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Hair loss sometimes develops continuously and will be incomplete or large. You lose about 100 hairs from the head each day. The average scalp contains about 100,000 hair.

each hair survives for a median of four years, during which grows about 1.25 cm (inch) per month. Sometimes the hair falls in its fifth year and is replaced within six months for a newer one. genetic hair loss is due to the inability of the body to produce new hairs and not by excessive loss of the latter.

Males and females of the loss of hair thickness and amount tend to occur as they age. Baldness is often caused by disease and is linked to aging, heredity and testosterone. The pattern baldness or'pattern 'affects men much more expensive. About twenty-five percent of men begin to bald by the age of thirty years and about two-thirds are either bald or have thinning model age of sixty years.

* Baldness male pattern implies a line of receding hairline and thinning around the crown with eventual bald spots. Finally, we can have a single lock of hair in the shape of a horseshoe on the side. In addition to genes, male pattern baldness seems to require the presence of the male hormone testosterone, so guys who do not (because of genetic abnormalities or castration) do not develop this pattern of hair loss.
* Some women develop a model of baldness due particularly genetics, age and male hormones (which tend to increase among women after menopause), but this trend is not like men. Male pattern baldness involves a thinning in the scalp while the frontal hairline line remains generally intact.

Cases

A physical or emotional stress can cause an unexpected drop in half to three quarters of the hair in the scalp (called telogen effluvium). You may notice that your hair in bunches, while applying the shampoo, toothbrush or running her hands through his hair. You may not notice it for weeks or months after the episode of stress. Shedding of hair loss by 6-8 months.

The causes of this type of alopecia are:

* A high fever or infection dark
* Childbirth
* Bleeding after major surgery, serious illness, sudden
* Severe emotional stress
* crash diets, especially those that do not contain enough protein
* Many drugs, including retinoids, contraceptive pills, beta-blockers, some anti-depression, NSAIDs (including ibuprofen) and calcium channel blockers

Some of thirty women at age 60 may notice thin hair that has an effect on the scalp completely. Alopecia can be cumbersome at first, then slows or stops consistently. There is no known cause for this type of hair loss.

Other possible causes of baldness, especially if an unusual pattern include:

* Alopecia Areata Bald arriving on the scalp, beard, and possibly, eyebrows. Eyelashes may fall.
* Autoimmune diseases such as lupus
* Burns
* Certain diseases such as syphilis
* The excessive use of shampoo and hair
* Thyroid disease
* Nervous habits like hair pulling or repeated rubbing the scalp
Radiotherapy *
* Tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp)
* Tumors of the adrenal gland or ovary

Homecare

Returns alopecia due to menopause or childbirth often the standard of 6 months to 2 years later.

When hair loss is due to illness (including fever), radiation therapy, the use of drugs or any other cause, no treatment is necessary, because the hair grows back when the illness has ended or therapy is completed. In the meantime, you can use a wig, hat or other covering until the hair grows back.

Hair extensions, hairpieces, or change of hairstyle may disguise hair loss. In general, this technique is the least expensive.