Could a sun burn facilliate thinning?

[sphlanx2006]

It just hit me, but this summer, my sking under my hair was sun burned a couple of times. Well my hair was already thin enough to help sun penetrate and burn my skin. I was wondering though, could this sunburn facilliate additional thinning? Could it have "killed" some of my hair follicles?

Just wandering...

 

[The Gardener]

No. Follicles don't "die" like that.

 

[CCS]

the sun can hurt transplanted follicles, though, probably due to the change in healing and scaring that uv light can do to fresh wounds.

 

[UK1]

I shaved my head this summer as male pattern baldness was getting itchier than ever in the heat, I ended up burning my head.. the itching became so bad that it was almost unbearable.. I worried that I'd damaged my hair and since it has grown back it is definately much thinner, this could easily just be what I would've lost anyway though, I was going thru a particularly bad patch. Anyway.. I wouldn't have been suprised if someone had said that it was bad for the hair.

 

[bubka]

i am sure it does not help

 

[Polish]

I get sunburn on my scalp last summer.It wasn't a bad sunburn(tightness scalp) but my scalp was red.It doesn't cause hair loss in my case.

 

[TOMOMASTA]

You may want to check out hairsite.com ... they posted a study on photoaggraved dermatotis may well be linked to male pattern baldness... i believe its in the topical section...