anyone have a severly itchy scalp during the growing stage?

[ilong]

I think any of the reasons posted could apply depending on the person:

• dirty hair
• product buildup
• allergic reaction
• fungus
• pre-relaxer
• hair growth

I had my hair shampooed, DC, trimmed and cornrowed on 3/16 at a salon. A few days (4-5) later my scalp started to itch. I shampooed my hair on 3/22 or 3/23 and have been deep conditioning by wrapping hair in Saran wrap and leaving it for an entire day. It's time for anothe shampoo - but my head is itching something crazy. At first I thought it may have been the salon products used in my hair. But after the itchiing continued after my shampoo- I discounted that. I take and use a lot of anti-fungal products so I eliminated fungus and I am a natural.

Today makes 13 days since my hair was braided and I can lift most of the braids off my scalp anywhere from 1/2" to 1"". I shampoo with a weaving cap on to minimize braid manipulation and I know braids get loose over time, but I am going to claim "growth" as the reason for my itchy scalp.

I think consistently taking my supplements, applying my topical growth aids and maintaining the same regimen is delivering visible hair growth results. I plan to leave my braids in until next weekend and I hope they are extremely loose when I take them down.

My hair is itching like crazy as I type this post. If expect to see a significant increase in my length from when I had my hair braided.

 

[hnntrr]

My head almost always itches at this point. I dont know if its cause I am allergic to something or if my hair is growing or what. It used to only itch right before relaxers so since I havn't had one for a while my head just constantly itches now, there are some days when it doesnt but right now, its itchy.

It itches when I DC too long
If I wear my scarf too long
If I keep my hat on too long....basically if I keep my head covered too long
....so it might be somethin towards that? I duno. Ick.

 

[Saludable84]

hnntrr

Have you tried changing your water temperature. When my water is too hot, I have an itchy scalp. When it's cool, nothing.

It also depends on how much you massage when washing. The less I massage, the less I itch later on. Tea rinsing helps me with this. Also, washing less worked for me. I went from 2-3x a week to 1x a week.

I also try not to leave dc on for more than 30-40 minutes and using steam helps. Oils help, but for me penetrating oils make worse rather than better. Try changing little things to find out what works.

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[greenandchic]

My scalp only itches when its dirty

Same here. About day 3 hair is when my scalp starts to itch. I usually wash on day three or four...

 

[Jewell]

I definitely get the itchies after starting new hair vits or other supplements that help with hair growth. Otherwise i really dont get the itchies much...even after long stretches of 4 months or more. I do use a lot of sulfur/EO/herb oil on my scalp though. When I get to itching I will oil my scalp and it stops immediately...then I wash the next day and my scalp is supremely healthy. I used to have a dry, flaky scalp yrs ago but not since about 2005 when i started making my own scalp oil. Even if I dont apply the oil one week, my scalp still stays healthy and itch-free.

 

[sweetlaughter]

I have been dealing with this for a few weeks now. I have tried clarifying, tea tree oil, peppermint oil, jojoba oil, shea butter, ACV rinses, olive oil, and doing nothing.

I wash my hair, put in my leave in and grapeseed oil same as I have been doing for the past year and a half and without fail my scalp itches so much the next day that I am washing it every two days.

 

[ilong]

Spent several hours today shampooing, DC, applying coffee/tea rinses, DC again. I had the itches the entire time of the first DC. No more itching after rinsing.
I want to maintain optimism so I'm claiming growth as the "root" cause!
(Pun intended)

 

[karenjoe]

I have been dealing with this for a few weeks now. I have tried clarifying, tea tree oil, peppermint oil, jojoba oil, shea butter, ACV rinses, olive oil, and doing nothing.

I wash my hair, put in my leave in and grapeseed oil same as I have been doing for the past year and a half and without fail my scalp itches so much the next day that I am washing it every two days.

I stopped using tingly like shampoos
( peppermint, tea tree's)
or any shampoo.

I shampoo once per month... shea moisture, panetene for women of color, or Roux porosity shampoo.

 

[India*32]

I had terrible itchy scalp both when relaxed and now natural. Apple Cider Vinegar Rinse did the trick every single time. I love it. I use to spend so much money on trying to relieve the itches. ACVR is inexpensive and very effective.

 

[Amarilles]

But hair grows everyday.... for this to make sense heads would have to be itching at random hours daily for a whole lifetime because most of the hair on our heads are in anagen and growing daily.

I get some mad itching when the head needs to be cleaned...5-6 days after my wash.

 

[Aireen]

I used to think my hair itched when it was growing too, then I thought about it and realized it made absolutely no sense. Ladies, hair grows daily which will add up to your monthly growth rate -- whatever that may be. If your hair is itching, you may want to look in to if you're experiencing an allergic reaction, have dry scalp, a scalp condition like sebborheic dermatitis (which is caused by fungas), or scalp damage from relaxer, heat tools, so on and so forth. I highly doubt that your hair would itch from growth.

 

[Fenaxa]

Yes! My scalp gets.. Not itchy but a little irritated and sore when hair is actively growing from it. The feeling makes me want to scratch it initially but isn't necessary. I can tell that it is that "growing sensation" because I'll measure the same part of my hair for 3 weeks and it'll be the same length until I get that feeling, about a week later, it's a half inch longer. Different parts of my hair grows at different times though, usually my nape is very last and has the shortest "growing sensation" and my crown is first and can have that feeling for a week straight (per month).
Some people don't really have sensitive enough scalps to feel it because one of my friends never gets any kind of "growing sensation" at all so it depends on the person.

 

[mshoneyfly]

If you're relaxed and use lye that could be the culprit. Lye is harder on the scalp. When I used lye I had big flakes and itchies all the time. It stopped when I switched back to no lye.

I dont have anymore probs with my scalp since I started using oils and more nat products. The Hair Trigger oil as a HOT is really good for scalp and so is tea rinsing. When I warm the tea before pouring it on it feels soooo good.

I recently bought Shea Moisture ABSoap purification masque, poo, balancing condish, the scalp spray and bar soap for DD. she loves them all. Her scalp still gets itchy; even after switching to no lye then transitioning. This whole line is AMAZING! Leaves the hair so soft and clean. It has willow bark extract to "exfoliate and detox hair and scalp", plantain for "itchiness and irritation". I have fallen in love with this stuff right along with DD.

Hope this post helps. HHHG!!

 

[Urban]

Growth stage? The anagen phase (growth phase) is ocurring in 90% of the hair all the time. My scalp itches because I have seborreic dermatitis. Castor oil actually helps with that because it's anti-fungal. I don't let my scalp get dirty, it just makes it worse.

I think people believe there's one anagen phase at a point in time for your whole head. All your different strands are going through the different stages at any given point.

So it's not that your hair is not growing at the beginning of the month, then rushes to all grow at the end.

 

[Silverstreaks]

I've noticed that when my scalp itches, it's usually in the same spots. I've noticed that in those areas there is more hair breakage due to scratching. Those areas also have a tendency to have hair that is kinkier and dryer than the rest of my hair, therefore weaker. Keeping my hair and scalp extra moisturized in those areas has helped and the hair in those areas is doing much better in terms of length retention. Protein treatments to treat the breakage helped also.

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[koolkittychick]

Heh, I just happen to be experiencing this as well, but for a slightly different reason. Due to a mishap with timing on my last relaxer, I ended up "scalping" a small patch of my hair in my nape area (i.e., the relaxer became a depilatory because it was left on too long). Now the hair in that area is growing back, and it's itching like crazy. But I don't mind; it means I didn't destroy my follicles, and hopefully it will stop itching once the hairs grow long enough. I'm just thankful the rest of my hair is long enough to cover the damage as it grows out.

 

[PinkSunshine77]

No and that's a myth that if your scalp itches, it's growing. If your scalp is itching, you need to wash more frequently or see a Dermatologist. That's not normal. My scalp only itches when it's dirty.

 

[soulglo]

My scalp only really itches when I have build up from working out aka it is wash time

 

[trclemons]

My hair was extremely itchy after my last wash and this doesn't normally occur. The only thing I can think of is maybe the leave in conditioner somehow irritated my scalp.

I am currently transitioning to natural and I use a modified version of the curly girl method (i.e. I leave most of the moisturizing conditioner in my hair after my wash, but some of my conditioners may include cones).

The itching got so bad that I went to check on my hair and it was so dry. So I added some no cone leave in conditioner and some heavier oil to my scalp and the itching gradually stopped.

I made of note of everything I used during that wash/conditioner session so I can hopefully isolate which product caused this itching crisis.