Cause of hair loss

Cause of hair loss varies in most people and it is different from male pattern baldness. Presence of illness is also one of the causes and it is often a particular symptom of many different diseases. Most of the hair resumes back when the disease has disappeared or is properly treated although the hair loss is often the first and only presentation of many diseases and usually.

Some of the hair loss associated diseases are Addison’s disease, Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism, Iron Dieciencym Scarring, Seborrheic Dermatitis, Secondary Syphilis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Vitiligo.

The chronic and excessive pulling on the air will cause a type of hair loss named Traction alopecia. It usually found in people who braid or knot their hair tightly.

Trichotillomania

Intentional pulling out of healthy hair leads to Trichotillomania. It is a typically a temporary, personal habit that has no permanent consequence. This symptom is mostly observed in children who are suffering with a serious emotional or psychiatric problem. The pulling out of individual strands of hair from the scalp also involves eyebrows, eyelashes and public. The wrapping of hair around a finger is the same way or pattern is the common way in manipulation of hair.

Alopecia areata

Forming patches of baldness is the symptom in Alopecia areata. This is experienced by 1 in 100 people in the US and is usually in small circular areas on the scalp and it quite common. Experts consider it to be autoimmune, meaning the body’s cells (in this instance the pailla/bulb area) and antibodies attack themselves.

This condition usually occurs in young adults and can occur in men and women equally though it is more common in men in Italy and Spain . Some 80% of people with this type of alopecia have hair re-growth eventually, although many people have recurrent battles with this disease.

Severity of alopecia areata

The severity of alopecia areata (alopecia totalis) includes a total loss of scalp hair, often resulting in a total loss of bodily hair (alopecia universalis). This is an unusual problem and approximately 33% of those affected bring back all their hair within a year, although like above, there can be persistent battles with this disease.

Anagen effluvium

Anagen effluvium (chemical damage) is a form of hair loss similar to telogen effluvium alopecia, which at first causes patchy losses of hair usually advancing to a total loss of in. The killing of the anagen hair and hair follicle by the chemicals is the reason for occurring this, instead of the hair follicle simply shutting down. Cancer treatments such as chemotherapy are medications that are an example of this type of hair loss.

Chemotherapy

To destruct cancer cells chemotherapy, a drug is injected into the body, it’s also a poison that can kill the good and bad cells. One of the side effects is killing the hair follicle. The hair usually grows back after 6 months however, when the chemotherapy stops.

The others that cause hair loss include other medications that are used to treat illness and diseases. This is usually in a less number of patients, although the reasons for it stay unknown. Before taking the medications you should always ask your doctor what the possible side effects are and equally, check with your doctor before deciding to stop a medication as the consequences of not taking a certain medication may be greater to hair loss in itself.