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Your scalp shedding like a snake, but with worse PR.
means The dead skin flakes that shed from the scalp, often clinging visibly to hair and dark clothing.
from A puzzler for etymologists — it surfaces in English in the 1500s as a compound, likely pairing a dialect word related to 'tetter' (an old term for a skin eruption or scabby condition) with 'dandy' or 'dro', though no one has nailed the second half down. The 'dan' part may echo Old Norse or Danish roots tied to skin conditions, but honestly, the full trail has gone cold — making it one of those common words whose exact birth certificate is missing.
- not dryness
- often caused by a fungus that overfeeds on scalp oil
- the culprit
- malassezia, yeast living on nearly everyone s scalp
- speed issue
- skin cells cycling twice as fast as normal
- cold weather myth
- heating and dry air worsen it, not cause it