When it comes to losing hair, most women think “that doesn’t concern me, it’s men’s problem.” The truth is that even though men are more likely to start losing their hair, it can happen to anyone. Thinning hair and hair loss is a problem that women are most likely to notice in their 50s and 60s, but it can occur at any age and from all kinds of reasons.
First of all, it is completely normal for a human to lose some amount of hair on a regular basis. Your scalp is consisted of around 100,000 hair strands. Experts say that amount of hair that is lost per day is between 50 and 100. On a day it's washed this number grows to around 250 strands per day. If you start noticing that you’re losing a lot more than that, you should start intervening. Even though it’s quite a freaky situation, don’t panic yet, studies have shown that many of the anti-hair loss treatments have a positive effect on this matter. The causes of the hair loss vary, from genetic components – hair loss tends to be inherited from one’s mother or father – to medical conditions, stress, diet and lifestyle characteristics. It may take a while to determine the right cause, but once you figure it out and start treating it, the hair will most likely start growing back normally.
Hair loss in pregnancy
Pregnancy is definitely one of the most beautiful things that can happen to a woman. However, a pregnant body constantly changes, and a hormonal boost can affect future mother’s hair. In most cases, however, it’s not the hormones that cause hair loss, but the physical stress of delivering a baby, so basically most frequent scenario is that hair loss comes up after delivering. But don’t be afraid, with this type of hair loss you will lose an insignificant amount of strands, your hair will fully recover very fast and you’ll forget all about it as soon as you see the beautiful baby you’ve given birth to.
Physical and Mental Stress
Stress is one of the most common reasons for losing hair. Whether it is physical or mental stress (e.g. divorce or car accident) hair shedding is very likely to occur. The good news is that this is temporary hair loss, given that stressful situations don’t persist.
Unhealthy food = Unhealthy hair
Our body works like an extremely complex machine and there are numerous processes happening every second inside of us, but some of them are very logical even if you have no clue about human anatomy. Simply put, if we constantly eat junk food and other meals with no nutritional benefits for us whatsoever, our body will direct all of its nutritional stores to our vital parts, such as brain or heart, and hair will suffer. Lack of protein in our organism is a shortcut to losing hair, so don’t avoid food like fish, meat, eggs and dairy products. Of course, this doesn’t mean that vegetarians and vegans are condemned to being bald. There are many protein sources for them too like seeds, nuts, beans and much more.
No matter what the cause is, one thing is certain – women who are losing their hair suffer from low self-esteem, which impacts their social life significantly.
Luckily there are many products on the market, like oils and shampoos which are proven to help with this annoying problem. They nourish hair with necessary vitamins, stimulate hair growth and reduce hair and scalp irritations. Some of those products that have proven to be rather effective are Ducray - Neoptide Lotion Anti-Hair Loss Treatment for Woman; La Roche-Posay - Kerium ANTI-HAIRLOSS SHAMPOO; Vichy - Dercos Energising Shampoo for Hair Loss.
Nessie L.B.