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