There are many causes of hair loss. Some are due to high fever,
serious infections, major surgery, and in some cases emotional and
physical stress causes hair loss. Other causes of hair loss include
thyroid disease, lack of protein in dirt, low iron, and prescriptive
drugs given for blood thymes, acne arthritis, and heart disease. Hair
loss can also occur in women who take contraceptives; as well as, after
giving birth. Possible causes of hair loss comes from family genes and
hormonal patterns. The developing of bald patches on the beard or on the
scalp also causes hair loss. Men and women who often visit barber shops
and beauty salons can contact ringworms, which also causes hair loss.
In some cases adolescence experience hair loss from an illness or not
eating properly.
Androgenetic Alopecia is the most common cause of hair loss. When
hair follicles stop producing hair growth hair loss occurs. Anyone can
experience hair loss on the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, and body hair.
If a man experiences genetic baldness it it not necessarily caused by
hair loss. It is however caused by the body not being able to produce
new hairs. The signs of male genetic baldness is a receding hairline,
thinning around the crown, and bald spots. Because of hereditary genes,
males who produce testosterones are most likely to experience baldness.
In pregnant females the normal shedding of hair per day is put on hold.
Within 3 months the hair starts shedding rapidly. For most teens hair
loss is temporary. Thyroid disease, teen medications, and skin disease
are a few causes of hair loss in teens.
When hair grows-it grows in cycles and eventually falls out. Even
though hair sheds 50 to 100 hairs a day, scalp hair grows at about 6
inches per year. Hair is made up of protein which is required to help
produce normal hair. Illnesses like thyroid disease, kidney and liver,
cancer and lupus causes hair loss. Medications like Lithium, diet pills
with amphetamines, and chemotherapy drugs are major risks of hair loss
too. Alopecia Areata is a skin disease that causes hair loss on the
scalp and other places on the body. Trichotilloomania, a disorder that
results in pulling on the hair also causes hair loss.
People with eating
disorders like anorexia and bulimia suffer hair loss. Chemically
treated hair and hairstyles worn too tight damages the hair follicles
that causes the hair to thin.
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