Hair grows
everywhere on the human skin except on the palms of our hands and the soles of
our feet, but many hairs are so fine they're virtually invisible. Hair is made
up of a protein called keratin that is produced in hair follicles in the outer
layer ofskin. As follicles produce new hair
cells, old cells are being pushed out through the surface of the skin at the
rate of about six inches a year. The hair you can see is actually a string of
dead keratin cells. The average adult head has about 100,000 to 150,000 hairs
and loses up to 100 of them a day; finding a few stray hairs on your hairbrush
is not necessarily cause for alarm.
At any one time,
about 90% of the hair on a person's scalp is growing. Each follicle has its own
life cycle that can be influenced by age, disease, and a wide variety of other
factors. This life cycle is divided into three phases:
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Anagen -- active hair growth that
lasts between two to six years
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Catagen -- transitional hair
growth that lasts two to three weeks
·
Telogen -- resting phase that
lasts about two to three months; at the end of the resting phase the hair is
shed and a new hair replaces it and the growing cycle starts again.
As people age,
their rate of hair growth slows.
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Involutional alopecia is a natural condition in which the hair gradually thins with age.
More hair follicles go into the resting phase, and the remaining hairs become
shorter and fewer in number.
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Androgenic alopecia is a genetic condition that can affect both men and women. Men
with this condition, called male pattern baldness, can begin suffering hair
loss as early as their teens or early 20s. It's
characterized by a receding hairline and gradual disappearance of hair from the
crown and frontal scalp. Women with this condition, called female pattern
baldness, don't experience noticeable thinning until their 40s or later. Women
experience a general thinning over the entire scalp, with the most extensive
hair loss at the crown.
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Alopecia areata often
starts suddenly and causes patchy hair loss in children and young adults. This
condition may result in complete baldness (alopecia totalis). But in about
90% of people with the condition, the hair returns within a few years.
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Alopecia universalis causes all body hair to fall out, including the eyebrows,
eyelashes, and pubic hair.
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Trichotillomania, seen most frequently in children, is a psychological disorder in
which a person pulls out one's own hair.
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Telogen effluvium is temporary hair thinning over the scalp that occurs because of
changes in the growth cycle of hair. A large number of hairs enter the resting
phase at the same time, causing hair shedding and subsequent thinning
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the treatment of alopecia areata, an immune
system disorder which causes scalp hair loss, often in small patches. Treating alopecia
is usually a trial and error process, experimenting to find the most
appropriate remedy for each patient. Fortunately, most experts believe the
patient's body ultimately decides when to regrow hair since hair follicles aren't
lost or damaged during an active alopecia episode. ArganRain Anti-Hair Loss
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