CKD and ESRD can have unpleasant cutaneous manifestations, including alopecia, but there are several helpful approaches to mitigating hair loss.

About 90% of the follicles on the scalp are in the anagen stage at any one time. Hair grows at a rate of about a third of a millimeter a day, or about 15 centimeters a year, which is nearly 6 inches.

Hair loss is reversible if the cosmetic procedure is stopped and the hair is handled gently; this is true even in early stages of traction alopecia. Stressing this reversibility should be the ...