Hairloss – Signs and Symptoms

The most common form of hair loss is Androgenetic Alopecia which is also known as male and female pattern Hairloss. Alopecia is the medical term for hair loss. It is estimated that 40 million men and 20 million women in the United States alone experience hair loss. However, the point here states that - early detection is key to restoring your hair and preventing any further hair loss.

We will now look at what the signs and symptoms of Hairloss are:

• One of the common signs that a man is suffering from male pattern Hairloss - Androgenetic Alopecia is that they will lose hair from around the front hairline and forehead as well as on the top of the head.
• In case of women, the situation seems different. A woman's hair starts thinning right across the scalp.
• In Alopecia Areata - one form of Hairloss - there will be hair loss in patches rather than it being located to one particular area of the head.
• In case of alopecia Capitis Totalis - a man will start losing his hair completely but it is not as common as Androgenetic alopecia.

There are many options available to you to restore your hair and prevent further hair loss. There are a number of herbal solutions available that are designed to block DHT a form of testosterone which is responsible for 90 percent of hair loss. TrichoZed is one of the better known herbal supplements that is designed to block DHT from causing further hair loss and bring dead follicles back to life.
For more details on TrichoZed – visit its website – www.tichozed.com

Different Forms of Baldness!!

Baldness is referred to as “lacking hair on the head”. It is the most common health problem faced by men and women now a days. There are different forms of baldness including:

• Androgenic alopecia: - It is characterized by progressive hair thinning and also known as “male pattern baldness”. It is mainly found in male.

Androgenic alopecia is also called as androgenetic alopecia or alopecia
androgenetica

• Alopecia areata: - In this, loss of some of the hair occur from the head. It is an autoimmune disorder also known as "spot baldness”

• Alopecia totalis: - It is characterized by loss of all head hair.

• Alopecia universalis: - It is characterized by loss of all hair from the head and the body

Morever there are also other forms of Baldness i.e.

• Traction alopecia: - It occurs in people who have ponytails or cornrows. These people mainly pull on their hair with extreme force.

• Trichotillomania: - In this condition, hair breaks from the scalp instead of getting absent. This condition mainly occurs due to compulsive pulling and bending of the hairs. Trichotillomania most commonly occur in children than in adults

• Cicatricial alopecia leads to localized or diffuse hair loss. In case of tumors and skin outgrowths, localized baldness occurs.

• Certain diseases like hypothyroidism leads to hair loss including frontal area. It is characterized by thinning of the outer third of the eyebrows

• Telogen effluvium: -This type of hair loss occurs due to several health conditions such as severe stress, poisoning, surgery, childbirth, chemotherapy etc.

• Deficiency of iron results in thinning of the hair

• Mycotic infections lead to massive hair loss

Hair Loss and Its Types!!

Normal Hair Loss:

It is normal to lose 100 hairs per day, out of the 100,000 present on the average scalp. This normal hair loss may be due to certain factors:

• Some daily practices like shampooing, blow-drying, hair brushing can cause a few hairs to falls out
• Hair falls out after their average life span (single hair life span is 4.5 years). However they get replaced by new hair after 6 months
• Both men and women mainly start losing hair after the age of 30

Stress and Hair Loss:

It is completely true that stress leads to hair loss whether it is associated with injury, surgery or illnesses. Hair loss caused due to stress is of two types:

• Telogen effluvium: most common type of hair loss due to stress. It is not a severe type of hair loss, in this type the hair stops growing and lies dormant. Hair falls out 2 or 3 months later but then again grows back within 6-9 months.

• Alopecia areata: In this, hair loss occurs within weeks in the form of patches. It involves even body hair. During this type of hair fall, a white blood cell attack on the hair follicle. It requires proper treatment.

Heredity Hair loss:

In genetic hair loss the re-growth of hair is improper. It is associated with a number of factors:

• Age: The chances of hair loss increases with the age i.e. by age 30, 1 in 4 men are balding and by age 60, 2 in 3 men are balding
• Heredity or pattern baldness is more commonly found in men than in women.
• Pattern baldness is mainly associated with testosterone that is the reason why more men experiences pattern baldness