Hair Loss and Medical Care

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The hair has to man a great aesthetic importance increasingly important for social relations, so it is essential for man to know the causes of hair loss and possible treatments.

Causes of hair loss

Heredity or genetics, hair loss, like eye color is an inherited trait. The hair is getting thin with the passage of time and eventually disappear when the follicles die.

Contrary to popular belief, the genes that cause hair loss are borne by both sides of the family, maternal and paternal. These are manifested quite difficult to predict, may not affect other children and grandchildren, some siblings while others enjoy a lush head of hair. Except for severe cases, you start to notice after 20 years and is accentuated from the thirties.

Common baldness in men is a typical distribution with absence of hair in frontal areas, parietal and temporal sparing in occipital area.

Stress or emotional factors: stress is an aggravating factor in hair loss. Unlike the genetic factor is often present with a fall diffusely over the scalp (alopecia) or localized in specific areas, circular (alopecia areata).

Bad food, bad diets balanced as a result bring an imbalance of nutrients to the body. The lack of proteins can alter the normal hair production and cause hairs to enter the resting phase and two or three months there may be a significant hair loss. Anemia and iron deficiency can cause alopecia, which is usually reversible.

Diseases: Hair loss can occur after filing some kind of infectious process, such as fungi, high fever, surgery, etc. Also in the case of disorders of thyroid function, this occurs in both hyper as in hypothyroidism. In these cases it is necessary to carry out treatment to normalize thyroid dysfunction.

Loss also occurs if there is a dysfunction of male hormones, called androgens, or female known as estrogens. In these cases the correction of the imbalance prevents hair loss. Too often accompanies diseases such as lupus or diabetes, and is usually an early warning of the onset of these diseases. Read the rest of this entry »

Alopecia is the medical term used to describe partial hair loss or baldness. In the next article we will discuss hair loss and types of permanent hair loss.

Most people experience hair loss as you age. However, people are increasingly discovering that your hair is becoming increasingly thin, bald areas have emerged and the scalp is clearly visible when looking in the mirror. Hair loss affects not only men but many women of all ages.

This condition can affect any body part that is covered with hair including the scalp, eyebrows, beard or pubic area. There are several types of alopecia associated with male or female hair loss that are classified by cause. Some are permanent while other types are temporary. Read the rest of this entry »