About hair loss

Hair loss signes

People have between 100,000 and 150,000 hair strands on their head only. People normally shed hair everyday and during each day a human lose 50-100 hairs. Going beyond this range is a sign of abnormal hair loss. The first signs of hair thinning that people will often notice is when they see unusual amounts of hair on their brushes and clothing, in drains after shower or during hair styling, wich can also reveal a wider parting or a thinning crown. Baldness is the partial or complete lack of hair growth, and the causes, symptoms and even part of treatment differ for men and women.

Genetic Hair Loss

Androgenetic alopecia or hereditary pattern baldness is a form of hair loss typically experienced by men and is caused by hereditary factors under the influence of male hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and aging. Women may also experience this type of hair loss, but it occurs rather rarely.
Localized Hair Loss

Some dermatologic conditions can cause localized hair loss. The resulted hair loss pattern is usually quite different from the diffuse one of genetic hair loss and the diagnosis can be put by an experienced dermatologist, sometime after some tests, such as a scalp biopsy.
Medical Conditions

Systemic medical issues often cause a diffuse form of hair loss pattern that can be mistaken with genetic balding (especially at women), it is very important that undiagnosed alopecia be correctly evaluated by a dermatologist or a physician specializing in hair loss.
Exterior causes

Medication or chemicals have the potential to interrupt the proper cycle of hair forming. Nutritional factors affect the hair directly including crash diets, zinc and iron deficiency, malabsorbtion, pancreatic disease, hypervitaminosis A, vitamin D deficiency, fatty acid and protein deficienty, severe caloric restriction.

Male/female pattern hair loss
Alopecia Areata
Traction Alopecia
Lichen Plano-pilaris
Trichotillomania
Pseudopalade
Face-lift & Brow-lift Procedures
Tinea Capitis
Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE)

The diagnosis of female/male pattern hair loss do not usually require testing when there is a history of gradually thinning in the front and/or crown, a family history of hair loss, relative preservation of the frontal hairline and the miniaturization of the hairs in the thinning areas. Other methods: