Hair Loss Significance In Women

As per the experts’ estimation, it is seen that almost 1 out of 2 women have experienced thinning of hair in their life before reaching a reasonable age even.

It is noticed, accepted and expected by many that men are more likely to lose their hair as compared to women.  Thus, when things take a different turn, and women begin to lose more hairs and witness a visible scalp, which was earlier covered by shinny cascading hairs, they are devastated psychologically like any other serious disease, which affects their physical health too.

Androgenic alopecia or male pattern baldness, which is common in most men, is an unnatural impact of androgen hormones leading to miniaturization and shedding of hair among women.  In case of women, the role of DHT has not yet discovered, but researchers are getting sure that genetic disposition is supposedly the foremost reason causing hair thinning in females after the genes.

Patients witnessing a lot of hair loss suffer from body image issues and lost self esteem and broken confidence.

FPHL – Female Pattern Hair Loss

This is the most common cause of progressive hair loss in women, affecting almost 30 million women. This pattern leads to thinning of hair towards the top and the crown of the scalp, with the center partition gradually widening. The hair follicles are miniaturized, leading to a shorter, smaller, more brittle, and thinner hair. The nutritional stores in the body shifts away from the hairs to the other vital organs like heart and brain causing a shortage for the hair portion.

Women are usually seen to be suffering from more health hazards than men do and if a woman decides to undergo the surgery, it requires more meticulous study behind the exact reason behind it, which includes scalp biopsies and blood tests too.

Some of the diseases which may have lead to hair loss  in women are as follows:

·        Alopecia Areata

This medical condition causes hair loss from the entire body in a pattern of oval and round patches. Repeated loss of hair in the same region. The severity of this condition may cause complete hair loss in areas of eyelashes, eyebrows and scalp.

·        Trichotillomania

Happening due to obsessive compulsive disorder, this is a psychological condition with numerous broken hair fibers as a result of the patients pulling their own hears from several areas giving a patchy appearance.

·        Traction Alopecia

The condition crops up as a result of mainly tightened hairstyles kept intact for a prolonged time. Mainly seen in African-American women, who prefer tighter braids and the cornrows, resulting in chronic pulling of hair follicles.