9th December, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments
People who note hair falling out, thinning, or appearing in large amounts on their comb or brush must consult a dermatologist. With correct diagnosis, many people with hair loss can be helped. A dermatologist will evaluate a patient’s hair-loss problem to find the cause so they can discover whether the problem will resolve on its own or medical treatment is needed. Continue reading Read More
6th December, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments
Lately, hair falling out has proven to be a highly controversial issue.Baldness can be experienced nowadays by both men and women and even though science seems to have developed a lot in the last decade, remedies for women hair thinning are not that many as we would like.Specialists say we typically lose in a day up to 100 hairs.Of course the hair regenerates continuously and this is why we don’t get to be bold in one month of losing hair daily. The reason why women lose so much hair is mostly due to hormonal imbalances that occur during pregnancy and afterwards, if taking certain birth control pills, and during menopause. Genetics can play an important part into hair fall too. Almost all the people lose hair either gradually or suddenly, but the fundamental causes vary from individual to individual. Scientific evidence is increasingly suggesting that excess estrogen is the root cause for hair thinning and ways are to be devised to maintain estrogen at adequate levels. Everybody has an opinion on hair thinning, and nearly everybody has heard of a supposed cure for hair thinning. The bad truth is that there are no miracle cures, and there is very little that you can do to avoid hair thinning if you are a candidate for male (or female) pattern baldness. Continue reading Read More
3rd December, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments
Hair fall is a problem that concerns both women and men nowadays.Some people take their baldness as a sign of charisma and some feel something lacking in body image and self concept particularly by cancer patients where the radiation therapy makes it ugly and irreversible. Both men and women alike use an array of hair products to enhance the beauty of their hair. These hair products comprise shampoos, conditioners, hair styling gels, hair sprays, dyes, mousse and a myriad other products. Although these products guarantee to make the hair look attractive, which they do, they also cause damage to the hair strands and hair root leading to the loss of hair. Falling of hair is natural and is common to everyone. Hair tend to fall after gaining full length and new ones grow. But excessive hair-loss is a real problem.It is natural for hair to stop growing after a certain period. Depending on the conditions of an individual, the lower part of, the hair gland gets withers or dries up, the old strand of hair is severed from the pore. This process of severance from the pores is known as falling of hair but the fallen hair is replaced by the growth of new hair.Often the hair grows by one centimeter in a month. The falling of up to 100 hairs in a day is considered normal because the head can grow this much of hair again. Often, there is a cycle according to which every strand of hair falls within 3-4 years and new growth takes place. Physicians frequently prescribe iron capsules and vitamin tablets to check the falling of hair but it does not seem to be necessary. Continue reading Read More