Hair Loss in Teenagers!

This new article about hair loss in teenagers in Pediatric News caught my attention. The rates of hair loss have exponentially increased in children, with the most common age of diagnosis being 12.5 years old. That's not even a teenager yet. Hair loss in children requires a multi-prong approach, multiple labs to be done, including vitamin D, micronutrient labs, thyroid, insulin levels, hormone levels, in order to identify the root cause of the hair loss. However, we want to catch hair loss before the hair has fallen out. This is where red light therapy can come in very handy because a low-level light therapy has been shown to help keep the hair follicles in the growth phase rather than going into the resting phase and then shedding.