Dandruff Control Diet, Precautions

Deepa

Many are confused between Dandruff and White Piedra. Both are fungal infections and caused by different reasons.

White Piedra is an infection of the hair shaft which is caused by a fungus variety known as Trichosporon, which is found in soil and dirty water. This spreads to bad habits like not washing hair regularly, sharing combs or pillows, using dirty water to wash hair etc.

Also dandruff is different from dry skin. Everyone experiences dry skin which can be seen on scalp, face, nose, ears, fingers, feet (dead skin) etc. This can be controlled by taking less oily food, reducing cheese/butter, avoiding pickles, by doing oil pulling in morning (mouth, nostrils and ears with sesame seeds oil).

Deepa

Dandruff is generally caused by another fungus known as Malassezia Globosa. Your scalp produces oil or sebum which feeds this fungus. In extreme situations, when your scalp is producing excess oil, this fungus can see a growth spike and break down the sebum into oleic acid. If your body reacts to this by product, it leads to severe itching, redness and white -yellow flakes of dead skin cells.

People with oily skin need to control oil food intake. Avoid pickles, fried food. Only eat healthy oil (limited quantity) like virgin olive oil or cold pressed coconut oil. Avoid intake of all seed oils

uNORTHodOX

All the anti-dandruff shampoos are waste. They only remove oil and flakes from scalp temporarily. It keeps coming back due to diet, hygiene and habits. Best is to change diet according to body/skip type and use pH ZERO shampoo (if shikai or reetha not available)

Quincy

uNORTHodOX All the anti-dandruff shampoos are waste.

Also quality of water plays a BIG role. Try to use clean and room temperature water to wash scalp/hair. In many areas ground water is contaminated or forms scales which damages hair irrespective of shampoo

Deepa

If dry skin flakes around ears and on scalp is the issue, then put 3-4 drops of warm sesame oil in ears, nostrils and 20 ml in mouth to do oil pulling every morning. This will remove kapha dosha from scalp, face and also cure sinus problems

OMkaar

Balayam Yoga (rubbing 4 finger nails of each hand against other hand nails) will also balance oils on scalp and prevent dry/dead skin flakes, dandruff etc, apart from growing hair