Women's Hair Loss - The Numbers Are Surprising

By Janice Brown


Women's hair loss happens for different reasons, and it's more prevalent than most people know. Another thing that is so surprising about this issue is that hair loss in women can often happen just as much as it does in men, yet there's so much more awareness about the condition in men. Ok, then why don't you hear about the situation for women as much?

There are not many, if any, media programming on the subject of female hair loss problems. What is known at this point is there is more than one reason for a thinning hair condition seen in women. Continue reading to discover some of the reasons why a woman's hair may begin to thin.

The most obvious reason that a woman might lose her hair is to cancer therapy treatments. Hair loss or significant thinning can be caused by chemotherapy treatments. Fortunately, there is so much help and support available to women in this category. There are even charities that are devoted to helping women find wigs that are made out of real hair so that they can look as "natural" as possible while they wait for their hair to start growing back on its own.

Alopecia areata is the main cause of female pattern baldness and thinning. The condition that causes this in women is of the autoimmune variety of disorder. There is no real way to tell if you have this disorder on your own. Your family doctor is the only person to make that kind of diagnosis. Should you notice that your hair is thinning, then go see your doctor about that. This particular condition is certainly able to be treated, though. Because it is autoimmune there are ways that you can treat it. When you see your doctor, you'll be given a way to treat it that will work best for you.

Menopause has the distinction of causing hair loss in a huge majority of cases with women. There are numerous changes that occur when menopause hits, and hair loss is among them. In fact, a woman loses more hair through shedding and other problems after she goes through menopause than she typically does beforehand. Her levels of estrogen will decrease, and that has an affect on other hormones and body chemistry. Unlike other types of hormone imbalances, however, in this case the hair loss cannot be brought back through hormone replacement therapy alone. There could be other options that you may be interested in, so speak with your family doctor.

Men's hair loss is much more widely discussed than women's hair loss. It's hard to say why this is so. It is perfectly understandable that most women are probably too embarrassed to seek help with this condition. We can only hope that this will change in time. Maybe with more patience and time things will change and women's hair loss will be understood more.




About the Author:



  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

0 comments:

Post a Comment