I've been wondering, if you are really stressed out, can your hair turn white, not gray, white?
2006-09-08 17:53:42 · 15 answers · asked by Illuminated 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Yes -- I have too much knowledge of this topic. Extreme stress can cause it. So can heredity (premature grey in family). So too can hyperthyroidism. You have a nice selection of possibilities here --
2006-09-10 16:29:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a horrifcly painfull surgery when I was 30 during which I awakened while they were still operating. My eyes were taped shut and I was strapped down to the table. All I could do was try to scream and wiggle a bit. The screams came out as high pitched moans due to intubation. When I awoke the next day I had a white streak from roots to tip in the front of my hair. So IMO extreme stress or trauma can turn hair white.
2015-08-30 07:36:21 · answer #2 · answered by purrkittyk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people have hair so pale that it wouldn't turn grey even from aging, it would just go directly to white, so I assume that these people could also have their hair turn white from stress/trauma. (I can understand how stress could cause new hair to grow out grey or whhite, but how does it cause hair that has already formed -- the stuff at the ends of a 8-inch strand, for example -- to change too? Hair is DEAD, and stress shouldn't be able to affect it once it is formed. Can anyone explain that one?)
2006-09-09 10:24:36 · answer #3 · answered by Red 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm not sure if it was stress, but my old maths teacher (he was actually pretty young), well his hair turned grey over night, but that was more the resultof a trauma because his brither and father were both killed by lightning while they were out in the fields! It was really awful! But that was trauma-related, haven't heard of it stress-related.. maybe though.. but it IS possible for hair to turn white over night!
2006-09-08 18:29:11 · answer #4 · answered by blithe_vow 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Stress doesn't turn your hair white. Yet, stress can make your hair fall out.
2006-09-08 18:01:33 · answer #5 · answered by Suzy J 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, i think stress can do that. I have alot of grey hair and i am a very stressful person.
2006-09-09 02:02:59 · answer #6 · answered by ~*á?¦Kileaá?¦*~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I've know a couple people that it has happened to in streaks or sections not their whole head though
2006-09-12 16:30:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, genetics is what turns your hair white.
2006-09-08 17:56:09 · answer #8 · answered by Lov'n IT! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Stress will cause white hair to. If you don'r like it, go to ur hairdresser and she will color it for you.
2006-09-08 17:59:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
gray, but not snow white
2006-09-08 17:57:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋