Become bald? ..

The men in our society are horrified by hair loss. They stick to advertising any products that guarantee the retention of the hair on your scalp, hair restoration, or the prevention of further loss. They buy wigs that look like pieces cut from a shaggy rug in your apartment. Countless millions of rubles are spent on what is usually a fruitless attempts.

Although hair loss may happen and also in women, it is mostly a male problem, and is often hereditary. Several men in the family most likely will have similar types of hair, but bald head can "jump" through the generations.

It also happens that the father in the head a lot of hair, and his three sons began quite early thinning hair. The eldest son has become almost completely bald by the age of thirty, middle and youngest about 40 years. Some people like it and they did not find anything uncomfortable, ugly in his bald head. Even there is an opinion that the size of male baldness is in direct proportion to the circulating levels of the male hormone. It is also known that the more "enlightened" cultures baldness is seen as very sexy sign, a sign of masculinity. Did you know the phrase just love bald men: "God made a few perfect heads other he covered with hair.". All three sons have inherited in this case the hair loss is not from his father. Their grandfather and maternal uncle were both bald.

Male baldness usually begins in front of the skull on either side or a circle on top. If it starts to 20 years, it will be pretty much later, and only the humility, a good wig, hair transplant or rainbow perception of reality. Minoxidil, a drug for hypertension, has the additional effect of some typical bald men: slow retreat of the hairline and possibly even stimulates the growth of new ones.

Some women with age the hair becomes less frequent at the front and on the sides, but they are no familial or hereditary baldness.

Men or women, we all lose some hair when getting older. But the sudden loss of hair may reflect hormonal changes, diseases of the skin of the head, lasting fever, exposure to drugs or may occur as a result of radiation therapy.

Hormonal imbalance, the most frequently responsible for hair loss associated with thyroid disorders, when it works, or too active or too weak. If successful, the treatment of overactive gland (radioactive iodine, surgery or drugs) stops hair loss and growth is often renewed. Similarly, when thyroid hormone replacement therapy in patients with low thyroid function balding process is terminated. Hormonal changes and their accompanying hair loss often occur after pregnancy and other diseases of the endocrine glands, especially involving the pituitary gland.

Any serious disease, especially accompanied by fever, can cause temporary hair loss in the whole body and not only on the skull. When the disease is successfully cured, the hair grows back. Autoimmune diseases like lupus erythematosus, often accompanied by hair loss.

There is a disease, probably of autoimmune origin, called Limited baldness (alopecia), in which the lost are small, well-defined areas of the skull hair or beards. In adults, it takes a few months, after which growth resumes. But if such a pattern baldness begins in childhood, hair loss is usually permanent.

Many drugs, especially those used to treat cancer, cause loss of hair, as excessively large amounts of vitamin A, in tablets or in food. Hair loss in radiation therapy in most cases then terminated.

Clearly, if your hair has always been thick and started to drop as soon as you get sick with something, especially with a high fever, the reason is obvious. It is also obvious if baldness coincides with the reception of new powerful drugs. Here are some specific instructions to help you determine why you are losing your tresses.

If you are a teenage boy with a family "tradition" of hair loss and the hair on your head begin to thin out, you have inherited a typical male bald head. In this case, the hair on the other parts of the body not affected. On the contrary, if you have the temperature and symptoms of hormonal imbalance, you have taken a new medication or have undergone radiation therapy, then, in addition to the hair of the scalp, the hair of other areas of the body are involved.

If the hair on the head fall in some places, you may suffer limited baldness. But you can also be a fungus. The most common is trihofitia, ringworm of the head. It is contagious, affects mainly children and spreads like wildfire in schools and homes.

Hair loss often accompanies aging. It is still unknown why it does not happen every senior citizen, and why it is happening at all. Perhaps this is a consequence of hereditary individual cards, which was handed to us by our ancestors, or the result of poor nutrition, or some subtle hormonal changes. Again, in spite of all the claims and advertising, when an elderly person loses hair, without any reason, it is usually irreversible.

Finally, there are cases of hair loss, which have nothing to do with what is happening in your body. Some children have a habit of nerve to pull them. Always first check this option if your child began to lose her hair. Excessive use of shampoo and hairdryer, at home or in the cabin, can damage the hair and make them fall in significant amounts. So, before you worry about his bald head, or hormonal disorders, make sure not to blame if your ways to treat hair.

Symptom: alopecia