Hair Loss - Managing Your Hair Loss

Introduction

Hair loss will affect almost everyone in the U.S. sometime in his or her life. Whether it's from stress, medicine, or the male or female pattern baldness, starting to lose it's a real emotional event.

When you start losing hair you need to manage their loss through the recognition you have lost it, determine why it was lost, covering your loss, and stopping and re-grow hair.

Recognizing your hair loss

Recognizing that you are losing your hair is one of the first things you must do in order to effectively manage. Usually a person will lose between 50-150 strands of hairs a day, and then replaced with new hair. More than that means there might be another reason other than natural causes for the loss.

There is no need to count your hair any day,. You'll know you've lost more than the normal amount of hair

In my case I started losing hair in my mid 50's when I noticed a hair in my sink, my pillow, my brush, and even my wife got in on the act and told me that I lost my dryer.

Determine Cause

Once you recognize that you are losing your hair, your next step is to determine why you are losing it. There are many reasons why this could be happening, conditions such as stress, medications you are taking, illness or even male or female pattern baldness (this is the most common type of hair loss) are some conditions that could be causing your hair loss.

The best way to determine what is causing your loss is to visit your dermatologist or physician. If you try to define yourself, you can misdiagnosis and missed a chance to stop your loss and hair regrowth

to conceal your hair loss

After identifying your hair loss, your next step is to cover their loss, until you find a way to stop it and re-grow hair. Some of the ways you can cover up to wear a hat or scarf, use a shampoo or conditioner adds volume to your hair, different hairstyles, and you can even buy a hair building fibers.

stop and re-grow your lost hair

Once you have determined what is causing your hair loss, you can stop your hair loss and even re-grow it. If your loss is due to problems other than male or female pattern baldness, simply correcting the problem causing the loss will usually stop further loss and your hair should grow back without any additional effort.

If it is caused by male or female pattern baldness, then you need to make a special effort to stop your loss and regrowth. Before the end of the 20th century, there was nothing he could do but accept the reality.

Now, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved drug that can be used by both men and women suffer from hair loss to stop their hair loss and actually re-grow hair. This medicine, called minoxidil, was successful in close to 70% of people who use it to stop and re-grow hair.