The official medical term for postpartum hair loss is telogen effluvium, which is when more hair than usual is shed from your scalp.

Topical hair-loss solutions like minoxidil have long been marketed as safe, easy, and largely risk-free. But as their use grows, often without medical supervision doctors are flagging concerns that ...

Doctors warn that the fine hair parents try to scrub away is not a defect at all but a natural protective layer that disappears on its own.