Almost everyone cares about the condition of the hair on the head. Everyone wants them to be beautiful and shiny, and almost did not fall out. Often, the hair is very beautiful, but what if suddenly their appearance in a short period deteriorated? Usually in such situations they come to the conclusion that just the wrong care was chosen, it is necessary to urgently change the means for the hair. Sometimes this is true, but most often the hair reflects the state of the body as a whole, point to some serious problems.
One of the main causes of men's hair loss and in women as well is a violation of the hormonal background. Indeed, it often leads to a disruption of hair production or hair growth. This is serious enough. If there is a similar failure, a certain number of years pass, the process becomes irreversible and it is possible to restore normal hair growth quite rarely enough.
The main cause is the lack of the hormone dihydrotestosterone in the body. What is it and how does it affect the growth of hair? Dihydrotestosterone will likely be more than necessary, in order to grow normal, good hair. So, how is dihydrotestosterone manifested? The body produces a certain amount of testosterone the main male sex hormone. In the follicle itself, it is an enzyme that, by affecting testosterone, produces dihydrotestosterone, which is detrimental to the hair follicle, it affects them in such a way that it kills the cell itself and, after a certain time, can be replaced by a connective tissue and hair growth stops completely. However, there are a lot of reasons for men's hair loss. First, we should remember all that we have already said and plus heredity, severe viral diseases, thyroid dysfunction, a violation to a certain extent that may occur in the absence of nutrition, the same diets, the lack of protein. It can also serve as hair loss, smoking, trauma, vitamin deficiency or lack of iron, zinc.
Hair is very difficult to repair if the fault of their damage was a disease. Hair begins to lose its attractiveness when the disease already exists, but does not yet manifest itself, and only recover after a few months, if not start treatment on time.
How not to skip the beginning of men's hair loss and not confuse this disease with a physiological change of hair? With a physiological change of hair, as a rule, everything is quite noticeable, there may be a slight thinning out only, somewhere, but total pondering, no, this is a normal physiological process. At whom as there is a process of restoration, term different. You should not be afraid of the usual reaction of the body. In men, the degree of hair thinning is much greater. If it is short, thinned all this indicates that there are either age problems.
On the basis of what is the diagnosis?
For the beginning you must confirm or deny it, because it can be really this illness or just fungus, to carry out a certain diagnosis. It is necessary to pass analyzes on hormones, necessarily the general analysis of urine and blood (the basic analyzes which can open eyes to some problems in an organism). Consultation of the trichologist is necessary if you have already visited the dermatologist in the beginning, and if first you have visited trichologist then consultation of the dermatologist is necessary to know whether there is no a fungoid defeat; consultation of a neuropathologist, who will say if there are some neuropathological problems; the therapist, if suddenly there are problems with the gastrointestinal tract; to make an ultrasound of the thyroid gland.
There are special scales for measuring men's hair loss. For men are created the Norwood scale:
It has 7 degrees, in other sources 6, even in some sources there are 7 main and 3 under the species.
1. The first degree is small bald patches in the temporal areas.
2. The second degree is an insignificant thinning of the parietal region of the hair.
3. Third degree is in the occipital.
4. Fourth degree on the area begins to spread, captures completely parietal-occipital region.
5. The fifth degree is a more active form.
6. Sixth degree almost is complete hair loss.
7. Seventh degree it is logical to assume that this is the last stage, and it does not represent anything good.
More than 85% of men over 50 y.o. and about 40% of women face this problem to some extent. It causes people a lot of suffering - most of them are associated with psychological discomfort. An effective suitable for all means, which helps coping this problem, has not yet been invented, but some anti-alopecia drugs from the market are really working. In addition, there is also non-drug treatment, for example, hair transplantation. But if the doctor still confirmed the diagnosis, then the therapy usually includes medications. The most popular and effective are the well-known Propecia and Finpecia.
Besides, traditional methods of treatment men's hair loss are also alternative. The most popular alternative treatments are: mesotherapy, laser comb, Darsonval, Fully powder, transplantation.
