Hair Loss Causes

Hair Loss Causes

        

        
       Hair loss causes are a quite controversial issue as there is no general agreement about what are the main factors that cause loss of hair. As a matter of fact, different clinics have their own opinion on this problem and develop their own ways of treatment accordingly. Regrow-hair.org is by no means preconceived in this case, so in this section we’ll give you a synopsis of different views of medical professionals taken together. Some scientists consider the male hormone testosterone to be one of the major hair loss causes. Testosterone is closely connected with heredity. If a man has inherited the necessary genes for loss of hair, a little of testosterone is formed by some of the hair roots into a derivative called dihydrotestosterone. And in fact, it is dihydrotestosterone that is responsible for hair loss. So dihydrotestosterone is present in the surface sebum of hereditably predisposed people. When a hair is shed it enters the follicle reacts inside there chemically. Dihydrotestosterone miniaturizes the hair root and follicle and the new hair growing through it will be finer. When the new fine hair is later shed dihydrotestosterone again miniaturizes the follicle and hair root and so on until baldness occurs. Thus, male hormones, precisely, testosterone, are sponsoring baldness. Actually, male hormones start “working” when a man is sexually mature, so there’s little danger of hair loss before puberty.Among other hair loss causes there are also the following:

Emotional strains, stresses and nervous disorders

Aging,

Infections,

Hormonal imbalance,

Polluted environment,

Toxic substances,

Injury and impairment,

Radiation.

        It is normal to lose between 50-100 hairs a day, this is part of the hair renewal process. However most people suffer from excessive hair loss at one time in their life. There are many reasons for this including medication, radiation, chemotherapy, and exposure to chemicals, hormonal and nutritional factors, thyroid disease,generalized or local skin disease, and stress. Many of these causes are temporary and a few are permanent. These are some of the more common reason for hair loss.

 Alopecia Areata This type of hair loss is believed to be caused by the immune system reacting to hair follicles as if they were antibodies and shutting them down. The hair loss is usually limited to a coin sized area and all the hair in the area is lost leaving a totally smooth round patch. In a more severe rarer condition called Alopecia Totalis, all hair on the entire body is lost, including the eyelashes. Treatments include topical medications, a special kind of light treatment, or in some cases drugs.

Stress  Stress can cause hair loss is some people. Usually it occurs 3 months after the stressful event has occured and it may take 3 months after the stress period has ended for the hair growth to resume. In most cases it is temporary if the person is not predisposed to genetic or Androgenic Alopecia, if they are stress may trigger the onset of genetic hair loss.