Hair Loss - Where Do You Classify Your Hair Loss?

Introduction

of hair loss can be classified into two different classifications - Protection and heredity. If you lost your hair, it is important to understand the differences so you can stop your hair loss and start re-growing your hair. Let's define these two terms, so that we can understand the difference:

• Environmental - This is defined as hair loss that is caused by external factors, eg, medicine, which are conditions that can be controlled.
  
• Heredity - conditions that are beyond your control, for example, female pattern baldness, which are unavoidable.

Lets go through some conditions that can cause loss of hair from each of these conditions.

Environmental

Some diseases that fall into this category and how you can stop your hair loss and regrowth are:

Drugs - Some medications can cause you to develop probleme.Onaj hair that comes to every ones mind that the chemotherapy. However, there are many other medicines that can cause hair loss, such as birth control pills, acne medication, steroids, thyroid medicine, and much more.

After you stop chemotherapy hair usually starts to grow back. In other cases, the physician should be consulted to change your medication.

Diet - If you have a balanced diet you should not have problems with your diet the cause of your loss. But if your diet consists of large amounts of saturated fats and high amounts of salt, you can feel your hair fall out. Refer to a change in diet with unsaturated fats, such as wild salmon, and eat more dark green leafy vegetables.

Stress - You May not realize it, but stress can be the cause of your loss. It happened to me and I did not realize it. When I worked I could not figure out what is causing my hair fall out, then I retired and my hair loss stopped. Then I realized that my job stress causes my hair loss.

If you feel that stress is causing your hair loss, you need to determine the stress riser and remove it. Some of the stress components can be a divorce, your job, death in immediate family, and even pregnancy.

Heredity

Let your hair loss that may result from this condition are:

androgenetic alopecia - This is the most common type Heredity causes hair loss in men and women in the United States today. This is also known by the common notion of male and female pattern baldness.

In the late 20th Century Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two drugs to help with male and female pattern baldness. One of them, Minoxidil , approved for use by men and women to treat hair loss caused by this condition, and is shown to be between sixty and seventy percent effective.

Alopecia Areata - Alopecia areata is a condition that is caused by your immune system works on your hair follicles. It was identified patches of your hair falls out and affects mostly young people and adolescents, but can affect older people also.

This condition usually disappears without treatment, but you should see a dermatologist for treatment if you suspect that you have this condition. May your dermatologist to prescribe a special shampoo or conditioner to treat this problem

Conclusion

If you suffer from hair loss, you should visit a dermatologist to determine whether it is caused by Environmental or Heredity . In most cases it can be treated and stopped.