Falling hair

Hair loss is abnormal if it falls in large quantities and misses the normal new outgrowth. Each time when we see a large extent of hair loss, we apply a suitable treatment to assist blood circulation and stimulate the hair follicles.

The treatment will be really effective if it acts in two directions:
- Stops hair loss
- Stimulating normal new outgrowth

If hair loss is more than 40 or 60 hairs per day, we term it alopecia, when hair loss may be uneven. This condition can lead to irreversible baldness if the hair follicles and the hair warts die. But if the hair wart doesn't die and the matrix cell's life cycle has ended temporarily, then the condition can be arrested and retrieved. The treatment of temporary hair loss is to stimulate regeneration of the matrix cells and to intensify the keratin deposit and the metabolism of the scalp.

Characteristics of androgenetic alopecia

This is a hormonal condition, with hair loss most noticeable on the crown of the head. The scalp becomes thin, atrophied and shiny. Angrectasis are noticed on the scalp but the outlets of the hair follicles aren't visible. The formation of this disease starts when the patient is young.

Characteristics of seborrhoea alopecia

Androgenetic hormones are present in large quantities, which stimulate the sebaceous glands and leads to the formation of seborrhoea. Seborrhoea causes increased changes in the hair, greasiness and uncomfortable itching. Hair loss starts at the temples and on the crown of head. In such cases the hair becomes very thin, lifeless and it needs nutriment.

Other conditions that cause hair loss:

- Thyroid gland, kidney, female hormonal problems
- Extended fever
- Use of anti-coagulants
- Diet, poor nourishment
- Bad blood circulation
- Low blood pressure
- Taking of contraceptive pill
- Vitamin deficiency and over dosage

Hair loss can be caused by stress:

The life cycle of hair becomes shorter, with many hairs moving prematurely into the telogen period.
May be caused by:
- Psycho-physical tiredness
- Car accident
- Report of death
- Fear of hair loss itself

Zonal hair loss:

In this case the hair falls in large quantities but just from certain parts of the head.
May be caused by:
- Psychological cause
- Local infection
- Inflammation (e.g. teeth, tonsils)
- Hormonal problems

ALOPECIA AREATA: The exact cause is unknown yet, a kind of self defending disease. The human tissue of the immunological is defending itself, in the present case the follicle units of the hair. The healing is different at every patient, the spontaneous healing is at 30-40%.
In acute cases, when the disease becomes advanced in a short time, we must be looking for inflammations in the organism.

ALOPECIA AREATA TOTALIS: we talk about this when all hair falls out.

ALOPECIA AREATA UNIVERSALIS: is when hair falls not only from the scalp but also from other parts of the body.

ALOPECIA OPHIASIS: hair falls from crag to the ears. Besides the loss of the hair we can observe problems also at the growth of the nails.

ANDROGEN ALOPECIA: Appears usually at women. In the period of changing the level of female hormones becomes lower in the organism. In the same time the level of the masculine hormones, androgens, present also in the female organism increases. The baldness of the women shows an other model than as of the men. We can talk about hair loss on the whole head, on the crown of the head we can observe a linear rarifing.

TRICHOTILLOMANIE: The extortion of the hair caused by depression. This phenomenon is explained in each case by psychological motif.

HAIR LOSS AND BALDNESS AS RESULT OF CHEMOTHERAPY: chemotherapy applies the so called citostaticals. Citostaticals distroy the cells that grow fast and divide often, like the tumourous cells. But these attack not only the unhealthy but also the healthy cells. This causes the falling of the hair, which differs at every patient, depending of the hair quantity before the treatment nad of the intensity of the medicines used as treatment. After finishing the treatment the hair grows out again, oftenly becomes more dense than it was before.