Dandruff itself does not take your hair. What it can do is make you scratch, and scratching an inflamed scalp breaks hair and can push more of it into shedding.
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Dandruff doesn't take your hair. What it can do is make you scratch, and scratching an inflamed scalp breaks hair and can push more of it into shedding. So the flakes aren't the villain. The inflammation and the scratching are. Treat the scalp and the shedding usually settles. If it doesn't settle, the dandruff was never the whole story.
So the flakes are not the villain — the inflammation and the scratching are. Treat the scalp and the shedding usually settles. If it does not settle once the scalp is calm, dandruff was never the whole story and it is worth having a doctor look properly.