A story about hairloss reveresed

[Bolhed]

This is a story from my family, and I always wanted to know the expert take on this, and I think here we have a lot of guys that really know the matter of hairloss so I hope you will find this story interesting.

So...Im going to try to make it as short as possible...

My cousin worked as a chef on a bulk carrier ship, for few years. He would occasionally come home after his contract expired and then after few months signed the contract again and went sailing for another 6 months or so.

Now, the problem was his teeth was givin him some trouble, so, few years ago he decided to make a stop before boarding for few months around the world and get his grills fixed here.

So - to cut to the point - he went to the private dentist, and fast forward - things got complicated and he caught the sepsis.

Yes. And he was in a coma. He lost his voice. He lost all his hair, totally bald. He lost about 50 or more pounds.

He's lungs were sustained by machine, he was practically run by machines, and after being in coma for I think 3 months, he came to full life.

Docs said it's a thru and thru miracle, that they dont know many of those cases that ended positively and that we should be thankful for him gettin away with it.

He recovered 100%. Doctors said when he was comatized, that even if he comes to normal again, he probably wont be able to speak or he will lose all his memory etc.

None of those happened. My cousin fully recovered after few months of home recovery. He gained his weight, his voice came back, and after 2-3 months it was as if nothing ever happened.

But thats beside the topic here - even tho its a very interesting and we all consider ourselves more then fortunate for it - I need to ask you this;

Before that happened to him, my cousin had semi-thin hair. Im not shure how to explain, hes 27 now..so...before sepsis and coma, his hair was thinning. Not much, but you could see whn he put gel on or when it was wet, you could clearly see its not NW0.

But - after the sepsis, hairloss and all those misfortunes ended...his hair recovered to total.

He has a pony tail now, no sides, full head of hair and all that.

So, anyone possibly could explain to me what happened there?

 

[metalheaddude]

So what you're saying is this guy had male pattern baldness before he suffered this illness and lost all his hair. Then he recovered from the illness and all his hair came back better than before he had the male pattern baldness?


Interesting...

 

[JayB]

i typed this a long time ago..my hair was kinda crappy when i got into an accident and spent two months in the hospital.

when i returned from the hospital, i got my first haircut and was amazed to see that my receded hair line, not the temples that are gone, but the hairline that was becoming thinner and more see through had thickened up intensely. aside from that, my entire head of hair had thickened up.

i posed this question when i got back from the hospital actually on this forum. I cant tell you what it was...the differences were my diet, i was only fed intravenously, no shower for 2 months, no heavy exertion other than walking around my floor in the hospital when i was able to get out of my bed, and no stress but straight sleeping and chilling off painkillers and intravenous for 2 months. whose to say. but i just wanted to point out that i did notice this and made a post about it a few years back.

 

[bubka]

It was not male pattern baldness, your body has evolved to not produce non essential proteins (hair) in the result of extreme stress, shock, sickness so that all energy can be concentrated on essential life functions. When you are very sick, or experience some type of traumatic injury or event, it is not uncommon to lose lots of hair, it is called a Telogen Effluvian:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telogen_effluvium

This interruption is often the result of trauma, such as chemotherapy, childbirth, puberty, major surgery, severe stress, and severe chronic illness. This trauma causes large numbers of hair follicles to enter a stage of telogen, or rest, simultaneously. After roughly 3 months of the telogen cycle the follicles will enter the anagen cycle, a stage of growth. The old hair will be forced out of the follicle by a new hair that is formed beneath it. This will cause a period of diffuse hair shedding. This condition is usually self correcting and can affect people of all ages.

So when things returned to normal, so did his hair. Again, this was not male pattern baldness.

 

[NicholasLim]

Hmm , but isn't he saying that his hair was kinda crappy when the accident happened and few months after the accident, his hair is in a way better state than when the accident happened

 

[Bolhed]

I think some of you misunderstood me.

My cousin had 26 when he got the sepsis. So - for...let's say 3-4 years prior to his accidents, I noticed his hair thinning, not because I was checking around for bald people - I had millions hairs on my head then - but because it was strange to me to see his head skin when we played basketball or when we went out and he would gel his hair.

So - it was not that full.

And after the sepsis - he got really full head of hair plus a pony tail etc.

That's what I'm sayin.

 

[bubka]

It may look that way, and it may be possible, but comparing in your mind, 4 years without side by side pictures in not quantitative. Also he does have a different hair style as well.

 

[Fanjeera]

Hospital's have so little stress in them, that you just forget your life and all your problems. The same happens with your hair .