Re: Well water & Falling hair: is there a connection?

[Guest guest]

How long have you been on the well water? What area are you in?

It could be a lot of things, but if you are certain that the hair is coming from

multiple people in the household and if the change to well water coincides, it

would certainly be worth a trial off of it. There could be anything in there.

FWIW - I had alopecia in my mid-twenties but turned it around, so hopefully that

is some comfort. I'm now in my thirties and have a full head of hair with no

sign of thinning. I'm not sure *what* I did to reverse it as I took a sort of

shotgun approach. Changed my water, stopped soy, stopped vegetable oils, etc..

Something worked. If the water seems to coincide with when this started, I'd

really encourage you to change your water supply and see what happens.

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> We are using well water for the home, and see recently more than before hair

fall. Could there be a co-relation to well water, in which we add water

softener, to thinning of hair and falling?

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> -Dan

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[Guest guest]

I have read that there is a correlation between heart disease and water

softeners because of magnesium elimination. My SIL just put in a water softener

because their well water was high in iron which could be toxic to the body.

Maybe you should get your water tested first before spending unneccessary

dollars.

I would rule out under-active thyroid first. Take you Basal temps before

arising then see if they rise during the day.

Joan

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> We are using well water for the home, and see recently more than before hair

fall. Could there be a co-relation to well water, in which we add water

softener, to thinning of hair and falling?

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> -Dan

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[Guest guest]

We had troubles with wells twice. Once the water was under a horse pasture and

fissures in the rocks were letting horse urine into our drinking water.

The other time (different place), there was a strip mine at the bottom of the

ridge we lived on, along with a lot of other folks. It had filled in with

water, and was really close to the aquifer that our wells all tapped into.

During a drought I saw barrels with the skull and crossbones on them at the

bottom of the strip mines - someone had been dumping there. A few years later

almost all the neighbors had someone in their home with cancer, rare types like

brain cancer. Now I think of wells as risky - you don't know what could be

getting into what you're drinking!

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> > We are using well water for the home, and see recently more than before hair

fall. Could there be a co-relation to well water, in which we add water

softener, to thinning of hair and falling?

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> > -Dan

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