Women develop what is called female-pattern baldness
resulting in female hair loss whereby the hair becomes thin and very sparse
over the whole scalp. Baldness with women can cause various psychological
factors as well adding more stress and eventually they end up on a
merry-go-round situation.
Doctors are frequented regularly in the hope they can
cure the hair loss condition. They in turn ask about your diet and what
medications you are taking, if there have been any recent illnesses and the
type of hygiene used to keep your scalp healthy.
The doctor will also question your menstrual cycles, how
many pregnancies as well as if you are older your menopause symptoms. You will
have a full medical examination and blood tests will be carried out or the
doctor will take a biopsy sample from the scalp just to see if there are any
infections that may be causing the problem. This becomes extremely costly and
is ongoing.
Depending on what type of hair loss you have, will
depend entirely on what kind of treatment can be used. For instance if a
certain medication you are on is causing your hair to fall out, then the doctor
needs to change the medication. Should there be an infection of sorts causing
hair loss then a treatment will be prescribed in order to combat the condition.
And if it is hormonal, then the hormones need to be put back into balance again
and again with medication.
Women suffering from hair loss always ask whether it
could be due to improper hair care and hygiene. Yes it can also cause female
hair loss and mainly due to people pulling on the hair when using rollers, or
braiding the hair as well as tight ponytails. This is termed as traction
alopecia. One must be cautious when brushing or creating any tight hair style
that will pull on the scalp as eventually this will cause scarring to the
scalp.
Hot oil treatments or any sort of chemical like
permanent dyes and perming of the hair can cause severe inflammation to the
hair follicles and eventually will cause you to loss hair rapidly especially as
you get older. There are also so many products claiming that hair growth status
which do not work and out of desperation women just keep trying this and that
to no avail as well as money down the drain.
These are some of the medical conditions that can also
cause hair loss in women like renal failure, thyroid or liver disease,
childbirth or stopping or starting the birth control pill, severe stress even
very high fevers. Have a general or even local anaesthesia is known to cause
hair loss but only for a short while and the body then returns to normal around
6 weeks after having anaesthesia. Anaemia as well as hypo and hyperthyroidism
and a deficiency in essential fatty acids can result in hair loss, just to name
a few.
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