Causes of Hair Loss

One of the major issues faced by all especially the teens is hair fall. The loss of hair has become a serious problem and people are keen in identifying an effective solution to it. To prevent hair loss it is always good to be aware of the causes of hair loss.

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The usual cycle of hair growth generally lasts for 2 to 3 years. It is a fact that every hair grows approximately 1 cm per month during this growing phase.

Almost 90 percent of the hair on the scalp keeps growing at any time. The remaining 10 percent of the hair on the scalp seems to be in the resting phase.

After duration of 3 to 4 months the resting hair falls out and it is replaced by the new hair. As a part of this cycle it is quite normal to shed some hair each day.

Sometimes it happen that people may experience too much of hair loss. Hair loss is not specific to any person. It affects men, women and children.

Some of the common causes of hair loss can be any of the following:

Illness:

In general the factors that cause hair loss are many. For instance if a person suffers from major illness or undergone a surgery, he may experience excessive loss of hair. As this hair loss is related to the stress of the illness it is temporary. Lupus also can cause hair loss. Causes of hair loss also include hormonal problems. In case if the thyroid gland is over active or underactive, hair loss may be distinct. Such type of hair loss can be rectified by treating thyroid disease.

The type of treatment focuses on the anti-cancer (cytotoxic) drugs, for destroying the cancerous cells

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including lymphoma and leukaemia, is called Chemotherapy. It can be used as an isolated treatment for some types of cancers or as a mixture with other cancer treatments like radiotherapy, surgery, hormonal therapy or biological therapies.

The Reasons of Giving Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is suggested widely to treat some kinds of cancer, especially which can metastasize in other parts, because it invades all the cancerous cells present in the whole body. While other treatments only focus on the cancer cells at specific areas.

• It may be given to shrink a cancer so that in the second step like surgery it can be removed easily.
• Likewise chemotherapy may be used to destroy the remaining cells after a surgery or radiotherapy to improve the results.
• This treatment can prolong life by shrinking the cancer and minimizing its development. This therapy is called Palliative Chemotherapy

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Hair loss may surprise you but remember you are not the only person with this condition. There must be an underlying cause of hair loss. This root cause can easily be diagnosed by a hair restoration specialist who can advise you the best treatment according to your condition. Both sexes suffer hair loss but it is more common in male. Additionally baldness patterns are also different for both sexes.

Mechanism of hair loss

Hair production consists of two steps, first growth then rest. The course always differs from person to person. Generally growth of scalp hair known as anagen, usually last for two to three years. Meanwhile, scalp hair grows up to half inch. Second phase is named as telogen and this phase prolong for 3 to 4 months. At the end of this phase the hair falls down and new hair take its place. At the end of the second phase the growth phase become active so these two phase work in a cycle.

One can get easily confused and tricked by the emergence of abundant products for hair loss, both in men and women. Although hair loss is a natural phenomenon, which is associated with age, people, especially women use all means to keep up their appearances. According to an estimation, in U.S. 80 percent of men aged 35 to 65 years, suffer hair lose.

One of the most popular products, now a day available in market is Provillus. The following are the characteristics which had made it the best hair loss product.

Effective for both sexes

This product solves the problem for both, men and women separately. An essential ingredient Saw Palmetto, only found in men’s version (but not in women‘s version), could be potentially unsafe to unborn children.

Natural Remedy

Provillus aims to overturn the natural effects of hair loss, rather than providing temporary solution to the problem. Moreover, it attempts to do this, scientifically with natural ingredients. For natural hair loss, testosterone (a sex hormone) is responsible. This hormone when converted into dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and added to the enzyme 5-alpha reductase, ultimately cause atrophy of hair follicle causing thinning of hair, hair loss and stop the natural process of re-growth.

Researchers from England and Germany find some new genetic links to male pattern baldness.

Felix F. Brockschmidt, who is one of the authors of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bonn, says: “This one is the second link to the kind of hair loss that a lot of men and women have to face with increasing age.” The study has been published online in the journal Nature Genetics Oct.12 issue.

“The first gene that we know about is found on the X chromosome and it is considered the most important for hair loss (alopecia) and the new locus that have just found would be the second most important,” Brockschmidt said.

“The findings would pave a new better way for genetic tests to single out men who may suffer hair loss as they age. The X chromosomes locus screening will prove helpful to show the risk of male pattern baldness in certain men.” He added

Hair Loss

It is normal to drop between 50-100 hairs a day. This is the constituent of hair regeneration and their

growth. Today, millions of the people have been suffering from hair loss. There are many causes of hair loss which are discussed as follow.

Hormonal change

The hormones play an important role in the growth of the hairs but they can drop the hairs of men as well as women.

The hormonal factor is the most common cause of thinning hairs. The reason of hair loss is the androgen DHT which is known as the Dihydrotestosterone.

It is the inherited constituent which belongs to amalgam of androgens and testoids.

Childbirth factor

Hairs are lost during the period of pregnancy which is known as the Telogen phase. After giving birth to a child, majority of the women face situation of the hair loss which is normally carried on 2-3 months. The doctors are also of the view that the hairs are lost due to hormonal variations.