Synonym(s)
Blue hair; Changes in hair color; Green hair; Hair Discoloration; hair discolouration; Premature greying
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Physiologically, human hair darkens in the course of life. Equally physiological are differences in hair colour in the individual regions of the body.
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Causes and diseases that can cause changes in the color of hair:
- Noxious agents/medicines:
- Green: copper from old water pipes.
- Light blue: cobalt for industrial workers.
- Dark blue: Indigo for industrial workers.
- Yellow-yellow-brown: White or grey hair in cigarette or cigar smokers.
- Red-brown: Trinitrotoluene for industrial workers.
- Lightening: Blond or red hair, if chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine is taken.
- Greying prematurely: mephenesine, triparanol, butyrophenone, haloperidol, bleomycin.
- Darkening hair: Diazoxide, Minoxidil (only available as a topical drug!).
- Diseases that occur with defined colour changes of the hair. S.a. Hypopigmentation.
- Drugs that cause hair discoloration. S.a. drug-induced hair discoloration
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Please ask your physician for a reliable diagnosis. This website is only meant as a reference.
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer