Stress can lead to noticeable hair loss, usually months after a stressful situation occurs. This type of hair loss is ...

Shame fuels isolation for those with BFRBs. Learn how it impacts recovery and discover strategies for breaking the cycle, ...

In a shocking medical case, a 9-year-old girl from Muzaffarpur had to undergo surgery after doctors discovered a massive 1.5 kg ball of hair in her stomach. The child had been experiencing severe ...

Trichotillomania (TTM), commonly known as hair-pulling disorder, is a type of body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) that involves the compulsive pulling out of one's hair, leading to noticeable ...

These include pulling, picking, biting, or scraping one's hair, skin, or nails. The disorders include trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling), dermatillomania (compulsive skin picking ...

About 20 per cent of people with trichotillomania eat their hair after pulling it out, causing hairball like blockages to clog up their digestive tract. These hair masses can sometimes be ...

The unnamed child was admitted to hospital after suffering pain, with other symptoms including vomiting and feeling full up ...

Too-tight ponytails aren’t good for your hair. It’s common (but oft-overlooked) knowledge that excessively tight braiding, ...

For individuals with trichotillomania, a disorder characterized by recurrent hair-pulling that results in noticeable hair loss, NAC may offer some relief. NAC has been shown to modulate glutamate ...