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Hair loss can have many causes. Find out what the most common causes are and what you can do about it.
Severe weight loss due to strict or prolonged diets can lead to a lack of nutrients and stress for the body. This disrupts the hair cycle and often leads to diffuse hair loss over the entire head, usually a few weeks or months after the diet. The hair foll...
What can help with hair loss in children and teenagers?
In children and adolescents, hair loss is often caused by alopecia areata or, following an infection, diffuse hair loss. Typical symptoms include sudden bald patches or increased hair loss across the entire scalp. Alopecia areata is usually caused by autoi...
Hair loss & thyroid gland. What advice is there on this?
Thyroid disorders can promote hair loss as they affect the hormone balance and the hair cycle. Hair growth usually only normalizes months after thyroid levels have stabilized. However, several factors often interact, e.g. hormones, medication or genetic pr...
I am losing hair due to a viral infection, what can I do?
Feverish infections (e.g. flu or COVID-19) can trigger diffuse hair loss. This is usually caused by stress on the body due to fever or inflammatory reactions, which causes many hairs to enter the resting and shedding phase prematurely. Delayed hair loss is...
I have small bald patches on my head. What can I do?
Hair loss that causes bald patches can have several causes, such as diffuse or circular hair loss (alopecia areata). A dermatological examination is important. As long as hair follicles are still active, locally applied hair loss remedies can be helpful. T...
What should you do if you're experiencing hair loss caused by scalp problems?
Scalp problems such as eczema, inflammation, dandruff, or autoimmune reactions can trigger hair loss because they irritate the hair follicles or temporarily disrupt hair growth. Typical symptoms include itching, redness, flaking, or clearly defined bald pa...
Does Thymuskin help to cure the cause of hair loss?
Organic causes of hair loss, such as hormonal changes or autoimmune processes, cannot be cured by Thymuskin. The preparations act locally at the hair root and can help to reduce hair loss, activate hair growth and stabilize the hair status. Consistent and ...
Hair loss on the scalp and excessive body hair are not mutually exclusive. This is often caused by the hair follicles reacting differently to hormones (especially DHT): while the hair on the scalp reacts sensitively and thins out, body hair may actually gr...
How can Thymuskin be used to support a hair transplant?
After a hair transplant, the transplanted grafts must first take root and the scalp must regenerate. During this phase, redness, scabbing, and temporary shock loss may occur. Thymuskin is used as part of a 4-step system: to prevent scabbing, care for and s...
What should you do if you experience hair loss caused by medication?
Medications can cause diffuse hair loss, for example, through chemotherapy, anti-hormone therapies, or certain blood pressure and immune system medications. Typical symptoms include increased hair loss across the entire scalp or delayed hair growth, as act...
What is diffuse hair loss, or chronic telogen effluvium?
Diffuse hair loss, also known as chronic telogen effluvium, is characterized by uniform hair loss across the entire scalp. It is usually caused by a disruption in the hair growth cycle, in which many hairs prematurely enter the resting and shedding phases....
I have to undergo chemotherapy. What can help me with hair loss?
Chemotherapy can lead to severe, usually diffuse hair loss and even complete hair loss. This is caused by cytostatic drugs that attack rapidly dividing cells - including hair root cells. Hair loss often begins a few weeks after the start of treatment. Norm...
I don't have hair loss, but my hair is thinning more and more over time. Can Thymuskin help me here?
Yes, Thymuskin can help if the hair becomes thinner and thinner over time. Hair loss processes often cause hair follicles to gradually shrink, regrowing hair becomes finer and the scalp becomes more visible. Thymuskin cannot eliminate this cause, but it ca...
What should you do if you're experiencing fibrotic (scarring) hair loss?
Fibrosing (scarring) hair loss is caused by inflammatory processes in the hair follicle, such as in lichen planopilaris or frontal fibrosing alopecia. The inflammation destroys the hair root, so that hair no longer grows back in the affected areas. Typical...
I suffer from increased hair loss every spring, which usually lasts until the summer. What helps?
If hair loss occurs regularly in spring and lasts until summer, this may be related to hormonal fluctuations, changes in the hair cycle or seasonal influences. Typical is diffuse hair loss over the entire head, which often occurs in phases and later stabil...