Baldness

Symptoms:
From the early signs of baldness, a steady loss of hair is easily noticeable, characterized by receding hairlines, bald spots on the front of the head, and a significant amount of stray hairs caught in a comb or brush. If these symptoms are noticed at an early enough age, the consequences of leaving this untreated can be great.

The first indicator of baldness is usually your comb, brush or shower drain. When you start noticing more than the normal hair shedding it is time to take notice and consider starting a hair therapy treatment regimen.

You could take a closer look at your diet, lifestyle, and family history of baldness to try and figure out a cure, though it is best to call a competent physician. Remember, though, a positive and calm outlook goes a long way in helping find the right remedy or formula to effectively control hair loss. Stress is itself a cause of hair loss, so worrying that your hair may never return may negate any positive effects of a baldness treatment.

cause:
1. Age can cause baldness and hair loss, by it\\\'s effects on hormones and the weakening immune system. This type of baldness and hairloss is often reversible, using hair loss treatments targeting the hormone problem. However, age also affects our hair loss in a more permanent way - some of our hair follicles die, and this hair loss cannot be reversed. For those of you interested in stats, 40% of men have significant hair loss or some baldness BEFORE they turn 40 years old.

2. Illness can cause baldness. In terms of illnesses that cause baldness and or hair loss, infections of the scalp, scarlet fever, and typhoid fever are three prominent ones. This type of baldness is also often reversed when the illness is recovered from - most can expect all their hair to regrow back..

3. Genetics can certainly be a cause of baldness in a small number of individuals. Baldness that is genetically determined is rare, and often irreversible.

4. Lifestyle can cause baldness in some individuals - such as tight braiding, poor diet, and so on. Often the baldness and or hair loss is reversible, but it does depend on what actually caused it. For example, tight braiding can sometimes scar the scalp, destroy the hair follicles, making normal hair regrowth essentially impossible.

5. Environmental factors can cause baldness, such as exposure to caustic gases, xrays and pollutants. Whether the baldness is reversible, again depends on what causes it. As a general rule of thumb, if the hair follicles are not destroyed, hair regrowth is possible.

6. Some medications can also cause hair loss and premature baldness. Chemotherapy is well reknowned for causing hair loss and baldness. Mostly a reversible form of hair loss and baldness.

7. Hair products can also sometimes cause hair loss and baldness - the more chemicalized, the more the potential for trouble. My brother in law went bald prematurely as a result of using such a product, my wife came close as well to becoming bald. As long as the hair follicles are left alive and well, hair regrowth is possible and likely.

8. Fungal infections or tumors of the scalp that cause baldness are easy to cure via medicine, although it may take an extremely long time - weeks to months to years - for the drugs to take full effect and for hair to regrow fully.

9. And Hormonal changes can definitely cause baldness.

Type:
Anagen Effluvium, or permanent hair loss, is caused by the loss of the follicles.

One of the causes of baldness is the condition called as Telogen Effluvium, or a non-permanent loss of hair, is caused by the transitory damage of the hair follicles.
Both the above forms of baldness and hair loss are extremely common in adults.

Alopecia Areata is a baldness symptomised by the sudden loss of hair and normally leaves patchy areas of hair loss or baldness on the scalp.

Alopecia Totalis is a baldness characterised by hair loss over the whole scalp.

lopecia Universalis is hair loss and baldness affecting all hair producing areas of the body, including the scalp, underarms, eyebrows and pubic hairs.

Androgenetic Alopecia refers to baldness caused by normal genetic influences. For men, it\\\'s mainly caused by DHT, while in women other genes and their genetic expression are responsible.

Traction Alopecia is baldness and hair loss caused by pulling on the hair - such as when braiding, pony tailing, styling and so on, as can be seen in the photo on the right.
Excessive combing of hair has also been found to contribute to baldness and hair thinning

Male-pattern Alopecia is well known, it just refers to the normal ordinary baldness of men.