle of Shampoo would use it up pretty quickly.
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I think the whole thing is freaky. I can't get the dude to go to a doctor or something cause he's a [dumbass] stubborn individual. I know somethings' amuck I tell you!
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ShaggyJebus wrote...
[quote="lemiel"]Something environmental must be the cause, and it could end up killing them.
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alexanderthenine wrote...
I'm a bit concerned for my friend. I hadn't seen him it two weeks, then he comes over and I notice he is suffering from extreme hairloss [he is 21, as am I]. I'm talking two weeks earlier, looks just fine. In fourteen days you can't possible loose that much hair. He's balding on the top, straight up. Here's the topic, what the hell does that to a man over two weeks? He tells me the two other people he lives with are suffering from the same thing. I told him that it could be some kind of gas-leak, or something he's been exposing himself to, but he swears he hasn't been working with any pesticides or anything. What do you think people? What could cause three different men of three different ages to loose their hair that fast? It's been a few months since then, and it hasn't got anyworse. Here's the kicker though; it hasn't got any better either. I would assume that if you were exposing yourself to something that was causing you to loose your hair cancer style, that you would grow it back after cutting yourself off from whatever it is. I am seriously perplexed and nonplussed here :?: Any ideas?ONTOPIC:
Hormonal problems may cause hair loss. If your thyroid gland is overactive or underactive, your hair may fall out. This hair loss usually can be helped by treatment thyroid disease. Hair loss may occur if male or female hormones, known as androgens and estrogens, are out of balance. Correcting the hormone imbalance may stop your hair loss.
Many women notice hair loss about 3 months after they've had a baby. This loss is also related to hormones. During pregnancy, high levels of certain hormones cause the body to keep hair that would normally fall out. When the hormones return to pre-pregnancy levels, that hair falls out and the normal cycle of growth and loss starts again.
Some medicines can cause hair loss. This type of hair loss improves when you stop taking the medicine. Medicines that can cause hair loss include blood thinners (also called anticoagulants), medicines used for gout, medicines used in chemotherapy to treat cancer, vitamin A (if too much is taken), birth control pills and antidepressants.
Certain infections can cause hair loss. Fungal infections of the scalp can cause hair loss in children. The infection is easily treated with antifungal medicines.
Finally, hair loss may occur as part of an underlying disease, such as lupus or diabetes. Since hair loss may be an early sign of a disease, it is important to find the cause so that it can be treated.
Cited from: http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/men/general/081.html
(the internet is my doctor 8) )
OFFTOPIC: I know of a force that cant be seen... gravity
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braintist wrote...
alexanderthenine wrote...
I'm a bit concerned for my friend. I hadn't seen him it two weeks, then he comes over and I notice he is suffering from extreme hairloss [he is 21, as am I]. I'm talking two weeks earlier, looks just fine. In fourteen days you can't possible loose that much hair. He's balding on the top, straight up. Here's the topic, what the hell does that to a man over two weeks? He tells me the two other people he lives with are suffering from the same thing. I told him that it could be some kind of gas-leak, or something he's been exposing himself to, but he swears he hasn't been working with any pesticides or anything. What do you think people? What could cause three different men of three different ages to loose their hair that fast? It's been a few months since then, and it hasn't got anyworse. Here's the kicker though; it hasn't got any better either. I would assume that if you were exposing yourself to something that was causing you to loose your hair cancer style, that you would grow it back after cutting yourself off from whatever it is. I am seriously perplexed and nonplussed here :?: Any ideas?ONTOPIC:
Hormonal problems may cause hair loss. If your thyroid gland is overactive or underactive, your hair may fall out. This hair loss usually can be helped by treatment thyroid disease. Hair loss may occur if male or female hormones, known as androgens and estrogens, are out of balance. Correcting the hormone imbalance may stop your hair loss.
Many women notice hair loss about 3 months after they've had a baby. This loss is also related to hormones. During pregnancy, high levels of certain hormones cause the body to keep hair that would normally fall out. When the hormones return to pre-pregnancy levels, that hair falls out and the normal cycle of growth and loss starts again.
Some medicines can cause hair loss. This type of hair loss improves when you stop taking the medicine. Medicines that can cause hair loss include blood thinners (also called anticoagulants), medicines used for gout, medicines used in chemotherapy to treat cancer, vitamin A (if too much is taken), birth control pills and antidepressants.
Certain infections can cause hair loss. Fungal infections of the scalp can cause hair loss in children. The infection is easily treated with antifungal medicines.
Finally, hair loss may occur as part of an underlying disease, such as lupus or diabetes. Since hair loss may be an early sign of a disease, it is important to find the cause so that it can be treated.
Cited from: http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/men/general/081.html
(the internet is my doctor 8) )
OFFTOPIC: I know of a force that cant be seen... gravity
Considering that it was several people who all lived together, a coincidence is unlikely, so it's not likely to be a non-communicable disease, a hormonal problem, or side-effect, unless they share medications for some reason.
Also, I wonder if it's even really a problem any more, considering how much time has passed now.
Also, gravity being an unseen force is a matter of semantics. We can see it's effects. Which is probably why there is more empirical evidence to prove evolution that there is to prove gravity. People don't tend to doubt gravity.
although some people believe that gravity was just something invented by the Jews to get people to drop spare change...