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Article: Dr Miriam Stoppard's Health Focus Today: FEMALE HAIR LOSS How to cope with losing your locks.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2003
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Byline: Miriam Stoppard
THE average person has about 100,000 scalp hairs and generally loses between 20 and a 100 hairs each day.
In its growing phase, a hair will grow to a certain length before entering a resting phase, dropping out and being replaced by another.
Some parts of the scalp lose hair more readily than others, giving rise to the standard type of male baldness which can affect women too - especially after the menopause.
This week Miriam looks at hair loss affecting women.
ALOPECIA - the absence of hair from areas of the body where it normally ...