What makes your hairs white at the age of 15?

Question

I'm 15 years old but I have few white hairs. It makes me feel bad. Any reasons why 15 years old get white hairs? What are the solutions to these hairs? How to get rid of em?

Answer 1

I got my first white/silver hairs at age 16-17. I freaked out! I tried to find out why it was happening and it turns out that it's all genetic. You can't get rid of them because they'll just grow back, so the only real option is to dye your hair. Chances are your mom won't let you do it at this age, but you can always ask. You can start out with a semi-permanant dye now and move on to a more permanent one when you're older.
If you only have one or two, you can pluck them and it'll take a few months to grow back, but don't even bother if there are more hairs than that, or you'll end up bald! Sorry you're going through this, but don't worry. It's not a big deal. I'm 26 now and there's only a few sections of hair that are grey, but not completely noticeable. It will be a long time before I'm all grey.

Good luck!

Answer 2

It's stupid how people make fun of others for the smallest thing, so don't worry about it. They make fun of you, but so what? Words really mean nothing until you let it get to you and you don't them as friends. You are who you are, and why is it their business anyway? And if they make fun of you for dying your hair, you have to think about why people dye their hair in the first place-- it's because they're not completely satisfied with their hair either! So what right do they have to pick on you? But growing white hair is part of your genetics. It's not something serious but there may be a slight mutation in your DNA which is coding for your white hair or at least the living period of the cells which pigment yuor hair. Normally pigment cells just die off as your get older hence the white. You can ask your parents of either one of them or their own parents had white hair at a young age though it won't really solve anything. Hang in there, people will eventually stop as they mature. I'm surprised 15 year olds still pick on others for such a minor thing. But surely, no one is immature enough to continue picking on you after high school.

Answer 3

Each hair on our heads is made up of two parts:

a shaft - the colored part we see growing out of our heads
a root - the bottom part, which keeps the hair anchored under the scalp
The root of every strand of hair is surrounded by a tube of tissue under the skin that is called the hair follicle. Each hair follicle contains a certain number of pigment cells. These pigment cells continuously produce a chemical called melanin that gives the growing shaft of hair its color of brown, blonde, red, and anything in between.

Melanin is the same stuff that makes our skin's color fair or darker. It also helps determine whether a person will burn or tan in the sun. The dark or light color of someone's hair depends on how much melanin each hair contains.

As we get older, the pigment cells in our hair follicles gradually die. When there are fewer pigment cells in a hair follicle, that strand of hair will no longer contain as much melanin and will become a more transparent color - like gray, silver, or white - as it grows. As people continue to get older, fewer pigment cells will be around to produce melanin. Eventually, the hair will look completely gray.

People can get gray hair at any age. Some people go gray at a young age - as early as when they are in high school or college - whereas others may be in their 30s or 40s before they see that first gray hair. How early we get gray hair is determined by our genes. This means that most of us will start having gray hairs around the same age that our parents or grandparents first did.

Gray hair is more noticeable in people with darker hair because it stands out, but people with naturally lighter hair are just as likely to go gray. From the time a person notices a few gray hairs, it may take more than 10 years for all of that person's hair to turn gray.

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/grownup/getting_older/gray_hair.html

FIVE WARNING SIGNALS THAT YOU WILL NOT REACH AGE 100:

1. White, gray, or silver hair at an early age. This indicates a copper deficiency; the elastic fibers in the body and arteries will break down. Advice: take copper in colloidal form.

http://www.askdrhelen.com/shownotes/DR-WALLACH_new.html

Answer 4

Probably genetics. You can try dyeing your hair, or talking to your doctor. If they are all in about the same spot you can dye a white streak for a kinda "Cruella DeVille" type of thing. Very nice.

Answer 5

Genetics?

Answer 6

Sounds like ya been out in the Sun for a lil too long

Answer 7

genetics causes them, hair dye will cover them up

Answer 8

genes, stress, unproper hair dying.......

but i kno this kid, he had white hairs when he was 6 years old

Answer 9

so rare,its because of ecces use of cosmatices but basically its a disease or inherated

Answer 10

genetics