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Alopecia or hair loss is a very common thing but it can also be an embarrassing time for patients and it can be very stressful. There are some obvious reasons for hair loss in men such as old age and genetics, but there are some medical conditions that can cause mild and severe hair loss. The following conditions are the leading causes for hair loss in men and women.
Firstly, chemical breakage is probably the leading cause for hair loss in women. It’s usually caused by over processing with hair dye and bleach. It can cause serious damage to your hair but everyone’s threshold is different. It can happen as early as the first time you dye your hair or as late as 20 years after having dyed your hair on a regular basis.
One of the major medical conditions that can cause hair loss is hypothyroidism which is a condition where your thyroid gland, located in your neck, slows down production or stops working altogether. The thyroid gland controls a release of hormones into your blood stream and without them you can experience hair loss, weight gain and usually a low body temperature or feeling the cold a lot.
One of the other common causes of hair loss is the use of certain chemotherapy drugs and this is why many cancer patients lose their hair. It’s commonly thought that one of the symptoms of cancer is hair loss but this isn’t the case – it’s the treatment for cancer, known as chemotherapy, which causes hair loss and this is simply because in order to wipe out cancer, you need a savage range of treatment which can affect other areas of your body, in this case, your hair.
Then of course, there’s the genetic side of things which may or may not be treatable. It depends on the condition; Genodermatosis for example, is a skin condition which can cause hair loss and it is a hereditary disease – there are treatment options available for this condition but not for all.
If you are at all worried about hair loss then you should contact your GP and make an appointment to have a full blood count done. This will usually flag any conditions and infections which could be causing it but it can also be something as simple as a poor diet so make sure that you talk to your GP.
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Posted in Health Issues · November 18th, 2009 · Comments (0)
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