Is your hair falling in clumps every time you wash or comb the hair" It’s that time of the year when a majority of women experience hair fall and they cannot pinpoint exactly what’s going wrong with their hair" It’s believed that a person loses up to 100 strands in a day, and it’s absolutely normal, but when you start noticing bald spots on the crown of the head and hair clogging up shower drains, then there’s an issue which needs urgent addressing. In this post, we list out 14 big reasons your hair keeps falling out so that you can take timely action.

The Hair Growth Cycle:
Every hair undergoes three stages during its growth – anagen, catagen, and telogen.

Anagen ? This is the growth phase and it would last an average of 3 to 5 years, sometimes even 7 years. A hair can grow up to 18 to 30 inches during this phase.
Catagen ? This phase begins at the end of anagen phase. At this time, the hair stops growing.

Telogen ? This is the resting phase when hair falls out of its follicles. The follicles then remain dormant for 3 months and then the anagen phase restarts.
It?s an interesting fact that every strand has a different growth cycle and they do not grow out and fall from the scalp uniformly or at the same time. On an average, around 100 hair strands fall out of the follicles after reaching the telogen phase, and it is quite normal to lose that number of hair each day, nothing to be alarmed about. Hair fall can be termed abnor...