Curiousity - Mallen Streak

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My family has lots of early gray hair and balding though no Mallen

streaks. My mom's family esp. has lots of allergies and probably lots

of autoimmune stuff (plenty in the immed. family). I assume there's a

Graves' type, though people also talk of having actual Graves'

symptoms long before becoming hyperthyroid. There was also a poll

showing lots of us are redheads.

In retrospect, I'm sorry no allopathic or holistic doctor ever

thought enough about my family background and my reaction to an

iodide x-ray contrast dye to point out that I was probably

susceptible to Graves' and should avoid iodine.

Best wishes,

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In graves_support , Conner <aconner@a...>

wrote:

I have it for a long time. Yet I've just been diagnosed. So does that

mean

I've had active Graves' before and didn't know it?

At 09:24 AM 9/7/2003, you wrote:

>I know Grave's wihen it is active is supposed to make your hair turn

grey.

>Is that the stress, or is it something chemical?

>

>I've had a grey streak (Mallen Streak) like Mortisha (?) (or pepe le

peu!)

>since I was 10 - a grey/white about one and a half inches across

comes from

>the front of my hair where it parts. Have any other

>Grave's people here got a grey streak?

>

>DAWN ROSE