February 13 2009, 8:35 am PT | Posted in: Hair Loss Causes
Hello Doctor
Any relation between cell phone usage and hairloss ?
Best Regards
Nope, unless you go way over your allotted minutes and rip your hair out when you see your monthly bill.
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Doc,
I have an area above my right ear where the hair is about 75% thinner — the hair itself, not the coverage, though that’s thinner too. There is also a substantial amount of grey hair here, but not the thick scraggly kind, these are also finer than the rest of my hair. Of note — I don’t have any grey hairs anywhere else but this area. No one in my family appears to have a similar condition. The only thing I can attribute it to is cell phone usage. I only hold the phone to my right ear, and while I don’t spend all day on the phone, I do take 20-30 calls/day. I’m interested in your comments.
Thanks — Rob
Most people seem to ignore this topic, but it bothers me that, at 25, I’m noticing lots of hair fall out when taking a shower. I’m not supposed to go bald according to my mother’s father (my grandpa on my mom’s side) who has a full head of hair and is currently 79, and in males, this is how the baldness gene is genetically transfered. My hair looks like it’s all there still, just the texture of it feels like you can feel the shape of the skull a lot easier than say 2-3 years ago. I have been using the cell phone since then a lot and (apprx 30mins to 2hrs daily), today my friend who is probably the 100th person, tells me that cell phones cause cancer not only to the brain but to the vital organs as well. I was always wondering that if you’re hearing all these news about cell antenna waves giving off ultra high frequency microwaves and how hazardous they are to the brain, wouldn’t they be just as hazardous to our vitals such as reproductive organs, breasts, hair folicles, etc. I mean they do penetrate organism cell functions, disrupting the harmony of the organism as well as cell mutation in the long run. This only makes sense, because I’ve been diagnosed with hypothyroidism on top of everything 2 years ago, and since i do not like taking synthetic drugs, i took up the use of a natural remedy simply known as kelp, which has a high source of iodine required by the thyroid gland to function properly. I am now wondering if the cell phone antenna had anything to with it as well. I know hair loss is common in people with thyroid problems, but mine isn’t quite falling out like it’s balding, it would fall out in abnormal amounts then go into a somewhat resting period where it’s below normal hair loss per day. And when my hair gets caught in places, it feels more sensitive as well leading to the fact that it’s frail and in bad health. I also noticed hairs breaking all over my scalp, sides, back, crown, and any hair dresser or hair specialist i talk to cannot detect any signs of baldness, all they say is that it’s a little unhealthy due to lack of vitamins or possibly lifestyle habbits…another thing that triggered me to believe that it’s the microwaves doing the work. I am not certain about any of this, but rather confused, and my thyroid’s TSH levels are eitehr normal or off-the wall, meanwhile the kelp i’ve been taking for the bast 4 months is a very high dosage of iodine, which is enough to boost the TSH levels to a normal level as long as I follow a normal consistant diet to support the daily iodine injestion. I’m probably going to avoid the cell phone from now on as much as possible, and use a long chorded simple earpiece w/o any bluetooth, which by the way is another hazardous piece of technology. I’ll post results hopefully within the next 6 months, to see if my hair regains life. Hope some of you can relate to this. Cell phones are a disease along with anything wireless these days because humanity has been so spoiled by modern technology, we’ll be seeing lots of cancer patients. I’ve ignored this before when i heard it on the news and from my parents who still read news articles in newspapers and watch tv news. But doing some research myself and then relating it to certain radioactive events globally, I have come to think of it that microwaves really do have a long term effect on an organism.
AK,
You should unplug your computer and put it in the closet. I am sure it, along with other technology, are the causes of all of your problems.
I agree that cell phone usage can cause hair loss. I am a long time avid cell phone user and not only is my hair thin an missing on the left side where I use my cell phone the skin on my ear also has a burnt appearance from the radiation. If any one including a doctor tells you different they are wrong.
I just read a short article on CNN Health about cell phones causing cancer. It was unnerving figuring how much the average person relies on their cell phone daily. This however, got me thinking. In the past few years(since I began using a cell phone regularly in 2006) I have observed an alarmingly increased amount of hair loss above my right ear, where I hold my cell phone. It is only one one side. I am a 29 year old female. I then put all these in the search engine and have found many posts about such occurences. I truly hope some scientist somewhere will do more research on this topic.
I just read an article on CNN Health about how cell phones increase cancer rates. The average American, no doubt, would find this alarming with as much as they rely on their mobile. However, as a 29 year old female, I have been experiencing an alarming rate of hair loss just above my right ear and only on that side - where I hold my cell phone. After reading this article I am now begining to suspect, that “yes” the cell phone may in someway be responsible for this. I found not only this site, but many sites with others experiencing similar conditions. Be wary friends. Our technology has come upon us so fast that we don’t even understand all the side effects of it yet.