Potential Causes To Hair Loss

Hair being considered as one of the most valuable asset to women and to some men in a few cases, is meant to bring out the beauty  of the face and dynamism of the facial features to a great extent.

With technology modernizing towards glory, preventing hair loss and finding new solutions to address it is not an issue any more. If the number of falling hair is in between the normal ranking, then the scalp experiences, new growth at the simultaneous time, resulting in the baldness not appearing to a greater extent. It is only noticeable if there is a disrupted hair growth cycle or destruction of hair follicles due to things like growth of scar tissues.

Though it is not quite each to decipher the real cause of your hair loss, but still the majorly common factors which result in drastic hair loss are as follows:

v Side Effects From Medications

Hair loss can be occurring due to reasons of side effects from powerful medications which are consumed for cancer, heart problems, birth control, high blood pressure and arthritis, Vitamin A tablets, etc.

v Hereditary Condition

This is the most common a reason for hair loss in both men and women. The male pattern baldness is quite predictable and there is a receding hairline along with balding towards the crown region. While it is a diffused pattern of hair loss for women and there is an overall hair thinning, known as Androgenic alopecia. Though the time when the hair loss is faced may be different, as men experience the baldness very early (since puberty in some cases), but it is post 30+ fro the women that hair thinning and miniaturization is caused.

v Hormonal Imbalance and Adverse Medical Conditions

·        Scalp Infection

Often the scalp is invaded by ring worms causing scaly and patchy baldness along with hair loss. Though after the infection is cured the hair in those areas re-grows.

·        Scarring Alopecia

Scarring alopecia may cause permanent hair loss and often due to the skin disorders which occurs due to this may result in lichen planus, sarcoidosis, lupus, etc.

·        Trichotillomania

A Psychological disorder, where the patient feels the irresistible urge  of pulling their own hair and only after doing the same, so they feel satisfied.

·        Abnormal Secretion Of Hormone With Mutational Change

This may offer during pregnancy or due to menopause. Hypothyroid hormone secretion can also cause hair loss.

There can be some lesser known and less common causes of hair loss, which you need to keep in mind in order to help you avoid the further hair loss:

ü Physical stress

ü Emotional Shock

ü Radiation Therapy of head

ü Certain Hairstyles like cornrows

ü Hot oil hair Treatment may cause inflammation of hair follicles