There is no doubt that hair loss is an unwanted phenomenon for both women and men, but it disturbs women so much that they may feel very ashamed of losing their hair, because of the close connection between beauty and full hair covering their heads.
It is believed that there are approximately 30 circumstance that cause hair loss in women, many of which can not be solved with proper treatment. Women with hair loss should consult a doctor to determine the cause of hair loss and eliminate any serious health conditions before evaluating hair loss treatments.
Causes of hair loss in women
Follow a bad diet or malnutrition
Your exposure to a diet that is wrong and ill-considered to lose weight immediately leads to hair loss.
Contraceptive pills
Women who use contraceptive pills as a means of contraception are exposed to loss of a large amount of blood and with the loss of a large amount of blood occurs a severe weakness in turn leads to hair loss due to lack of iron in the body.
Hairstyles affecting the scalp (Testicular alopecia)
Alopecia is an area on the scalp free of hair
Excessive psychological stress
Psychological stress negatively affects hair growth, leading to immediate and rapid falls.
Iron deficiency
Anemia caused by iron deficiency in the body leads to hair loss, but it is a major cause of hair loss
Hormonal imbalances such as pregnancy and menopause
This can happen during pregnancy. Hair increases during pregnancy due to increased female hormones and falls after birth when the level of these hormones suddenly decreases.
Major surgery
Surgery and medication also cause psychological pressure on the patient, which in turn leads to hair loss, but it may be a temporary fall away with the disappearance of the presentation, ie with healing and going stress and nerve pressure, bringing your hair back to normal and to normal growth
Some types of medications
Medicines or drugs are generic substances that are overused, such as drugs used to treat cancer (methotrexate) and anti-cell division drugs that affect the life span of hair, which also leads to hair loss.
The endocrine glands that affect thyroid function also lead to hair loss
Thyroid hormone deficiency leads to the lack of developing follicles and shows hair is not shiny, and falls quickly. The thyroid secretion and hormones were explained in a previous article (Causes of hair loss in general).
Systemic diseases such as lupus
SLE is a disease of connective tissue that leads to hair loss and also obstruction of the hair follicle, a disease that is often treated with corticosteroids.
Genetic diseases
Genetics play a major role in hair loss, which is one of the most common factors, and is caused by several factors combined together, age and hormonal changes and heredity in which the hair gradually weakens and diminishes its density until it reaches baldness sometimes. This is because the person may inherit from his parents Monday the status of hair loss and not from the father Alone or from the mother alone and hair loss genetic spread among men, but also affects women make women’s hair very light.
Dear my dear, the stages of hair growth and the rate of natural fall
Hair follows a three-phase growth cycle characterized by synchronizing:
Development of ANAGEN
A basic and sensitive stage for the construction of healthy hair. At this stage, the hair cells are divided rapidly, with new hair forming and growing.
At the growth stage, the hair is particularly sensitive. Tension, disease, or malnutrition can cause hair to stop functioning and decrease growth. As a result, the normal rate of hair in the growth and end phase is impaired, and the hair is increasingly falling.
Catagen retraction
This takes a few weeks. The process of dividing the hair cells and shrink the roots to about 1/3 of its original size. Then, the hair is separated from the roots and moved upward in the scalp.
The telogen finish phase
The resting phase takes about three to four months, during which the hair falls off either spontaneously or is pushed out by the growing new hair so that a new growth cycle can begin.
Each stage has its specific characteristics that determine the length of the hair.
All three stages occur simultaneously, one of the hair follicles may be growing, while the other is in the final stages. There is always approximately 82% of the total hair volume in the growth phase (hair growing), and only about 17% in the resting phase (hair in the terminal phase). If this rate is not balanced, there may be undesirable results, such as hair loss at a rate greater than its growth rate again, and hair loss significantly.
Interpretation of hair loss
The main cause of hair loss is imbalance between the normal growth process of hair in the growing stage and hair falling in the phase of the terminal quickly enter many of the follicles in the phase of the end and deviate the stages of growth from the normal path increases hair loss rate of growth rate.
And you should know that not every hair loss is a normal hair loss as we will know later.
Normal rate of hair loss
There is a natural rate of hair loss. Medical research differed in stability at this rate, but it ranges from 80 to 100 hairs per day. American research has indicated that the normal rate of hair loss ranges from 50 to 100 hairs per day. Each hair cycle has its own stages Hair growth, so your hair does not need to be treated if it falls at this rate and is called a natural fallout rate.