What is hair loss?
• In men and women as a result of hormonal changes that occur depending on the age and genetic causes hair loss.
• In addition, traumatic causes, burns and various skin diseases, the precipitating cause of the hair.
• Hair loss can prepare physically, in addition to problems and psychological problems.
• The loss is not reversible, but it is possible to win with a hair transplant on a pain-free and convenient way, the hair back.
• The failure of 50 to 100 hairs a day is considered normal medically.
• Only if this number is exceeded, one may speak of hair loss.
Alopecia is the technical term for hair loss. There are different types of hair loss:
1. The most common form is androgenetic alopecia (male type). This begins with alopecia derAusdünnung of hair at the top of the head and the so-called receding hairline. Hair loss in men usually starts at the age of 20 years. Only the area at the back and sides is spared. Androgenetic alopecia is genetic and therefore impossible to stop. It also plays the male hormone, and age in androgenetic alopecia a major role.
2. Type 2 is called telogen effluvium and occurs after long-term fever, after a severe infection after major surgery or general stress and leads to a loss of hair within a short period of 2-3 months. In some women, this model can occur after childbirth, as can fluctuate during pregnancy, the hormones rather.
3. Some medications can also trigger hair loss.
4. In particular, cytotoxic drugs can lead to sudden and diffuse hair loss in cancer patients.
5. Tinea capitis is the trigger for a fungal infection and is responsible for a partial failure. The hair is broken during the growth of hair from the scalp and falls out.
6. Also, a trauma can lead to hair loss. When using hair straighteners or curling irons, the hair is exposed to extreme heat. Chemicals or the pulling of hair can also lead to hair loss.