5 Reasons You Should Not Sleep with Wet Hair

Everyone wants thick and long hair but wants it to be done overnight. You might also be using expensive hair products and visiting the best hair salons. But, still, you would be noticing that your hair is lifeless. So, now you need to check your lifestyle habits that are affecting your hair-health.

You might be the person who loves going to bed after taking a shower. But what if I tell you that it can potentially damage your hair.

Your hair is your crown and you need to carry it with confidence. Now, coming towards the hair damaging habits. Wet hair can cause damage to your hair. You might be having a workaholic routine and skip washing hair, so you end up washing hair at night. If you do this, there may be hidden dangers for your hair that you don’t know about.

Reasons Not to Go to Bed with Wet Hair

According to the dermatologists at the Family Care Hospital, your hair care and personal lifestyle habits play a major role in determining your hair health. In order to help you understand, I am going to share with you the reasons why you shouldn’t be sleeping with wet hair.

If you are interested in knowing, then Read On:

     1. Wet Hair Cause Extreme Hair Breakage

Wet hair is prone to breakage. So, if you wake up with a pile of broken hair strands on your pillow, don’t be surprised. Wet hair increases the friction of your hair. Hence making them snap easily as compared to dry hair.

When you sleep with wet hair. The outer layer of your scalp i.e. cuticle remains open. This makes your hair “extremely brittle” and “stretchier”.

     2. Increase Bacterial and Fungal Infection

Your pillows can be a potential playing ground for the microbes such as bacteria and fungi. So, when you sleep with wet hair, the warm and damp environment plays an important role in bacterial growth. This scenario also leads to fungal infection such as “Malassezia” fungus” it can cause fungal infection, responsible for your dandruff. The damp hair can also lead to “Scalp Ringworm” which is a notorious fungal infection.

In fact, your hair’s natural oil gets absorbed on your pillow. Natural oil along with the excess moisture will only make your scalp prone to dandruff, which you won’t want. Right?!

     3. Dull Hair

When the water and natural oil move from your scalp to the pillow, your hair will be dehydrated. This will make your hair dull and lifeless.

You need to understand that there is a big difference between dehydrated and dry hair. Dry hair has natural oil while dehydrated is no essential hair.

     4. Hair Loss

Wet hair causes hair loss. Yes, you have read it right, wet hair can cause hair loss. Believe it or not, whether you comb your wet hair or sleep with wet hair, you lose more hair. You can even develop a scalp ringworm. It is a typical skin fungal infection in damp and warm conditions.

This infection is even contagious, so you need to be very careful. You need to grow them, instead of losing them.

     5. Acne

Acne is the worst nightmare that no one wants to have. Your pillow already has various microbes and if you are sleeping with wet hair then the chances of having acne increases.

Here is What You Should Be Doing

Healthy hair is the dream of every individual. So, while I was researching the best hair-care tips, I came across an article regarding the best hair transplant in Karachi. Experts in that article have thoroughly discussed the hair-care routine and the “things damaging to the hair”. In that article one of the ‘bad-hair habits’ was also going to bed with wet hair.

Here are some of the tips to

• Avoid washing your hair right before
• You need to wash your hair in the evening. In this way, you’ll give enough time for your hair to dry.
• Opt for a pillowcase, made from silk. The silk fabric reduces friction and protects your hair from damage.
• You can use a T-shirt to dry your hair instead of using a regular towel. This will protect your hair from damaging your hair.
• In order to strengthen your hair, you can use a “leave-in” conditioner.
• If you have hair extensions then avoid sleeping while your hair is This will make your hair extensions matted and tangled.
• However, if you still have to sleep with your hair wet, you can opt for either changing your pillowcase every alternative day or use a waterproof pillowcase.

TakeAway Note:

Losing hair is definitely a fast process while growing them back is quite a time taking. So, you need to take proper care of your hair. You don’t spend quite a fortune on getting them back in their original shape? Right?!