If the average person loses 100 strands of hair a day why aren't we all bald?

Question

Lately I've been noticing that I have to clean out my comb every few days to keep it from being overly full of hair. I also have to clean out my shower drain after about a month's worth of showers. I read that the average person loses about 100 strands a day. First, how is that possible without becoming bald after a certain amount of time? And secondly, I have really long hair. If I did lose 100 strands a day, wouldn't it be reasonable to think that no one could keep long hair because it would all eventually fall out and all that would be left is what was growing back in it's place?

Answer 1

well we have millions and millions of hair on our head and we do lose around 100 pieces of hair a day. we lose most of them by just regularly brushing our hair. we lose that much hair and then some just fall out. keep in note that they fall out in different places so other hair goes on top of them and it looks like u didn't even lose any hair.but hair grown really fast it's supposed to grown at least 3 inches a month. that's why we girls have to get it trimmed. if u din't trim it u can have a chance of hair not growing fast and getting split ends.. i hope i helped.

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If the average person loses 100 strands of hair a day why aren't we all bald?
Lately I've been noticing that I have to clean out my comb every few days to keep it from being overly full of hair. I also have to clean out my shower drain after about a month's worth of showers. I read that the average person loses about 100 strands a day. First, how is that possible...

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100 Strands Of Hair

Answer 5

Because you have 100s of 1000s of hairs on your head and they are constantly growing. Therefore any hairs that you lose will eventually be made up for which is why we aren't all bald.

Answer 6

There's way too much hair on a human head for one to go bald, even with 100 lost hairs a day. Keep in mind, that's only on average. Some lose less than that a day. It's usually just dead hair falling out so that healthy hair can grow back in. Hair can grow surprisingly fast.

Answer 7

If you loose a hair a new one grows in it's place. so there's long hair that falls out and short hair grows in it's place but it all doesn't happen at once so the short hair gets longer befor anyone realizes that it's short. People have like a lot more than 100 hairs on their head. probably more like....idk a million? If you had a million CD's would you notice if you lost a hundred of them?

Answer 8

well, lets say hypothetically that you have one million strands of hair on your head. if you lose 100 a day without growing any new hair, that is one thousand days or just shy of three years before you go bald.

most hair will grow at a rate of about one inch every 1-2 months. so if you lose 3,000 strands of hair in one month, but all the rest of your hair gains one inch, you can see how and why we all need haircuts not hats.

Answer 9

because if you have healthy hair you might only lose like 20 strands a day...when my hair is very healthy i have only lost like five to 10 strands...if someone is losing a 100 strands a day then something is wrong...their hair is damaged or they lack vitamins such as bi vitamins....people may think they are losing 100..but one day actually count them and you will see you don't lose that much

Answer 10

You have to clean out the drain after a MONTH'S worth of showers? Man, I clean mine out almost every day. 100 strands of hair really isn't much in the grand scheme of things. Plus, they grow back. (Unless you're actually balding.)