The Causes of Hair Loss

Hair loss affects approximately 85% of men and 60% of women at some point in their lives, only in American, there are over 80 million American men and women are suffering from hair loss. Every person will lose more than 40% of hair in a life time, thus about a 100 hairs loss a day is considered normal, and any amount of hair over that might mean excessive hair loss.

There are many factors contribute to hair loss, like stress, diseases, hormonal imbalance, improper hair care, poor diet, hereditary and use of certain medicines such as antidepressants and birth control pills.

1) STRESS - Stress might be caused by excessive work, a job with irregular hours, anxiety and pressure from a hectic lifestyle, family problems or major illness or surgeries. For women it could be mental stress as a result of pregnancy, childbirth or menopause.

2) IMPROPER HAIR CARE - Frequent hair dyeing and perming ,excessive blow-drying your hair, long term use of improper hair-styling products, it may causes you have an oily scalp, sometimes having dandruff problem too.

3) LIVING HABITS - If you are a heavy smoker and/or drinker, always lack of sleep, taking too much high-salt and oily diet.

4) MALNUTRITION - People may lose their hair because their body lack of necessary proteins, vitamins and minerals to make the hair grow. Sometimes the vegetarian persons might experience certain amount of hair loss if they don’t get enough proteins from non-meat resources.

5) USE OF DRUGS - Certain medicines, such as chemotherapy medicines (used for cancer treatment), blood thinner medicines (anticoagulants), gout medicines as well as Vit A (in big amounts).

6) MALE PATTERN BALDNESS - Male Pattern Baldness or scientifically called, Androgenetic Alopecia. Androgenetic hair loss is caused by the effects of male hormones on genetically susceptible hair follicles.

7) HEREDITARY - Related to your parents or family history of hair loss.

Please note that not all hair loss is genetic or permanent. In many cases, hair loss is only a temporary affair and finally will grow back.