Hi, Im am 35 Female. Last summer I started to have a swollen feeling near my tonsils. I have difficulty swallowing. I always use couph drops because its a relief for my swollen feeling. It doesn’t hurt, just feels swollen. A few months later around Sept, I noticed my hair getting really really dry. Now its falling out and has been since Dec. It falls out in handfulls everyday. I lost over 100 hairs in one day and this is a daily thing now. I went to the doctors, My ferriton level was the only thing out of range. Everything else is within normal limits. My ferriton is at 7 So Im on Iron suppliments as well as B12 and a Multivitamin. I had rapid heart rates, but I think its calmed down since the Iron therapy. The doctor told me to gargle with peroxide. She didn’t really focus too much on my throat problem, and actually she didn’t even look in my mouth. Could this be something else other than anemia? And could throat thing be the main reason that caused my hair to fall out? and why Im not getting the Iron I need?

Thank you for your time

Low iron indicates anemia may be present, a known cause of hair loss. Being sick brings on phyical and emotional stress which could lead to hair loss as well. The cause for iron deficiency could be from improper diet or even by worms and other blood born parasites (unlikely in North America). I can not comment on the topic of your throat problem and its relationship to hair loss.

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