Pulling out hair – WRassman,M.D. BaldingBlog
I’ve developed a significant anxiety around accidentally pulling scalp hair out (I don’t mean hair that has reached the end of its cycle and is meant to come out, I mean active anagen hair. It can happen, for instance if hair gets caught in something like a zipper). To help put this phobia into perspective, do you have any insight on the likelihood that accidentally pulled hair grows back? If I were to reach up and pluck a healthy, anagen scalp hair, which percentage of the time will it grow back? I’m aware that repeated pulling out the same hair can cause permanent damage, I mean pulling that occurs only once.
If you pull out a healthy terminal hair once, it will come back. If you keep pulling out the same hair or hairs, they eventually will not come back.