What Causes Hair Loss? What Can I Do?
It is normal to lose 50-100 hairs a day, this is part of the renewal process of the hair. However most people suffer from excessive hair loss at one time in their lives. There are many reasons for this medication, including radiotherapy, chemotherapy, exposure to chemicals, hormonal and nutritional factors, diseases, thyroid disease, generalized or local skin, and stress.
Many of these causes are temporary and some are permanent. These are some of the most common reasons of hair loss.
HORMONAL BEHAVIOR
Since hormones stimulate hair growth and cause hair loss, hormonal changes, have by far the largest impact on loss hair. These can affect both men and women in the following ways:
This is the most common cause of thinning and affects both men and women. Men generally have hair loss concentrated in a specific model forward through the crown. Women tend to have thinning throughout their head without being in any specific model. This type of hair loss is caused by the Androgen dihydrotestosterone, or DHT. Since everyone has DHT that is produced by their bodies and only some people suffer from hair loss there must be another factor involved. This factor is having follicles that others have a greater number of androgen receptors for DHT to attach. This is the component which is inherited through genes. To date, the most effective treatments for prevention are anti androgens, drugs that prevent the creation of DHT. In the future gene therapy will one day be able to alter genes to prevent the follicles from being affected by DHT.
Childbirth
After pregnancy many women experience hair loss, it is caused many hair simultaneously to have the rest (telogen) phase. In two to three months after childbirth, some women notice a lot of hair out in their brushes and combs. It can last from one to six months, but resolves completely in most cases. This condition is caused by hormonal changes that occur after a woman's body recovers from her pregnancy.
Birth control pills
Women who have a genetic predisposition to suffer from alopecia androgenetic can make it happen at a much younger age by taking birth control pills. The hormonal changes that occur trigger the early androgenetic alopecia. If a woman has a history of loss female model in her family she should advise her doctor before going the pill. After stopping the pill the woman may notice that her hair begins to pay later, two or three months. This may continue for six months when she usually stops. In some cases, the process can not be reversed and the woman may not regrow some hair that was lost.
INFLUENCES OF DISEASE
Since the follicle is very sensitive it does respond to imbalances in the body. Most causes of hair loss disease or illness is temporary and resolves itself after the body is back to a healthy state.
High, fever severe infection, flu serious
Sometimes, one to three months after a high fever, severe infection or flu, a person may experience hair loss, it is usually temporary and corrects itself.
Thyroid disease.
Both an overactive thyroid and an underactive thyroid can lead to hair loss. Thyroid disease can be diagnosed by your physician with laboratory tests. Hair loss associated with disease thyroid can be reversed with proper treatment.
Deficient diet
Some people who go on diets low protein, or have severely abnormal eating habits, may suffer from protein malnutrition. To help save protein the body moves growing hair resting phase. If this happens massive amounts of hair loss may occur two to three months later. A sign of this is the case, hair can be extracted by the roots fairly easily. This condition can be reversed and prevented by eating the right amount of protein. It is very important when a system to maintain adequate protein intake.
Medications
Some prescription drugs in May cause temporary hair falling to a low percentage of people. Examples of such drugs include some of the drugs used for elements following: gout, arthritis, depression, heart problems, high blood pressure, or blood thinner. High doses of vitamin A, may also cause hair loss.
Cancer Treatments.
Chemotherapy and radiation therapy causes hair loss because it stops hair cells from dividing. Hairs become thin and break them out of the scalp. This occurs one to three weeks after treatment. Patients can lose up to 90 percent of their scalp hair. The hair grows back after treatment and patients may want to get wigs before treatment. There are some drugs in development to help prevent this hair loss to occur.
Low serum iron
Iron causes deficiency occasionally loss of hair. Some people do not have enough iron in their diets or may not fully absorb iron in their diet. Women who have heavy mai iron deficiency. Low iron can be detected by laboratory tests and can be treated by iron tablets.
Major surgery / chronic illness
Anyone who has a major operation – a tremendous shock to the system – may find an increase in hair shedding within one to three months later. The condition reverses itself within a few months, but people who have a severe chronic disease May hair postponed indefinitely. A little known fact is that the transplant surgery hair can actually cause additional hair loss or "spillovers shock. "Hairs lost from shock fallout usually do not regrow.
Alopecia Areata
This type of hair loss is supposed to be caused by the immune system reacts to hair follicles as if they were antibodies and shutting them. Hair loss is usually limited to a room-sized area and all the hairs in the area is lost leaving a patch completely smooth and round. In a more severe rarer called alopecia totalis, all the hairs on the whole body is lost, including the eyelashes. Treatments include topical medications, a special type of light treatment, or drugs in some cases.
Fungus Infection (Ringworm) Scalp
Ringworm caused by a yeast infection (which has nothing to do with worms) begins with small patches of scaling that can spread and result in broken hair, redness, swelling and oozing same. This contagious disease is most common in children and oral medication will cure.
Stress
Stress can cause hair loss is some people. Usually it occurs 3 months after the stressful event has occurred and it may take 3 months after the period Stress has ended for hair growth to resume. In most cases it is temporary if the person is not predisposed to genetic androgenetic alopecia or, if they are stress may trigger the onset of genetic hair loss or may worsen the loss of androgen hair.
MECHANICAL DAMAGE CAUSES OF HAIR LOSS
Damage to the hair can be self-inflicted, either by means of intentional or unintentional. Some people through stress continuously pull at their hair until it comes out. Styling hair by bleaching, braiding and straightening can also cause damage and results in hair to lose.
Trichotillomania or Hair
Some adults, children and less often play with their hair by pulling it or twisting. This may be part of a behavior problem or bad habit that is often done unconsciously. If the problem is not stopped permanent hair loss can result from constant stress on the hair. It is better to seek professional help Mental Health to resolve this problem.
Hair Styling Treatments
Many people change the appearance of their hair with chemical treatments like dyes, tints, bleaches, straighteners, relaxing and permanent waves. If done correctly and is using products of good reputation, its rare to have damage. However, hair can become weak and break if any of these chemicals are used too often. Hair can also break if the solution is left too long, if two procedures are performed on the same day, or if bleach is applied on previously bleached hair. Some chemical relaxants contain powerful chemicals and there have been cases of people get chemical burns from these products resulting in permanent hair loss. Do not go to qualified hairdressers and if doing it yourself make sure you only use reputable products and follow the product instructions.
Hair Braids / Weaves
Several black women and some black men braid their hair or wear hair armor. Under normal conditions these cause no problems. However, if the frame is attached too tight or the braids are wrapped too tight, they put constant tension on the hair follicle. If this is done for an extended period of time permanent hair loss may result. This is known as Traction Alopecia and is fairly common among people who braid or weave their hair. Make sure the person applying the braids or weave is qualified to do and not to braids or weave continuously for long periods of time.
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About the Author
Gary Heron is one of Europe’s leading trichologists for the past 20 years dealing directly with every type of hair loss and scalp disorder for both men and women of all ages and ethnic backgrounds.
Gary has had over twenty years’experience in dealing with every type of hair or scalp problem. For example, he helps people suffering with scalp disorders such as psoriasis, seborrhoeic dermatitis, folliculitis or from hair loss and thinning caused by genetic baldness, alopecia or through chemical or physical damage.www.thewestminsterpractice.com
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