About Hair Loss

Hair plays a very impor­tant role in any individual’s appear­ance. One only needs to see a per­son with dif­fer­ent hair­styles to under­stand the role hair plays in decid­ing the over­all appear­ance of a per­son. Since a lot of your con­fi­dence comes from the way you look, a reced­ing hair­line or a bald­ing head can suck con­fi­dence out of you and can thereby wreak havoc in your social and per­sonal life.

There is always a rea­son behind hair loss and it is very impor­tant to detect the cause before going for any kind of hair treat­ment. While, gen­er­ally, hair loss is caused due to genetic fac­tors, it can also be caused from stress, pol­lu­tion and an unhealthy lifestyle.

Since hair is so vital in main­tain­ing one’s lev­els of con­fi­dence, peo­ple expe­ri­enc­ing hair loss are always on the look­out for dif­fer­ent types of treat­ment to get their pre­cious hair back. Hair replace­ment ser­vice (or hair trans­plan­ta­tion) is one treat­ment that has always been very pop­u­lar with peo­ple with hair loss problems.

About Hair Replace­ment Service

In hair replace­ment treat­ments hair fol­li­cles from the area of your head that is genet­i­cally resis­tant to going bald (called the donor area), gen­er­ally the back of your head, are used for hair trans­plan­ta­tion. There­fore, it is imper­a­tive that you have some good qual­ity hair on your head if you wish to go for the hair replace­ment ser­vice. This is usu­ally not a prob­lem as male pat­tern bald­ness will cause hair loss on the top and front of the scalp predominantly.

The Hair Replace­ment Treatment

The mod­ern hair replace­ment surgery is done using local anes­the­sia and so the patient hardly feels any pain. The whole sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure may involve more than one ses­sion, the exact num­ber of ses­sions depend­ing on the extent of hair loss and the patient’s require­ments. There are gen­er­ally no side effects after the treat­ment and even if there are any, they are not very seri­ous and sub­side in a cou­ple of days. There may be some red­ness such as from a pin prick at the dona­tion sites.

Before going for the treat­ment, one must care­fully research about the clin­ics offer­ing hair replace­ment treat­ment that you are inter­ested in. You should get the treat­ment done only from a good clinic (and by an expe­ri­enced sur­geon) even if it is cost­lier than other clin­ics, because the cheaper clin­ics will prob­a­bly use old meth­ods of replace­ment that might prove dis­as­trous and may leave you regret­ting your deci­sion for the rest of your life.

The first visit to the clinic is very impor­tant because in the first visit, the doc­tor gets to under­stand your par­tic­u­lar hair loss prob­lem in detail, which in turn helps him or her to decide the course of your treat­ment. The doc­tor may advise you to take antibi­otics before the treat­ment and might also sug­gest some other pre-treatment pre­cau­tions. In addi­tion, you must clear all your doubts regard­ing the treat­ment in the very first visit and should also ask the doc­tor in detail about the exact pro­ce­dure of the surgery.

Recov­ery From Hair Replace­ment Surgery

If done with mod­ern equip­ment by an expe­ri­enced pro­fes­sional, no ban­dage is gen­er­ally required after the replace­ment surgery and one can even go back to one’s rou­tine the same day. The trans­planted hair grows slowly and one must not expect imme­di­ate dras­tic results after the surgery. In fact, the full results of the hair replace­ment ser­vice might even take a year to show. There­fore, the patient should actu­ally be patient in order to see the proper results.

The treat­ment can give you an approx­i­ma­tion of your prior hair den­sity and gen­er­ally it does not show even on a close exam­i­na­tion of the hair, some­thing that has made this treat­ment very pop­u­lar. Another advan­tage of this ser­vice is that the trans­planted hair requires no spe­cial main­te­nance or care. Though hair replace­ment surgery is not very cheap, it is worth the req­ui­site invest­ment con­sid­er­ing the fact that it can bring about a huge pos­i­tive change in your life.

Bald­ness and thin­ning hair is a very com­mon ail­ment, by the age of 35 over two thirds of Amer­i­can men will suf­fer from some degree of hair loss. By the age of 50 approx­i­mately 85% of men will be deal­ing with some type of bald­ness or hair loss. Bald­ness in women is not as com­mon as men, but approx­i­mately two thirds of women suf­fer also. Most women suf­fer from pat­tern bald­ness and more com­monly hair loss and thin­ning. Bald­ness and hair loss can be dev­as­tat­ing and effect a per­sons self esteem and con­fi­dence greatly. Here are ten facts about bald­ness, some of the causes and treatments.

1.) Bald­ness is not caused by wear­ing ball caps, hats, hel­mets or any sim­i­lar apparel.
2.) There is no link between hair loss and a man’s fer­til­ity or viril­ity.
3.) If you are bald­ing shav­ing your hair off will not help grow it back thicker.
4.) It is true that some men can start bald­ing as early as their late teens.
5.) Estro­gen is what usu­ally helps women from expe­ri­enc­ing com­plete bald­ness like men, although women do suf­fer greatly from hair thin­ning and loss.
6.) Bald­ing tends to spread quickly, so you must seek pro­fes­sional help early if you want to do any­thing about it.
7.) There are many causes for bald­ness and hair loss includ­ing genet­ics, envi­ron­men­tal expo­sures, menopause, stress, hor­monal changes, smok­ing, cer­tain med­ica­tions and iron defi­ciency.
8.) True bald­ness effects only men, women can suf­fer from allover thin­ning and loss but their hair­line does not recede dra­mat­i­cally like a mans.
9.) Everyone’s hair is dif­fer­ent so hair loss and treat­ments will be dif­fer­ent from per­son to per­son.
10.) A bal­anced diet and healthy lifestyle can help save your hair.

There are treat­ments and options out there for bald­ness and hair loss, they vary for men and women. If a woman suf­fers from Alope­cia, a rare and tem­po­rary ill­ness where the immune sys­tem attacks the hair fol­li­cles it is usu­ally hard to get a med­ica­tion for it. Unfor­tu­nately many doc­tors do not like to pre­scribe it, and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies have not spent much time address­ing this issue. When Women suf­fer from hair loss the main causes are vit­a­min or hor­mone issues with for­tu­nately can be treated under the care of your physi­cian. Some treat­ments may include Nizo­ral, Prope­cia or Estro­gen, your best treat­ment options will have to be cho­sen by you and your doctor.

In men there are a cou­ple of very pop­u­lar FDA approved med­ica­tions used to help treat hered­i­tary bald­ness. Rogaine and Prope­cia are widely known and used, they work quite well in pre­vent­ing hair loss and even some hair re-growth. In some cases a man and even a woman might be a good can­di­date for hair replace­ment. These pro­ce­dures some call hair plugs are known as micro-grafting, slit graft­ing, punch graft­ing and scalp reduc­tion. Since there can be a con­sid­er­able cost and some side effects with these treat­ments it is impor­tant to weigh all your options. Bald­ness and hair loss is some­thing you do not just have to live with, there are treat­ments that should help you. Take the first and most impor­tant step and con­tact your doc­tor so you can get help for your prob­lem to feel and look like your­self again.

To eval­u­ate the clin­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics and psy­choso­cial dynam­ics of chil­dren with alope­cia, Ahn and Ro had reported alope­cia in chil­dren from Jan­u­ary, 1991 to March, 1995 in the First Tri­con­ti­nen­tal Meet­ing of Hair Research Soci­eties in Brussels.

This study was per­formed from April, 1995 to Decem­ber, 2000. Among 854 new alope­cia OPD patients 161(19.0%) were chil­dren under 15 year old with alope­cia (A. areata: 118, A. totalis: 32, A. uni­ver­salis: 10 and tri­chotil­lo­ma­nia: 2) Results were as follows:

1) The aver­age age of alope­cia in chil­dren was 7.8 years, and 55.9% were pri­mary school stu­dents.
2) The most com­mon type of alope­cia in chil­dren was alope­cia areata (73.3%).
3) The pre­vi­ous episodes of alope­cia were observed in 12.4%, and fam­ily his­tory was observed in 6.8%.
4) Atopic der­mati­tis was the most com­mon asso­ci­ated dis­ease (23.0%).
5) The eldest sib­ling or the chil­dren with stress­ful con­di­tion due to school task and extracuric­u­lar works had high mor­bid­ity (45.3%, 29.1%, respec­tively).
6) On the neu­ropsy­chi­atric con­sul­ta­tion, psy­chi­atri­cally prob­lem­atic cases were observed in 51.7%, and neu­rotic chil­dren and adjust­ment dis­or­ders were the most com­mon prob­lems among them.

These results sug­gest that alope­cia in chil­dren was pre­dom­i­nantly devel­oped in pri­mary school stu­dents, the eldest sib­ling, chil­dren with atopic der­mati­tis or defi­cient parent-child relationship.

Psy­cho­logic stress is an impor­tant fac­tor in the devel­op­ment of the hair loss dis­ease or may con­tribute as an aggra­vat­ing factor.

If you’re start­ing to get wor­ried because you think you’re los­ing your hair or just won­der­ing if the amount you’re los­ing is nat­ural, take a small hand­ful of hair in your hand and tug it as hard as you can. If you have more than six strands of hair in your hand then you are los­ing hair. A nat­ural loss would be less than six strands of hair a day. The “how to tell if you are los­ing your hair” test is the best way to make the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion between nor­mal shed­ding and per­me­ate hair loss.

Hair loss is a big con­cern for many men, women and chil­dren. There are many causes. You may know that you have rapid hair loss already or even a lit­tle loss and won­der what is caus­ing it. Maybe you already have a patch of hair loss. You may not be sure so here’s a good way to tell if it’s abnor­mal or not.

What do you do about it

First of all try to deter­mine if it’s related to any cur­rent med­ical diag­no­sis you have right now. Then take a look at any med­ica­tions you may be tak­ing in case it’s tem­po­rary and related to med­ica­tions, med­i­cines or drugs.

If you’re a man then male pat­tern bald­ness could be a pos­si­bil­ity espe­cially if you notice a reced­ing hair line. Symp­toms could be related to preg­nancy if you’re preg­nant. It could be a thy­roid issue. If you are los­ing in big chunks it could be alope­cia areata. There are many causes for hair loss.

In any case you’ll want to learn how to stop or pre­vent it. There are many ways to learn through blogs, forums and dis­cus­sion groups. How­ever one must be care­ful there because there is a lot of mis­in­for­ma­tion and guess­ing going on. It’s always bet­ter to get med­ical advice from experts in the field, espe­cially if pro­gres­sion is a mat­ter of concern.

With the busy agen­das we push our­selves to accom­plish daily, we are bound to be stressed out and exhausted. We for­get to slow down and take care of our­selves, which results in other stress related con­di­tions to occur. When you get up in the morn­ing and are get­ting ready to work, if you were to run your hand through your hair, it will come away with mul­ti­ple strands, more than the usual. And again when you wash your hair, more hair loses. Such is the human body, it acts and reacts to every­thing we do and eat. There­fore, it is essen­tial to take care of our body and try keep­ing calm and relaxed to avoid hair loss con­di­tions. Some of the other causes could be hor­monal imbal­ance, thy­roid lev­els are not cor­rect, indi­ges­tion, tak­ing of cer­tain med­ica­tion or addicted to drugs. If you are under treat­ment for some other ail­ment and have been tak­ing med­ica­tion con­tin­u­ously and notice hair loss, you will also see it stops when you stop tak­ing the pills. So, this is just a tem­po­rary con­di­tion and noth­ing major. Peo­ple have today real­ized the value of using nat­ural prod­ucts since they have lit­tle or no side effects and are effective.

1.  Alter your diet

A sure shot way by which one can pro­mote hair growth is to watch their diet. Every time you eat a chip or take a drag of a cig­a­rette, you need to remem­ber you are harm­ing your body. There­fore, by keep­ing track of what you put into your mouth, you can help cleanse your sys­tem and help hair grow bet­ter. If you are over­weight, you will need to con­trol the amount of food and the kind of food you con­sume, and this will grad­u­ally reflect on your hair’s health.

2. Avoid using chem­i­cals and chang­ing brands

If there is any cer­tain sham­poo or serum that you have been using on your hair based on your hair expert’s opin­ion, do not change the brand sud­denly.  You might see mul­ti­ple adver­tise­ments and pro­mo­tions for sham­poos that pro­mote hair growth, or give you long lus­cious hair, don’t get tempted by these and fall for them. You might be sub­ject­ing your hair to stronger doses of chem­i­cals. Instead opt for aloe vera or pro­tein rich sham­poo with a good con­di­tioner to keep the nutri­ents intact and help the scalp get more blood.

There are sham­poos which are made using wal­nut bark or kelp oil that will help keep your scalp clean and stop the prob­lems of thin­ning or bald­ing. When you are done wash­ing your hair, it will not be dry, but will have cer­tain essen­tial oils remain­ing in the strands to help them grow better.

3. Hor­monal balances

Upon con­sult­ing your endocri­nol­o­gist, you will be pre­scribed med­ica­tion that will bring your hor­mones into con­trol, and curb pro­duc­tion of DHT. This will auto­mat­i­cally aid in hair growth.

While the loss of hair from the scalp- hair thin­ning, male pat­tern bald­ness, a reced­ing hair­line, and alope­cia– is a very com­mon and frus­trat­ing prob­lem among both men and women, some indi­vid­u­als suf­fer from loss of over­all body hair. There are five main causes of body hair loss– skin con­di­tions, hor­monal dis­or­ders, med­ica­tions and other med­ical ill­nesses, stress, and diet. Cer­tain skin con­di­tions, such as eczema, pso­ri­a­sis, der­mati­tis, skin injury, and burns, cause dam­age to the hair fol­li­cles and sur­round­ing cells mak­ing hair growth impos­si­ble. In some of these instances, espe­cially in the case of severe skin burns, the cell dam­age can be irre­versible so the body hair loss is also permanent.

Aside from hor­monal dis­or­ders and skin injury, cer­tain other med­ical ill­ness can lead to loss of body hair. Can­cer, dis­eases that affect the immune sys­tem, and con­di­tions that dis­rupt organ func­tion can all cause tem­po­rary lapses in the nat­ural hair growth process. In most cases the body hair loss is restricted to one or two areas most affected by the dis­ease or ill­ness, but in some cases the hair loss can be seen all over the body.

Because there are so many dif­fer­ent rea­sons that you may be los­ing the hair all over your body it is imper­a­tive that you see a doc­tor at the first sign of this hair loss. If the hair loss is a result of an under­ly­ing med­ical con­di­tion it is impor­tant that you receive treat­ment for the dis­ease not just the hair loss.

With hair loss becom­ing a com­mon cause of con­cern amongst mil­lions of peo­ple across the world, every year a large num­ber of med­ica­tions, herbs, spices, nutri­tional sup­ple­ments, oils, sham­poos etc comes up in the mar­ket each claim­ing itself to be the panacea for hair loss. Each year, men suf­fer­ing from hair loss spend bil­lions of dol­lars in an attempt to treat their hair loss. Unfor­tu­nately, a large per­cent­age of all prod­ucts being mar­keted in the less than eth­i­cal hair loss treat­ment indus­try are com­pletely inef­fec­tive for the major­ity of those who use them.

If you are going bald you should seri­ously con­sider hair loss med­ica­tion treat­ments to halt or even reverse your hair loss. While there is no cure for hair loss drugs can often stop or even reverse alope­cia aer­ate in most peo­ple. Med­ica­tion for treat­ing hair loss slows thin­ning of the hair and increases cov­er­age of the scalp by grow­ing new hair and enlarg­ing exist­ing hairs.

Types of Med­ica­tions for Hair loss Treatment

Today there are two FDA approved med­ica­tions for hair growth — minox­i­dil which is sold over the counter as Rogaine, for both men and women, and Finas­teride, a pre­scrip­tion pill sold as Prope­cia, for men only. Two other drugs have been recently approved for hair growth and include a high-estrogen oral con­tra­cep­tive and Aldac­tone (How­ever, these two med­ica­tions are only for women due to their fem­i­niz­ing side effects.

Both these med­ica­tions slow thin­ning of the hair and increase cov­er­age of the scalp by grow­ing new hair and enlarg­ing exist­ing hairs. How­ever, the effec­tive­ness of finas­teride or minox­i­dil depends on your age and the loca­tion of hair loss. These med­ica­tions do not work for every­one, and you should not expect to re-grow a full head of hair.

Nor­mal hair loss can be char­ac­ter­ized as see­ing hair on your comb after using it. Every one of us loses hair on a daily bases, it is a part of the many renewal processes that are built into our bod­ies sys­tem.  But if you find your­self con­stantly hav­ing to clean your home because of hairs on the floor, it is time to become aware of proper hair care to pre­vent hair loss. The prob­lem could already exist, due to hered­ity rea­sons or hor­mones but it is pos­si­ble to reduce hair loss by sim­ply apply­ing these ben­e­fi­cial tips to your life.

Tips against Hair Loss

Pre­ven­ta­tive hair loss tips that you can apply to your every­day life.

• Comb hair every day gen­tly with­out pulling and break­ing the hair unnecessarily
• Avoid using excess hair gel and hairspray
• Brush hair when dry not when wet
• Con­sume a Healthy Diet
• Reg­u­lar exercise
• Do not ignore wash­ing of your hair every alter­nate day
• Know your hair type and then apply nec­es­sary prod­ucts on your hair
• Always avoid strong chem­i­cal hair products
• Mas­sag­ing the Scalp
• Proper Stress Management

Latisse is the first FDA approved eye­lash pre­scrip­tion that gives you longer, fuller, and darker lashes.

What is the mech­a­nism that pro­duce the affect

The pre­cise mech­a­nism of action is unknown, although it is found that the­ses mech­a­nism are thought to be involved in the devel­op­ment of regrowth — Bimato­prost which is the active phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal ingre­di­ent in the for­mu­la­tion of Latisse and is a struc­tural prostaglandin ana­log, a lipid com­pound derived from fatty acids designed to bind to Prostaglandin recep­tors (PG) recep­tors. PG recep­tors are present in hair, espe­cially in the outer root sheath and der­mal papilla. PG recep­tors are thought to be involved in the devel­op­ment and regrowth of the hair fol­li­cle by increas­ing the per­cent of hairs in, and the dura­tion of, the growth phase.

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