Brenda,

What about C-sections (as in surgery interrupting the body's normal
processes and leading to some inadvertant results)?  I only suggest this as
I had surgery last year and began to experience hair loss ... handfuls of
hair every time I washed it.  I asked the anesthesiologists and they said,
"Don't see why it would be the anesthesia," and the surgeon, who said, "
Don't know why the surgery itself should affect that."  Finally, when I
think I had whined to everyone at work about it, one nurse who used to work
the surgical floor said it happens to surgical patients all the time!  She
told me to ask my hairdresser, who said I could expect to experience the
hair loss for up to 6 months and that it was very common!  If the hair loss
were directly related to breastfeeding I would think we would see more of
it. (But I can see how it might be estrogen related ... hmm.)

Jean Macomber, RN, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant
The Family Birth Place
St. Luke's Hospital
Jacksonville, Florida  32216
904-296-5212

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>   5. Breastfeeding and hair loss
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> From:    Brenda Phipps <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Breastfeeding and hair loss
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> Can anyone on the list come up with a reason why this would occur? It must
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> be related to estrogen levels,  but I am sure you all can enlighten me in
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> other directions as well.
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> Thanks!
> Brenda Phipps, BS, IBCLC
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