What is Alopecia (Hair Loss)?

Introduction

Hair that is not regrown after falling is known as hair loss. In a day, according to Dermatologists, gradually we can lose ten to a hundred hairs strand. Hair loosening can be affecting your scalp or entire body, resulting from the thinning of your hair. And the word baldness refers to the stop of hair growth.

Causes of Hair Loss

There are many causes of hair loosening and which are following.

Heredity, which is the common cause of loosening hair.
Hormonal Changes are related to the immune system are also the common cause of hair loss.
In the head, due to radiation therapy, hair does not come back.
During a period of stress, a person faces hair loss.
Hairstyle also causes hair loss.
Aging is also a common cause of hair loss.
When you color your hair, resulting in hair loss.
Scalp Infection is one of them.
Scarring Alopecia, a condition that occurs when inflammation damage the follicles of hair.
The infection transmitted sexually causes hair loss.
Not sufficient presence of nutrients causes hair loss.
There are side effects of drugs that we use for the treatment of many diseases that causes hair loss.

Symptoms of Hair Loss

Sudden Hair Loss

By stress, a sudden loosening of hair occurs. During washing or combing/tugging, the hair comes out. And which one is the temporary type of hair loosening.

Slowly Thinning of Hair Top

This type of hair loss is affected during aging, which affects both males and females.

Circular Bald Spots

In scalps, people loosen the hair in circular spots.

Hair Loss at Full Body

In cancer treatment or radiotherapy, the people lose hair temporarily, and the hair returns.

Scaling Patches Spreading on the Scalp

These occur due to earthworms which accompany broken hair or redness or swelling etc.

Poison

Being slowly poisoned causes hair loss. Poisons causing hair loosening are

Thallium, Mercury, Lithium, etc.

Diagnosis of Hair Loss

Persistent Hair loosening

Persistently hair loss results in health issues. A Dermatologist will come to know the cause of hair loosening based on health issues and your physical examination. Simple changes in diet can help, sometimes. If your doctor guess has suspension an autoimmune or any skin disease, he will take skins biopsy present scalps.

Medication

With the help of medicine, we firstly solved our hair issue. The medication contains creams, gels that you apply on the scalp, and the most used ingredients contain minoxidil. The doctor prescribes corticosteroids (prednisone) too, which involve suppressing your immune system and reducing inflammation. You should use this medicine carefully, So, it also has side effects.

Medical Procedures

Sometimes medicines not stop hair loss. Then use the surgical procedure method for the treatment of baldness. These are

Hair Transplant Surgery
Scalp Reduction
Natural Remedies

Hair Transplant Surgery

It is a technique of removing hair follicles from one of the body parts known as the donor site to the balding section of the body, called the recipient site. This technique applied to the male baldness pattern. It is best for inherited baldness. Because of its progressive type of hair loss, there will need of multiple surgeries.

Scalp Reduction

Here surgeons remove hair lacking part of the scalp, then close this area with your scalp pieces that contain hair. And this type is much expensive and also risky.

Natural Remedies

Better care

By adopting a routine of proper hair care for reducing the breakage of hair.
Avoid tight ponytails and like this type of style.
Tend to sleep in a satin pillowcase to avoid night-breaking hair.
Avoid the use of hot tools for styling’s which involve hair breakage.
Wash your hair three times a day.

References

https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/guide/alopecia-areata#:~:text=Alopecia%20Outlook-,What%20Is%20Alopecia%3F,Others%20lose%20a%20lot.
Https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/hair-loss/types/alopecia
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hair-loss/symptoms-causes/syc-20372926