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It has to be said firstly that hair loss due to poisoning is a very unlikely thing. You really have to be very unlucky to loose your hair due to poisoning of any sort. The problem is that hair loss in itself is already a very hard condition to diagnose especially if you want to find the exact cause of the problem. Unless your hair loss follows the pattern of male or female pattern baldness then it becomes quite tough to determine the exact cause of the hair loss.

When it comes to the poisoning of chemicals, there are a number of chemicals when ingested or even exposed to can cause serious hair loss however the incidents of mercury poisoning are by far the most prominent along with poisoning from other sorts of heavy metals like lead, mercury and cadmium. Dermatologists have recently agreed that people who eat too much of a certain type of fish can indeed overload their bodies with too much mercury which causes severe hair loss if a certain level threshold is passed. The fish that are particularly susceptible in causing mercury poisoning are shark, king mackerel, tilefish, certain types of tuna and swordfish.

There is a common misconception that these fish actually contain the excessive levels of mercury however that simply isn’t true. What happens is that the consuming high levels of these fish will cause unusually high levels of mercury to be stored by the human body. The problem with mercury and any other poison is that the body can’t excrete it fast enough before it causes damage. This is especially true for heavy metal poisoning such as mercury which can take months for the body to process and excrete. As mentioned before it is almost impossible to determine (by yourself) if you hair loss is caused by the mercury however if you do feel that there is a possibility then you only need to is simply to stop eating the fish that cause the mercury poisoning and your hair should come back after a few months.

In addition to mercury poisoning, there is also a more common sort of poisoning that can also cause hair loss although it has to be said that it isn’t as dangerous as other sorts of poisoning as the symptoms will show up far earlier than other sorts of poisons and long before a deadly dose can be dealt. Cyanide poisoning normally happens when the hair loss victim is constantly exposed to low to mild levels of cyanide on a daily basis either through their workplace or through the food that they take.

The characteristics of hair loss that comes with poisoning are quite different from person to person. Without actually going into the specifics of each poison and each affect it can be safely said that hair loss is generally experienced from all areas of the body and normally exhibits in either the thinning of the hair or hair falling out in clumps. The one thing that makes hair loss due to poisons easier to diagnose are the other side-affects of exposure to poisons. Normally if you have ingested poisons the last thing you’d be worried about is hair loss as all the cramps diarrhea etc will have your mind quite occupied. If you have been exposed to low levels of poisons for long periods of time when there will be more subtle side-affects such as lathery, appetite problems etc that can also alert you to the poisoning problems.