Hair Loss-female Hair Loss

Why Do Women Lose Their Hair?

Although more likely found in men, female hair loss is quite a common problem too, and if hair loss for men can cause self consciousness you can multiply that a 100 times when it come to thinning hair in women. So what is behind it and what can be done about it?:-

Another name for female hair loss is androgenetic alopecia, and it is more common than you may have previously thought with approximate numbers being about 1 in 4 women suffering from thinning hair.So are you actually going bald, well the first place to check would be by getting a better understanding of your hair cycle

The hair grows in cycles and it works out that at ninety percent of the hair is growing and ten percent is in the resting phase at any one time, during the resting phase it is perfectly normal for you to shed hair. You can always do a test to see if you are losing more hair than you should be and that is by getting say twenty strands of hair between thumb and forefinger and then slowly but firmly tug them. If half a dozen or more come out then that is a sign you may be losing your hair.

Why do women lose hair? There are a lot of reasons why women can lose their hair. Some are obvious like general poor health, bad diet or stress – but by far and away the biggest factor is likely to be hormonal.The reason behind this is hair loss is usually caused by a hormone called DHT. DHT is made when there is too much testosterone, now women do have testosterone in their bodies, and it is normally controlled by estrogen, but when estrogen is low, say because of menopause or a women having to go through a hysterectomy, then this can allow the testosterone to become DHT and result in hairloss. This hormonal imbalance can also happen just after pregnancy too.

By: Chris Sladden

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Is there anything that can be done to stop the hair loss? Of course there are the mainstream routes such as drugs from a physician or transplants, however for a majority of people these days that is not the route they want to take as their can be side effects from drugs and transplants can be very expensive. However I do look at alternative ways on my site which is all about how to prevent hair loss at www.howtopreventhairloss.org.