Your Questions About Itchy Scalp After Sweating

Sharon asks…
Does anyone have itchy scalp accompanied with hair loss?
I am a young man in his mid-20′s. About 1 year ago, I started to experience very itchy scalp after sweating (especially after exercise) or eating spicy food accompanied with frontal hair loss. So far no doctor knows exactly why and they all tell me that it’s just early male pattern hair loss. It could be true but considering there’s no history of hair loss on either side of my family, I am thinking there may be something else to it.

Brian answers:
I would go to the doctor and ask for a referral to a dermatologist as it could have to do with the skin more than anything male pattern baldness shouldn’t make your scalp itch or anything like that so dermatologist!
Good luck hope they find out what is going on with you and you get your hair back and if not don’t stress chicks dig bald dudes! = )
i chucked a link in the source that lists many reasons for itchy scalp and hair loss

Mary asks…
Why do I have such an itchy scalp?!?
Today my scalp has been itching like crazy. I used a different shampoo tonight. I don’t have dandruff. My allergies have been really bad today, so I don’t know if that means anything. I play hockey, so my helmet makes me sweat alot. But I take a shower right after. Why is it so itchy?!

Brian answers:
Change back to your old shampoo or get a sensitive shampoo

Chris asks…
Can you spread jock itch to your scalp?
Awhile ago I had really itchy, rashy inner thighs after going to the gym. I wasn’t sure if it was sweat rash or some sort of fungal thing, but after putting lotrimin on it for a few days it cleared up. But now my scalp is really itchy and in just one spot. I was wondering if I could have transferred the fungus from my thighs to my scalp from scratching. There’s no flaking, it’s just really itchy!

Brian answers:
Hi,
Although I think you are having allergic reactions to something – IF the following symptoms would ever occur – I think the worst it might possibly be is deadly bacterial meningitis.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_Meningitis
“IF a rash is present, it may indicate a particular cause of meningitis; for instance, meningitis caused by meningococcal bacteria may be accompanied by a characteristic rash.”
“The MOST common symptoms of meningitis are headache and neck stiffness associated with fever, confusion or altered consciousness, vomiting, and an inability to tolerate light (photophobia) or loud noises (phonophobia). SOMETIMES, especially in small children, only nonspecific symptoms may be present, such as irritability and drowsiness.”
For further details see http://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/about/faq.html
Even so these are my thoughts of what ‘might’ be happening in almost any rash situation >>=> I have not been educated to be an M.D. – just a lifelong learner.
My own view from my own experiences is that rashes break out in the weaker parts of one’s skin, usually because of allergic reactions; OR perhaps due to fungus problems that more easily occur when one has too many carbs and fats in one’s daily calories, and therefore one has inadequate micro-nutrition absorption in the gut.
What I have learned is that my occasional stresses have sometimes caused me to do things or to eat things or to inhale things that have more toxins in them and that have then weakened my immune system, like drinking and eating caffeine chocolate or high carb foods and sweets.
It sounds like the malady may be a result of an allergic reaction to something that is toxic to the liver/kidneys. IF it is due to a toxin overload of the lymph system, you might then notice that when one gets hot – then a rash or itching will sometimes occur since the toxins are sweating out of one’s system ONTO an area of the skin that may be weaker and more easily irritated and inflamed.
ALSO whenever one’s immune system has become weakened the other problem can easily become a bacteria-fungus i.e. Ringworm and/or yeast infection thrush, but it is hard to tell what the root causes may be without seeing and learning the details about what one has been eating breathing and applying to the skin. SEE https://health.google.com/health/ref/Ringworm Monistat 7 will likely kill any fungus in a few days and better micro-nutrition will keep it killed and will also strengthen one’s liver lymph and kidney systems to be able to better handle both an allergic reaction AND/OR bacteria-fungus outbreaks with less suffering in the future.
IF you think it may be an allergic reaction – although it may be a difficult process – try to identify the triggers from cosmetics meds nuts milk grains other-foods chlorine-water-in-showers smoke perfume moldy-smells laundry-cleaners etcetera by discontinuing them until the symptoms stop and then beginning them again to see how the body reacts. If one is like me one may start to see allergies to many things because the root problem for me was a severely weakened liver from too many nutritional supplements that were toxic and I never knew it until it was almost too late.
After several months of pruritus Urticaria with blisters and skin fevers primarily at the back of my knees and thighs sometimes when I got warmer, that had begun during the colder months of November inside a gas heated low humidity home, I have identified enough of my own triggers to allow my legs to heal with only a super-minimal amount of coconut cream cut with de-chlorinated water rubbed over my skin and a minimal number of full body showers.
After several applications my lymph glands have become severely allergic to petrolatum products that are similar to Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, and common sense has now taught me that any petroleum products should always become toxic to anyone’s kidney and liver with repeated applications. I had flare-ups immediately after I had applied organic olive oil so I eventually changed to minimal amounts of coconut oil after I had used a minimal amount of a petrolatum steroid for a few days to allow my legs to heal up. I also have flareups when I eat over 150 calories of nuts and/or milk fats and/or oils, but these usually flare up about three hours after eating them, but the olive oil always took about five to thirty minutes to begin itching.
Skin diseases can always return again and again and again and can get much much worse over time if they are not resolved. Soo I would strongly encourage you to seek out a ‘good’ doctor or a ‘good’ nurse and s/he will make a knowledgeable medical diagnosis and thoroughly explain the causes preventions and solutions much better than anyone on Yahoo_Answers could do without being able to see you personally.
Also, to know how difficult or easy it should be for a doctor to make a ‘good’ diagnosis – I encourage you to also become a ‘good’ medical diagnostician from your doctor’s advice and your own research through Yahoo_Answers and via browser searches.
ITCHINGS & RASHES / WATER BLISTERS CAN BE CAUSED BY EITHER:
* an allergic reaction to ‘toxins’ in one’s food or skin applications or meds or air (i.e. Molds or smoke or vapors) etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urticaria
* fungal bacterial = Deadly_meningitis Anthrax Thrush Yeast_infection Jock_itch Ringworm Impetigo etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidiasis
* viral = Measles Smallpox Shingles Hand_foot_and_mouth_disease Roseola etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot_and_mouth_disease
* parasitical = Scabies_mite lice chiggers mosquitos ants etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scabies
* inadequate micro-nutrition absorption in the gut = Pellagra Scurvy Beriberi Rickets etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra
* also other treatments for various skin eruptions
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/womenshealth/facts/skinrash_pregnancy.htm
http://www.healthcentral.com/sexual-health/c/80228/60290/vagina-lumps
* either sun or hormonal or stress related or a combination of the above that make it difficult to find a definite single cause since there are multiple causes at the same time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/formication
FOR FURTHER HELP WITH PICTURES & INFO SEE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast_infection
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/skin-rash/SN00016
http://dermatology.about.com/cs/dermphotos/a/dermgallery.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatosis_of_pregnancy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestational_diabetes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_disease
I truly hope what you learn will help you to decide on the correct choices that will remedy your painful experience of pruritus-itching and rashes in the future.
My best to you and yours,
AI – self taught nutritionIsT >[(-:]
PS – IF you are interested, I feel I have become a quasi-expert on rashes and pruritus itching after many years of off and on flare ups due to my own nutritionally related asthma and gallbladder disease that ‘continued’ to become heart disease and T2 diabetes and then non-alcoholic fatty liver disease with either PBC or PSC. So you are not alone. Many many people suffer from pruritus and I have learned very late in my own disease(s) that when it is nutritionally related most doctors do not tell their patients that inadequate micro-nutrition absorption in the gut and liver ‘might’ be the root cause and the best solution, and is also the most likely cause to the pruritus and liver diseases that are currently overwhelming our American culture. So to do my part to make a difference in the world I now take a little time each week to help others understand why better micro-nutrition absorption in the gut is so important, and I have posted much of my own story via the link at: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091025223942AAni6lC . I hope you will have learned something today from my own mistakes and would not duplicate them – please pass on what you will learn from your own malady to your family friends neighbors and acquaintances. My best to you and yours. AI – self taught nutritionIsT >[(-:]

Sandy asks…
why is my hair unhealthy?
i dont straighten / blow dry / die it D:
however i do wash it everyday because i excersize every day and my scalp gets all itchy straight after, from the sweat.
is it bad if you dont shampoo your hair everyday even after excersizing?
my hair isnt necesarily unhealthy, just dry and my ends grow dead quickly, like even only 2 weeks after i trim it.
i really want it to grow but i want it to grow out healthy
tips?:

Brian answers:
Try coating your hair in olive oil, wrapping it up in a plastic grocery bag, and letting it sit in your hair for about an hour. Wash out your hair really well when you’re done, and your hair will be significantly less dry, the softest it’s ever been, and healthier. I do this about once ever two weeks with my hair, it works wonders.
Also, i would suggest using a shampoo that doesn’t use a sudsing agent. It’d probably more expensive, but much healthier for your hair and scalp. Look into this site for more info: http://ecosalon.com/organic-shampoos/
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