I lose masses of hair due to the medication I need to use,but luckily I have always had loads of very strong thick hair,so no one ever had realised how much comes out every day when I brush it!!! I have always brushed my hair regularly from childhood,and likewise,always been certain to make sure I clean my brush,which is a fairly expensive one!! What is the point of brushing clean hair with a dirty brush? Even though my hair is a translucent silver colour rather than its original lustrous brunette,I still like to take good care of it,and be sure is it soft and clean....
I only brush my hair once a day, unless it gets particularly tangled for some reason. I shed a lot of hair so I pick the pair out of the brush every time (I have a special tool for that) and wash the brush in hot water and vinegar once a week (or boiling water if we have lice in the house).
Wow, Jennifer -you are good cleaning the brush so often!
Otherwise it gets so full of hair I can't use it properly. It grows super quickly. Also, hair is full of bacteria.