Growing Dandruff?

[MissJ]

I remember when my mom use to do my hair regularly, she'd talk about dandruff. Only my hair had "growing dandruff" as she would say. I never understood that, but I thought since it had something to do with growth it must have been good! Does anyone know if this even exists or did my mom just not know what she was talking about? Has anyone ever heard of that?

 

[Justice4alw]

When I was in elementary school, I had a best friend who had the most glorious thick, healthy, long head of hair that whenever she cut it seemed to sprout back out in WEEKS!

My hair, on the other hand, at that time was unhealthy, short, and broken off. I wanted long hair SOOOOOO bad, and I prevailed upon her over and over again to tell me her secret.

One day she told me that her mother told her that the reason that her hair grew so fast was that she had "growing dandruff". We put our heads together and decided if we flaked some off of her scalp and put it into mine that my hair would grow long, strong, and thick too.

Needless to say, this was an experiment that failed miserably. /images/graemlins/ohwell.gif

Now, I'm not saying that there's no such thing as "growing dandruff". I'm just saying that the application of growing dandruff to MY head proved to have fruitless results. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[LondonDiva]

I personally used to believe the dandruff theory but I don't have dandruff or any flakes on my scalp and it grows in the best it's done since I started looking after it. When I never washed/exfoiliated my scalp through massaging or leaving washes till every 2 weeks I got flakes of course. I personally think it's a scalp irritation/fungus or a case of dead skin on the surface of the scalp that's flaking off.

If that were the case I think a lot of ladies would be complaining of snowflakes every month from some of the wonderous hair growth they get on a monthly basis.

/images/graemlins/scratchchin.gif thinking about it. I haven't had a dry scalp or flakes in a few years now. /images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[legs71]

if there was such a thing as growing dandruff I'd be stepping on my hair right now. I had the most horrible dandruff you could imagine and every remedy I tried would not work. Miraculously, last month out of no where the dandruff stopped....thank goodness!

 

[LondonDiva]

Legs did you change any vitamins or eating habits around the time it stopped.

 

[MissJ]

Thanks for the replies!

 

[Chipmunk]

I've heard it, I get dandruff, my hair does grow pretty fast, but I don't think it's the dandruff.

 

[legs71]

I added vitamin e, sea kelp and lechitin to my regimen, but my horrible eating habits are still the same.

 

[honeycomb719]

I can't say ya or nay it there's any truth to the growing dandruff thing. All my friends( who hair is longer than mine, always have been /images/graemlins/crazy.gif) say that they have growing dandruff, when they roots get wavy w/ new growth dandruff is accompanying it. They claim that this is the only time the notice dandruff on there scalps. Also, they claim they can tell when the hair is growing because they scalps itch more than usual. Me personally, I can't say they not being truthful because they all agree, and I have seen there scalps in this condition, when I apply relaxers for them. I don't experince anything type of dandruff ever. Does this have something to do w/ how my hair grows? Who knows? Could be some truth to it, IMO.

 

[Nicetameecha]

I have never heard of the term "growing dandruff" but since we are on the subject, here is a website that provides a lot of background on dandruff in general! HTH

Dandruff Info

 

[pebbles]

Hi Nicetameecha,

Thanks for the link. /images/graemlins/smile.gif I also wanted to tell you that you have beautiful hair and a beautiful face. /images/graemlins/smile.gif /images/graemlins/Flahssssss.gif

 

[Supergirl]

Miss J, my mom used to tell me I had growing dandruff too. Now, I don't think this stuff makes the hair grow, but can result from hair growth. You see, hair is nothing more than dead skin cells...and with the hair pushing through the scalp, it's bringing some of the dead scalp skin with it in the form of flakes. There ya go!

Justice4Law,
Your story is 2-Cute. We'll have to publish that in Chicken Soup for the Sistah's Soul.

 

[Dido111]

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Justice4alw said:
When I was in elementary school, I had a best friend who had the most glorious thick, healthy, long head of hair that whenever she cut it seemed to sprout back out in WEEKS!

My hair, on the other hand, at that time was unhealthy, short, and broken off. I wanted long hair SOOOOOO bad, and I prevailed upon her over and over again to tell me her secret.

One day she told me that her mother told her that the reason that her hair grew so fast was that she had "growing dandruff". We put our heads together and decided if we flaked some off of her scalp and put it into mine that my hair would grow long, strong, and thick too.

Needless to say, this was an experiment that failed miserably. /images/graemlins/ohwell.gif

Now, I'm not saying that there's no such thing as "growing dandruff". I'm just saying that the application of growing dandruff to MY head proved to have fruitless results. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

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lol /images/graemlins/laugh.gif /images/graemlins/grin.gif /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Nicetameecha]

Thank you Pebbles! I am loving your gorgeous hair! /images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[MissJ]

Supergirl, there's gonna be a Chicken Soup for the Sister's Soul? Wow! I love those books. I have several! I think that would be great!

 

[pebbles]

Thanks girl! /images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Supergirl]

Girl, I'm sorry for getting you all excited--but I made that up. But, there's no reason we couldn't put one together. We'd probably need to call it Fried Chicken for the Sistah's Soul so that we don't get sued by the other people who created the chicken soup one's.

 

[MissJ]

Oh!!! lol Anyway, we'd still probably get sued like Gone With the Wind and The Wind Done Gone!

 

[LondonDiva]

Supergirl

Don't you mean that dandruff is dead skin cells, not the hair itself. The hair is made up of protein and moisture.

 

[Crysdon]

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I also wanted to tell you that you have beautiful hair and a beautiful face.

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I agree! /images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Supergirl]

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Supergirl

Don't you mean that dandruff is dead skin cells, not the hair itself. The hair is made up of protein and moisture.


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No actually girl--I was always taught in my science classes that hair (and nails) are just dead cells. No doubt thought, that they do have those other things in them as well.

 

[LondonDiva]

Oh ok, /images/graemlins/smile.gif I know it's dead once ouched through the follicle but I had no idea it was referred to as a skin cell.