mercredi 3 avril 2013

What are the Causes of Thinning Hair?

By Allan Johns


There are many causes of thinning hair amongst humans. For example, you can suffer from effuviums, alopecia areata, scarring alopecia, congenital hypotrichosis, or have a fungal infection.

Different causes of hair loss affect the different sexes too. There's male-pattern and female-pattern hair loss as well.

There are also various diseases, conditions, adverse reaction to medication and high levels of stress that can be behind the cause of thinning hair.

Seeing a hair loss specialist is vitally important so they may accurately diagnose the type of condition you are suffering from. Once the cause, or multiple causes, is identified, treatment can begin.

You will need to provide your doctor or dermatologist with a thorough account of the symptoms you have been having. It is also important that you let the medical person know how long you have been experiencing excessive hair loss.

A list of the foods you eat, all the symptoms you have been experiencing, and the amount of stress in your life etc will all help your doctor to identify the condition you happen to be suffering from.

The term effluviums means, "outflow". The condition known as effluviums is a type of hairloss that affects different phases of the hair growth cycle.

A second cause of hair loss, Alopecia Areata, is a type of condition affected by your own immune system. The hair follicles are where all hair growth begins and it is here where Alopecia Areata attacks. Although it occurs at any age, this type of thinning happens most often in those younger than age 20.

Cicatrical alopecia, known also as scarring alopecia, firstly causes irreversible damage to your hair follicles and leaves behind scar tissue on the scalp.

Congenital Hypotrichosis is when no hair growth occurs at all and is a genetic disease so not technically one of the causes of thinning hair. Unfortunately, there are not usually any treatments for this type of problem so sufferers must either accept baldness or use hair pieces or other forms of covering up the head.

One of the other causes of thinning hair is Fungal infection and is commonly seen in children and teens. The infection can be treated with antifungal medications and the hair will then grow back to normal.

With so many causes of hair loss, it is critical that you seek an accurate diagnosis, in turn leading to the correct form of treatment.

Most types of thinning will have easily diagnosed causes, leading to appropriate hair loss treatments. Your doctor can explain about the different types of conditions and also discuss the type you actually have plus the treatment options available to you.




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