Good afternoon,

Thank you for your question.

You are right, usually there is relation between waterquality changes and hair loss, but not for all people changes in water can causehair loss. Water can worsen symptoms of damaged hair or dermatitis and as theresult the number of falling hair increase. So if you improve the hair growth environmentyou can reduce the number of falling hairs and make new hair grow better. Badgrowth conditions are not necessarily caused by a specific disease, they can becaused by a weakening of the hair gradually without any disease.

We do bloodtest to find out specific reasons for hair loss. You can make blood test inanother hospital and bring it here, we can let you know what kinds of tests youneed to get. If you would like to make blood test in our hospital, it will takeabout 3-4 days. The price of the test depends on the tests you will get, it isusually around 60,000- 80,000 won. If you need to get female/ male hormone testas well, it will cost 150,000- 160,000 won. If there are no abnormalities inyour blood test, it means hair loss is caused by weakening of the hair growthfunctions in your body and you will need treatment to improve these functions.If your hair loss is caused by some disease you will have to treat this diseasefirst. Treatment cost depends on type of medicine you will be prescribed,usually it is combination of internal and external medicine, one month oftreatment is usually 350-550USD. Duration of treatment depends on your current situation.All the medicine is made of natural herbal ingredients, they are safe even forpregnant women and have no side effects.

I will send you more information to your email.

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Hello, Within several weeks of moving to Korea last summer, I started losing a lot of hair. I`m a 34-year old woman. Before moving here, I had a massive, thick, and lustrous head of hair. I have not experienced major stressors here, or significant changes in diet as I ate similarly prior. I have had some issues with fungus and have dandruff (seborrheic dermatitis) that are longstanding but have never experienced hair loss. The hair loss slowed significantly earlier this year when I installed a water purifying filter on my showerhead, but I didn`t replace the filter for a long time and recently noticed the hair loss is so noticeable (many strands will fall out at a time, clumps). I just noticed that my hair is SO thin -- I have lost probably 75% of my hair, though no bald spots are visible (yet). I can send a photo via email.Do you run blood tests to check for common vitamin or other nutritional deficiencies? Also, via email, may I please request the cost of an initial visit and/or treatment for someone without national health insurance. Thank you kindly in advance.