Expert Talk  Free Expert Tips and Advices

Home » Hair Loss » What Causes Female Balding?

What Causes Female Balding?

If your mother suffered from excessive hair loss than it may well be that you will too. However, as the condition is rather rarer in women than men it is always best to check with your doctor that there is not any other more serious cause such as diab
etes or hypothyroidism.

Many women experience a noticeable diffuse hair loss some months after having a child or after coming off birth control pills. This is because the hormones involved will have caused more hairs than normal to go into the growth stage of the hair cycle at the same time while the pills were being taken or during pregnancy. This means that those same hairs reach the shedding stage of the cycle at the same time and because hormone levels have fallen there aren?t the same number to replace them all at once. This is a matter that normally rights itself after a few months and so isn?t really a problem. A similar diffuse loss can be the result of stress. In that case it is obviously better to treat the stress than the scalp, which will gradually right itself. Such stress causes the hair to go into the resting stage, where it remains in the follicle without growing, until it is pushed out by a new hair developing underneath it.

Finally there is
hair thinning as part of the normal ageing process. As many as 13 % of women would say that they had some hair thinning before the menopause and by the age of 75 this percentage increase to about 75 %. It is due to the production of a chemical usually known as DHT, an excess of which in the body causes the hair follicles to produce thinner and thinner hair and finally to stop producing any at all.

Another important cause of hair loss in women is an autoimmune condition called alopecia areata in which the white blood cells attack hair follicles so that hair production stops. After a while there may be regrowth, though it can be patchy and does not occur in every case. Loss is usually on the top and at the sides of the head.
Hair loss in women is not caused by washing your hair too often or by brushing It too much. Dyes and perms will not cause permanent loss. Standing on your head will not make your hair grow more thickly, nor will shaving your head. Nor is thinning hair a sign that you are any less than you were before Hang on to that thought. But also get used to the idea that there is no one miracle cure whatever the advertisers may say.
Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com

Please visit our web site for more information about the causes of alopecia. To download a free copy of John Tulleys' brand new e-book, "Hair Loss Treatments: How to Stop Hair Loss and Regrow Your Hair!", click here: www.alpha7haircare.com

Permalink: http://expert-talk.com/tips/636/what-causes-female-balding-61636.htm

Comments

SEND A COMMENT

PLEASE READ: All comments must be approved before appearing in the thread; time and space constraints prevent all comments from appearing. We will only approve comments that are directly related to the article, use appropriate language and are not attacking the comments of others.

Message (please, no HTML tags. Web addresses will be hyperlinked):

Related Tips and Advices

Related Tags

DIGG This story   Save To Google   Save To Windows Live   Save To Del.icio.us   diigo it   Save To blinklist
Save To Furl   Save To Yahoo! My Web 2.0   Save To Blogmarks   Save To Shadows   Save To stumbleupon   Save To Reddit