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Archive for February, 2012

Female Pattern Baldness Treatments

February 21st, 2012

Clin­i­cal fea­tures of pat­tern bald­ness in women usu­ally occur dur­ing early teens and late mid­dle age. This is shown by the grad­ual thin­ning of hair over the frontal area. Usu­ally, pat­tern bald­ness in women is not accom­pa­nied by increased shed­ding of hair, but unlike tel­o­gen efflu­vium, hair loss may be seen from the start. The scalp becomes more and more vis­i­ble as the dis­ease progresses.

 
Most of the time, the cen­tral part of the head widens due to dif­fused reduc­tion of the hair’s den­sity, which involves the frontal scalp and crown. Some women may expe­ri­ence hair loss on some small areas of the frontal scalp while oth­ers may expe­ri­ence the effect on the entire scalp includ­ing the areas of pari­etal and occip­i­tal. Dur­ing hair loss, women usu­ally retain a rim of hair along the frontal hairline.
 
Lab­o­ra­tory Evaluation
Most women with pat­tern bald­ness have nor­mal men­stru­a­tion, nor­mal fer­til­ity, and nor­mal endocrine func­tion, includ­ing cor­rect lev­els of cir­cu­lat­ing andro­gens. There­fore, they would only need exten­sive hor­monal test­ing when symp­toms and signs of andro­gen excess become really vis­i­ble. Lab­o­ra­tory mea­sure­ment of serum total or free testos­terone, dehy­droepiandros­terone sul­fate and pro­lactin are appro­pri­ate when hir­sutism, severe unre­spon­sive cys­tic acne, vir­il­iza­tion, or galac­t­or­rhoea are present. Mea­sure­ment of serum thy­rotropin, serum iron and fer­ritin, and com­plete blood count may elim­i­nate com­mon causes of hair loss.
 
Dif­fer­en­tial Diag­no­sis of Andro­ge­netic Alopecia
Andro­ge­netic alope­cia in women (exter­nal link) can be con­fused with the for­mer con­di­tion. This is in spite of the fact that fea­tures of chronic tel­o­gen efflu­vium are dis­tinct. Any­way, hor­i­zon­tal sec­tions of a scalp biopsy help to dis­tin­guish the two con­di­tions once the ratio of ter­mi­nal hairs shrinks.
 
Mor­phol­ogy
As time goes by, the hairs in pat­tern bald­ness become pro­gres­sively minia­tur­ized. These hairs include the papil­lae and matri­ces, as well as the hair shafts. How­ever, the degree of hair loss in women is not as extreme as it is with some men. Women with pat­tern hair loss have a mosaic of variable-diameter hairs in the affected region of the top of the scalp. Increased spac­ing between hairs makes the cen­tral part appear wider over the frontal scalp com­pared to the occip­i­tal scalp.
 
In some cases, hair vol­ume may still appear nor­mal but the hair would stop grow­ing to its pre­vi­ous length and nor­mally results to thin dis­tal ends. Female pat­tern hair loss is seen on women by visual decrease in hair den­sity while in men, it is by bald­ness on the affected areas.
 
Treat­ment of Andro­ge­netic Alopecia
Hair loss is a result of abnor­mal hair cycle. Because of this, it is the­o­ret­i­cally reversible. How­ever, the cur­rent treat­ment options have lim­its in their per­for­mance and in some cases, only small improve­ments in hair den­sity can be seen. Advanced pat­tern bald­ness may already be dif­fi­cult to treat because irrepara­ble dam­ages may have already taken place on the fol­lic­u­lar stem cell when inflam­ma­tion sur­rounded the bulge area of the fol­li­cle. Some sys­tem­atic treat­ment plans for this case include:
 
 
The cur­rent treat­ment for pat­tern bald­ness is Minox­i­dil. The exact mech­a­nism by which Minox­i­dil works is not known but the treat­ment appears to affect the hair fol­li­cle in three ways: it increases the span of time fol­li­cles spend in ana­gen, it rouses fol­li­cles that are in cata­gen and it enlarges the actual follicles.
 
Hair Loss In Women
 
 
In effect, vel­lus hairs enlarge and are con­verted to ter­mi­nal hairs, and shed­ding is reduced.Exoge­nous estro­gen can be used to treat pat­tern bald­ness, but this reg­i­men is no longer much in use because of Minoxidil’s efficacy.

Finas­teride has been effec­tive on men with pat­tern bald­ness but def­i­nitely it was risky on women. This reg­i­men is not advis­able for women who are still in their child­bear­ing age because of the pres­ence of 5a-reductase inhibitors that may cause exter­nal gen­i­talia abnor­mal­i­ties in male fetuses.

Hair­styling, teas­ing, col­or­ing, per­ma­nents, and the use of hair spray are means of cop­ing with the cos­metic effects of pat­tern bald­ness. How­ever, when the hair loss is grave, the affected per­son may opt to use wigs.

Hair trans­plan­ta­tion is another option since it has already been accepted in treat­ing pat­tern bald­ness on men. Now, it is also being used to treat female hair loss although only a very few women go for this type of treat­ment because of the cost and the pos­si­ble trauma that may go with it.

For those women who have encoun­tered inef­fec­tive and unsuc­cess­ful treat­ments for hair loss, surgery may be another option and thus, the most suited method for them.

Hair Loss | DHT The Hair Killer

February 13th, 2012

Did you know that 95% of pat­tern bald­ness for both men and women is caused by hor­mone known as dihy­drotestos­terone? This nasty hor­mone sneaks up on your hair fol­li­cles and silently kills them, and the end result is make and female pat­tern baldness. 

Dihy­drotestos­terone is male hor­mones com­bi­na­tion com­monly found in both men and women of all ages. When an excess of this hor­mone is pro­duced, it can lead directly to the loss of your hair, com­monly known as genetic hair loss or male and female pat­tern baldness. 

This DHT hor­mone sur­round your hair fol­li­cles with ha wax like sub­stance; this will basi­cally starve the fol­li­cles of much needed vit­a­mins and nutri­ents that help them to grow healthy and strong hair. The DHT, causes your hair fol­li­cles to pro­duced thin­ner and thin­ner and more brit­tle hairs until the sim­ply fall out, and new hair are unable to replace them due to dam­ages DHT has done to the fol­li­cle. Leav­ing you with those tell tale unsightly bald patches or more com­mon in women thin­ning across your scalp.

But there is help in the best hair loss solu­tion, these clin­i­cally proven for­mu­la­tions can and do work to stop the loss of your hair and help-grow your own nat­ural and sexy healthy hair. These hair loss reme­dies use the only FDA approved ingre­di­ent on the mar­ket that can be used by both men and women and has been proven to help stop fur­ther hair loss and re-grow hair.

The top­i­cal hair loss solu­tion goes to work ensur­ing your fol­li­cles receive a rich sup­ply of hair friendly clods filled with the vit­a­mins and nutri­ents needed to help those hairs grow to be strong healthy and shiny.

Com­bine this with the oral min­eral and vit­a­min sup­ple­ments,. and you have a win­ning com­bi­na­tion for hair loss re-growth.

The vit­a­min and min­eral sup­ple­ments con­tain all nat­ural ingre­di­ents and herbs with pow­er­ful DHT block­ing abil­i­ties, thus ensur­ing your hair has the very vest chances to defeat the silent killer dihy­drotestos­terone.

Hair loss due to DHT

 

 

 

 

 

Why good Nutrition is essential for Hair Growth

February 7th, 2012

Hair Growth and Nutri­tion Con­trary to pop­u­lar opin­ion the major­ity of the hair is already dead. Noth­ing we apply to our hair will make out hair any health­ier. Nour­ish­ment and per­ma­nent changes to our health must be made from within. This is impor­tant so that the roots, the only live part of the hair can be nourished.

Most peo­ple are aware that many vit­a­mins, espe­cially B vit­a­mins and vit­a­min E have been long rec­om­mended as a cure or method or main­tain­ing healthy skin, hair and nails. There is more than a lit­tle truth to this rec­om­men­da­tion. The human body relies on nutri­ents and vit­a­mins for the pro­duc­tion of many chem­i­cals and amino avoids within the body relies on nutri­ents and vit­a­mins for the pro­duc­tion of many chem­i­cals and amino acids within the body to reg­u­late and per­form nor­mal bod­ily func­tions. One of these mil­lions of func­tions is the reg­u­la­tion of hair growth. Stud­ies have shown that indi­vid­u­als who main­tain a poorly bal­anced diet or tend to go on crash diets will tend to have less healthy skin, hair and nails. Indi­vid­u­als suf­fer­ing from anorexia very com­monly exhibit loss of hair and other skin and nail issues.

There are a num­ber of vit­a­min and nutri­ents the body absolutely must have in order to stim­u­late the growth of healthy hair. Remem­ber, we have already estab­lished that healthy hair must be frown from within. To that end, the body must have ade­quate sup­plies essen­tial and non-essential nutri­ents. While non-essential may sound as thought is not as nec­es­sary, this term sim­ply means that the body is capa­ble of pro­duc­ing it on its own. indi­vid­u­als who have med­ical con­di­tion that pre­vent the body from pro­duc­ing or stor­ing non-essential nutri­ents will need to sup­ple­ment their diets in order to get amounts.

At a min­i­mum, the body needs the fol­low­ing vit­a­mins and nutri­ents to act as a cat­a­lyst for other pro­duc­tions within the body includ­ing the nec­es­sary  growth and main­tained of healthy hair:  

Vit­a­min A

Vit­a­min B

Vit­a­min E

Cop­per

Iodine

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