What is the Cause of Hair Loss?
For decades men, women and even children have had to stand the
embarasment caused by hair loss. There are number for reasons
for hair loss. Let us have a quick discussion on "What is the
cause hair loss?"
There are so many causes for hair loss. When we say "hair loss"
most of you may think about the usual types of hair loss, which
includes male pattern baldness, female pattern baldness, and
even alopecia areata.. But there are so many other reasons for
hair loss.
Before knowing the factors that may cause hair loss, we should
know the normal hair shedding process. Do you know about 10% of
our hair is shedding daily at a given time? Hair losing at this
level is a normal phenomenon. If the hair falling percentage
exceeds the ten percent, then it is an alarming problem.
If you have undergone any surgery or any sort of illness, then
it may cause hair loss. This is mainly due to the amount of
stress you have acquired due to the operation and also the side
effect of the medication you have taken for preventing infection
during your illness.
Sometimes hormone problem may also cause hair loss. During the
hormonal imbalance, you may experience hair loss. This can
easily be corrected by injecting appropriate hormones to correct
the imbalance.
Pregnancy may also cause hair loss. Hair loss is noticed among
the pregnant women even after delivery.. This is also related to
hormones. In this condition, there is no need to worry because
the hair regrowth will be back to normal after some months.
In addition to all these factors, one important factor that may
cause hair loss is how you wear your hair. In case if you are a
woman and having a tendency of wearing your hair in tight
fashion, then you might suffer from hair loss.
Some medicines, which may cause hair loss irrespective of sex,
are anticoagulants, wincrysticin or onchocryticin (Cancer
medication), medicines used for gout, birth control pills,
antidepressants and Vitamin A (if it is taken in excessive
amount). Sulpha drugs may cause hair loss as well.
Sometimes underlying diseases such as lupus or diabetes may also
cause hair loss. Hence it is very important to detect the cause
for hair loss as early as possible to stop the hair falling.
Once you have lost so much hair it is very difficult to treat
the condition because prevention is better than cure.
As you have gone through these factors which may cause hair
loss, it is clearly evident that there are so many reasons for
hair loss and surprisingly in some cases the hair is growing
back. Hence don't worry about the hair loss and also do not
panic too much because panic itself may cause hair loss!