does wearing a hat cause hairloss?

[bertrumhenderson]

my hair is very fluffy and i often wear a hat before i put product in to get it a bit flatter.

i've looked online to see if wearing a hat causes hair loss, and basically the whole of the internet says that it doesn't.

however, my mother came in from work and told me she had been reading an article by some german hair expert or something. this person said that wearing a hat cause cause hair loss as it causes 'wear and tear' to your hair. is this true?

i figured here would be the best place to ask.

[Spex]

Complete BS

[Mirage]

Can't say it any better than Spex.....

[Havok]

propaganda by visor manufacturers.

[Hurts]

Yes if you wear a very tight hat for 15 hours that does not allow air to your scalp

[PatientlyWaiting]

I don't believe hats cause hair loss.

But coincidentally, my hair started thinning and excessively shedding when I started wearing baseball caps every day to play baseball. 1 month in, when I was 16. Before that, I never wore hats and I never thinned. Also, my hair did not get any better while I was on Propecia and Rogaine, and still wearing baseball caps every day[no longer to play baseball, just to cover my hair loss]. I got rid of all of my hats and haven't worn any other hats this year, and now all of a sudden Minoxidil and Finasteride decide to work better than before.

So I don't know. Every thing points to wearing hats triggered my already predetermined MPB, but didn't exactly caused it, it just sped it up maybe? But then doctors and scientists say otherwise, and I don't know more than doctors and scientists.

It's supposedly shut down as a myth because if hats cause hair loss, then why do we have hair on our armpits where it is covered by our arm all day, and why do we have pubic hair which is covered by underwear and jeans/pants all day? Why do we grow toe hair if we wear socks and shoes everyday and suffocate our feet for hours a day. I want to believe hats trigger hair loss because of the coincidence I went through with wearing hats and getting hair loss immediately. But it doesn't make sense that the head would be so different than every other body part in regards to what causes the hair loss.

[Winston]

Yes if you wear a very tight hat for 15 hours that does not allow air to your scalp

Hats do not cause hair loss no matter how long you wear them or how tight they are. Hair growth is not dependant and air reaching your scalp and in order to cut off the blood supply which would cause hair loss as well as scalp necrosis, the hat would have to be unbearably tight, causing excruciating pain. Theoretically I guess it’s possible if someone was being tortured by being forced to wear some sort of specially rigged unbearably tight cap, but it can’t happen in the real world.

[Havok]

how many MLB players are bald? i'm guessing not too many.

[Dr. Glenn Charles]

Only an old myth. But beware you can get sever hat head.

[BackwardsBalding]

Seeing how decreased blood flow is present in the heads of balding men I don't think rulling out a tight hat as at least contributing to hair loss in an individual already loseing hair is smart. Better words might be that it wont cause hair loss but if worn too tight for long periods of time it certainly can speed it up to some unkown degree.

[Dr. Glenn Charles]

Anything is possible, but it would have to be a really really tight hat to effect blood circulation.

[BackwardsBalding]

Anything is possible, but it would have to be a really really tight hat to effect blood circulation.

I agree it would need to be pretty tight however I don't think that is to hard to achieve at least not in my case as I often get headaches wearing hats do to my egg shaped head they fit too tightly. Dr Charles sorry to go off subject but I would love to hear your point of views on the information provided on the thread "Male Pattern Baldness Cured" by me on my original account ResearchNeverFails. Its a long read but certainly worth it and it would be very beneficial to hear a Doctors input on the matter. I have seen significant growth using these methods Its quite amazing every day new hair pop up and I promise to post pictures soon. In an effort to keep this post primarily about the main topic I think due to my egg shaped head hats very much affect blood flow and I try not to wear them unless they are loose fitting.

[PatientlyWaiting]

how many MLB players are bald? i'm guessing not too many.

Lol, you're way off. The majority are bald or have a receding hairline. Few MLB players have a full head of hair. Relatively speaking.

[PatientlyWaiting]

Seeing how decreased blood flow is present in the heads of balding men I don't think rulling out a tight hat as at least contributing to hair loss in an individual already loseing hair is smart. Better words might be that it wont cause hair loss but if worn too tight for long periods of time it certainly can speed it up to some unkown degree.

Who ever outright confirms or denies 100% that hats speed up/don't speed up hair loss, is lying. Me starting to lose hair when I started to wear hats regularly, does personally raise suspicion for me in which if I didn't wear baseball caps regularly, my hair loss would have most likely last longer to start. Why did it start at 16, the same age I started playing baseball all year round? Hats definitely don't cause hair loss, it doesn't trigger MPB, that would be nonsense. But I believe if you're already gonna get MPB, wearing caps regularly will speed up the process, but i'm not 100% sure on that. But I don't think it can be shut down 100% either.

[Havok]

Lol, you're way off. The majority are bald or have a receding hairline. Few MLB players have a full head of hair. Relatively speaking.

that's a pretty bold claim. i see a lot of MLB players with mature hairline like derek jeter but they're far from being 'bald.' i watch a lot of sports and i don't see any noticeable disparity in baldness from MLB/NFL to say MLS or NBA.