Why Your Child Might Have White Hair

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction
0:38 Genetics
1:00 Vitamin deficiency
1:32 Environmental exposures
2:08 Medical conditions

Premature greying of hair (PGH), also known as canities, can have negative effects on appearance, self-confidence, self-esteem, and social acceptance of the affected individual. Hair is said to have greyed prematurely if it occurs before the age of 20 years in Europeans, before 25 years in Asians, and before 30 years in Africans.[1]
Cause of greying is incompletely understood. It is a complex multi-factorial process mainly considered to be an interplay of nutritional, genetic and environmental factors.

Stress causing over-activation of the sympathetic nervous system increases noradrenaline release in hair follicles. This overproduction causes depletion of the melanocyte stem cells which are required to produce melanin, the pigment responsible for hair color.[2]

Nutritional deficiencies like vitamin B12 deficiency, severe iron deficiency, chronic protein loss, copper deficiency are often found associated with premature greying of hairs. Other factors that have been incriminated are low serum ferritin, and low serum calcium and vitamin D3 levels.[3][4]

Premature greying of hair has been observed with greater frequency among certain families, suggesting a familial predisposition for the condition. As hair pigmentation is a result of complex interaction between various genetic factors, it is thought that premature greying could be due to exhaustion of melanocyte's capability to produce hair pigmentation.[1] Premature canities may occur alone as an autosomal dominant condition or in association with various autoimmune or premature aging syndromes. Down syndrome (trisomy 21) is characterized by features of accelerated aging including premature greying of hair and deficient DNA repair.[5] Premature greying needs to be differentiated from various genetic hypomelanotic hair disorders.

Smoking is another factor that is considered to be related to premature greying of hair. Smoking results in generation of huge amount of reactive oxygen species leading to increased oxidative stress culminating into damage to melanin producing cells, melanocytes.[6][7] Prolonged exposure to ultraviolet rays is considered to initiate similar processes in hair follicles resulting in premature greying of hair.

[Lamaralo]

I have white hair
And they all laugh at me
Bc they call me grandma
But I’m a child😢
Not grandma😢

[dor]

my first white hair was from pre-elem, now I'm 17 I've started growing white hair again.

[griseldadungca]

How do u heal it, im 12 years old using grandmas phone mine is from genetic.. how do u get rid of it pls.

[khadijahnyabinghi]

Uncanny to say the least. Is this the same as grey hair ? Just curious.

[Nwebi-c]

I’m 9 years old and I have only 2 very thin white hairs 😮

[ogy_mastrr]

I am really known for breaking my bones i broke about 4 bones this and last year and i had a lot of X-rays. Is it cause of rdiation that i have white hair i noticed it just recently that i have a few white hairs?

[Kaizukhakupac]

33 my hair was black now 70% white.
started around 17 .
same happened to my uncle, told me it's hereditary, even facial hair mostly white and chest hair too.

But eyebrow's fully black, hand hair fully black, leg hair fully black.

I'm just confused at this point

[noufalckhckh]

My kid only 7 now i see whie hair in his hairs..iam realy sad abou my kid😞

[masterlee]

White and silver hair has been around for centuries and can disappear in a population through the mixing of other shades of hair like brown or blonde and with some families it still pops up every couple generations in a small percentage of their relatives and some believe that their used to be whole tribes of white haired people in the Germanic parts of Europe that died out and the hair looks more healthier then what you normally see on old people and can even produce oils like what is normal for small children and young adults.The rarest hair shade in Europe and one of the clans/large family group with many relatives/ provides free land with string attached for moving to the opposite side of the nation for those rare freaks of nature into the same area. Move them out of the clans gene pool and into their own. The land cannot be sold without the permission of both parties and the white hair receive very little profit from the sale. Tolerant or intolerant the white hair still benefits from the arrangement.

[VanVan-lbmc]

I had grey hair since I was 10 ain't lying

[I_ACE_THE_CREATOR_I]

I’m 11 and my dad said that while cutting my hair they found 12 different strands of white hair and sometimes my sisters find strands of white hair

[tissue_sobs]

Just wondering can anorexia cause this issue to happen?

[muneeramuneeramuhthas]

I have grey hair in iam 9 and now iam 14 if you look my hair there so many greys what the solution😢

[lynin_kyan]

I got it when I was ten Only a few But I'm not the only one that has it, Same to a few of my classmates in elementary 5-6th grade

[sinnombre-iwwb]

I loved my white hair patch. Had it since birth.

[yygg]

my brother has a couple white hairs at 13, me and my parents dont

[HelloThere-ocoo]

I was 10 and I saw a kid literally looks like kakashi from naruto

[suunghhoon]

i’m 13 and i have so many white hairs 😭

[HOORAYBOOTAY]

Same thing happening to me and i'm only 19...

[prixiejynvallenas]

I had grey hair when I was 12 years old. 🩶