Now we've all heard of this and use the expression "so scray it can turn a persons hair white". Is this even remotely plausable? I can understand if a body has a tremendous amount of stress put on it that chemical changes can occur. However, how can someting thats dead (your hair) change color from a traumatic event? My friend swears up and down that her great grandmother had a stroke and the next day her hair was white. I say granny wore a wig for years and when she was in the hospital they removed the wig. What do we think folks?

Indeed it is possible Star. I have to say that I'm not familiar with the nature of the chemical transformation, but I have seen it happen. A friend of mine got such a shock when his mother was taken into hospital that his hair went white, not all over or all at once, but it did start to go white at the sides. Then when his mother was successfully treated, it changed back and he now just has some flecks of grey. I've also seen it in my cousin when his sister died, he now looks like he dyes the sides of his hair white whereas the top of his head is it's normal colour, it looks quite odd. So, like I say, it definitely happens and it seems to be shock induced, but the chemical cause remains, to me at least, a mystery.

DUUUUUUDE, i knew this lad in my school who was 15 when in year nine his hair started going white for no apparent reason what so ever this confused the hell out of a lot of people, i just hope it doesn't happen to me LOL

it is very possible to say it can sure as hell happen. there was a plane crash a while back so this mother was seperated from her daughter when the plane went kaboom she was so shocked that her hair actually turned white as death its self

OK, maybe I should clarifey myself.

Now I understand the hair at the roots going white and growing white forever, but every inch of dead hair? The hair already outside of your head is dead, dead, dead! There are no blood or lymph systems in the hair on your head. No way for a chemical change to occur in that part of the hair. Does anyone have a doctor friend they could consult?

Absolutely confirmed!! your hair definitely CAN turn white overnight through a sudden shock or high stress . People who's hair loses its pigment overnight don't have any "in between" white hair, as it would if it was growing white from the root (old age), it just TURNS !! I know someone who developed a white stripe like a skunk down the middle of his head after his Dad died. British TV sports presenter Dickie Davies had the very same thing, a white stripe overnight after the berievement of someone close to him. Confirmed.

hair has color because of pigment which you lose when you get old because it rubs off so if you were scared it would stay the same and it would make no since if wore off from fear.

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Originally posted by Bigxr:
Absolutely confirmed!! your hair definitely CAN turn white overnight through a sudden shock or high stress . People who's hair loses its pigment overnight don't have any "in between" white hair, as it would if it was growing white from the root (old age), it just TURNS !! I know someone who developed a white stripe like a skunk down the middle of his head after his Dad died. British TV sports presenter Dickie Davies had the very same thing, a white stripe overnight after the berievement of someone close to him. Confirmed.

Dude... Not for nothing do your research before you just spread bs. Nothing worse than ignorance.
After talking to several Doctors at SUNY Stony Brook and a few scientist friends of mine at Brookhaven National Lab I have found out that outside of alopecia (where all but any white hair falls from your head thereby giving the appearance that you've gone white and very thinned sometimes overnight or a joker peroxiding you in a drunken stupor) it is physically and chemically impossible for this to occur overnight. You can lose the ability to produce color overnight but the dead hair (that's right DEAD) that you see won't turn white. If you shaved your head after this occurrence you would grow in white, but otherwise you will keep your hair color in the existing already grown portion of your hair and anything after would grow white. It's dead... D E A D dead. Nothing your body does can change it's color.


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star, there is nowt as queer as folk,
just because the world of science has most of the answers, they are occasionaly wrong, they have been in the past and will be in the future.
the human body is capable of many great things,
once, scientists thought that if a body was to travel faster than 100mph it would explode
and you hed to "bleed" to be cured of many ailments as your blood was "old".
I also know of a truck driver who killed a girl that jumped in front of his truck deliberately.
his hair turned white overnight and i mean ALL the hair present on his head from root to tip.
although science may deny the possibility t does happen
cheers

it is told that even the beard turns white couse of stress or like scientific explained just couse of the growing older have in mind that there are 40-60 years old people with white beard/heir and thus that have not lost their hair/beard colour

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