60 second hair loss test?

[ILikeMyHair]

"60-Second Hair Count Test

In the study, researchers examined hair loss in 60 healthy men with no signs of male pattern baldness. Half were between the ages of 20 and 40 and the other half between ages 41 and 60.

 

Each of the men was given identical combs and instructed to wash their hair with the same brand of shampoo for three consecutive mornings. On the fourth, fifth, and sixth mornings, they were asked to comb hair forward over a towel or pillowcase of contrasting color for 60 seconds before shampooing and count the hairs shed.

 

The results showed younger men shed an average of 10.2 per 60-second test and the older men shed an average of 10.3 hairs per test.

 

"When repeated six months later in both age groups, the hair counts did not change much. The hair counts were repeated and verified by a trained investigator, with results similar to those of subject hair counts," write the researchers.

 

Researchers say that low variability between tests over time and across age groups suggests that the 60-second hair count is a simple and practical tool for assessing normal vs. problem hair loss in men.

 

They say the next steps are to verify the test in women and in people with male pattern baldness and other forms of problem hair loss to determine hair count measures.

 

Main Findings:

Subjects aged 20-40 shed an average of 10.2 hairs (with a range of 0-78)

Subjects aged 41-60 shed an average of 10.3 hairs (with a range of 0-43)"

 

Has anybody done this and seen their results? I have a feeling that I lose too many hair per day than most normal people. I lose about 30-35 hair while I shampoo then during combing I lose about 20 hair everyday. Then randomly I would see 1-2 hair strands in a day just fall off onto my ear or my laptop sometimes. And when I run my hands through my hair I get about 5-6 hair in my fingers, but they don't keep falling out. They stop falling if I keep running my hands through them. The strange thing is this has been happening for 4-5 years since I started keeping track, but my hair doesn't seemed to have changed too much. So I thought maybe it's normal for people to lose this much because of that 100 hair loss a day estimate which came out of nowhere. Now this new test shows that the average for most people is 10 hair a day. However, it did say that some subjects got upto 78 hair falling. All these subjects were supposed to be people with no hair loss and at NW1. So I guess some people do lose a lot more hair than others and still maintain their hair? Or these guys were just starting to go bald. I think it's the former. What do you guys think and did you guys do the test? What were your results?

[TakingThePlunge]

I have to admit that I've never heard of this test. However, now that I've Googled it I see that there is quite a lot of information available about it. I may give it a try. I'm also going to share it on our Hair Loss Learning Center News blog.

 

Thanks for the information!

[Dolph1969]

Very narrow margins with the variables.

[ILikeMyHair]

So i did the test and I as I was expecting I got much higher than the average. My result was 22 hair shed during the 60 second combing. I all the way from the back to the front of the scalp and also combed the sides over a white sink so I saw all the fallen hair.

 

I would be interested to see others' results