The most common type of hair loss occurs in a predicable pattern, and pattern hair loss occurs when the normal cycle of hair growth changes. Usually pattern hair loss starts slowly, and continues to get progressively worse. Progressive pattern hair loss is a common occurrence among men, and less apparent but still quite common among women. While men typically suffer pattern baldness with receding hairlines and bald spots on the crown of the head, women typically experience generalized thinning hair over the entire top of the head. And as we age, the occurrence and degree of hair loss increases. There have been numerous causes blamed for pattern hair loss, including “hot blood,” excessive blood circulation in the scalp, inadequate blood circulation in the scalp, wearing hats, brushing the hair too much, brushing too little, dirty scalps, oily scalps, hormones in scalp oil, dandruff, various diseases, excessively tight scalps, inadequate oxygen reaching the hair follicles, inadequate nutrition or nutritional deficiencies, “sleeping” hair follicles, and hairs “stuck” in the hair follicles, to name just some of the “hair loss causes” offered by scientists and charlatans over the years.
Almost all pattern hair loss is caused by heredity, from genes passed on by both maternal and paternal ancestors. Hair loss caused by disease, medication, and stress and other pressure.
Most people with hair loss simply have a genetic tendency to start losing hair at a certain age, a condition that if untreated will get progressively worse. An understanding of this truth will help you to determine what you can really do about your hair loss.Almost everyone suffers from a tendency for hair loss to some degree, as very few of us when we are in our fifties, sixties, and sev-enties will have the hair we had in our teens. The degree of hair loss becomes more apparent as we age. Those individuals with a greater genetic predisposition for hair loss usually start losing their hair earlier and to a greater degree, than those with a lesser genetic predisposition. By age twenty-five, approximately twenty percent of men will show some signs of hair loss, but by age sixty the percentage will climb to about seventy-five percent. Of the seventy-five percent of men showing signs of hair loss by age sixty, about half these will have significant baldness on the front and top of their heads. Women also experience hair thinning as a result of their hair follicle’s genetic programming; noticeable hair loss however, in women typically occurs after menopause.While the entire genetic mechanism that causes hair loss is not completely understood, we do know that in individu-als with pattern hair loss, certain hair follicles are genetically programmed to be more sensitive to a hormone circulating in the blood called dihydrotestosterone, commonly abbreviated as DHT. DHT is one of several hormones classified as androgens, often referred to as “male” hormones. DHT is formed from testosterone, the most well known androgen. While men past puberty have higher levels of androgen hormones in their blood than women, it is normal for women to have some androgens, including both testosterone and DHT, circulating in their blood. Just like men with pattern baldness, some women inherit hair follicles with a genetic sensitivity to DHT, which signals pattern hair loss to their DHT-sensitive hair follicles.The cause of pattern hair loss in both men and women is DHT in the blood signaling hair follicles genetically programmed to be sensitive to DHT to stop growing new hairs.Hair follicles sensitive to DHT must be exposed to a high enough level of DHT in the blood over a long enough period of time before they get the message to start shutting down. And the message has to continue for years before a hair follicle completely stops producing new hairs.
In men with pattern baldness, the hair follicles that are most sensitive to DHT are generally located at the temples, the hairline, and on the crown of the head. This “pattern” of sensitive hair follicles in men is the reason the condition is commonly called “Male Pattern Baldness.”In women with pattern hair loss, the DHT-sensitive follicles are distributed over a wider area, and the hair loss pattern is less defined. Usually there is generalized thinning over the entire top of the head, with less thinning along the sides and on the back of the head. Women with an inherited tendency for hair loss typically have follicles sensitive to DHT distributed over the tops of their heads.Normal hair follicles go through a growth that lasts roughly four to six years, ending with the hair shaft being shed, and a brief resting period after which the growth cycle starts over again with a new hair beginning to grow from the hair follicle.But hair follicles that are sensitive to DHT, and that receive the DHT message to shut down, begin to have shorter anagen (growth) phases. The DHT circulating in the blood seems to signal these sensitive hair follicles to stop growing hair before the normal growth phase would have ended. Instead of four to six years, the growth cycle shortens to three to four years, and then one to two years, and eventually the hair follicles affected by DHT simply stop producing new hairs altogether, and stay in a sort of telogen (resting) phase. As the growth phase of the follicles becomes shorter, the hairs grown by those follicles do not grow as long as they once did.
Treatment
There are certain tips that can be followed to reduce hair loss. These are below:
- If your hair falls then heat castor oil and apply it on the hairs repeatedly to stop the hair falling.
- If the hair is lost due to sickness then rub onion juice on the head to grow it again.
- Take equal quantities of amla, black sesame, bhangro and brahmi, grind it to make a powder. By eating this powder in the morning and evening the white hairs becomes black.
- Mix sugar and lemon juice together and wash hairs with it to cure lice and dandruffs.
- Soak grams in butter milk, when the gram becomes soft at that time mash it on the head and wash the head after two hours to cure lice and dandruffs.
- By putting sesame flower, gokhru and rock salt either in coconut oil or in honey and by applying its paste avoids baldness.
- Boil a handful of mehendi leaves in 1/4th share of coconut oil. By applying that oil on the head rubbing it nicely results in long and black hairs.
- Lice is killed by applying onion juice on the head.
- By grinding neem leaves in water, and by washing hairs with that water cures dandruffs.
- When the hair falls at that time by applying goralu mud or its solution mixing it in lemon juice on the hairs avoids falling of the hairs.
- By eating cucumber without peeling it gives shine on the hairs.
- Put amla powder in warm water, boil it and wash hairs with it to make the hairs beautiful and shiny.
If the hairs are falling then, put 200 gm dry fenugreek seeds in 500 gm of pure coconut oil and keep it in the sun for 7 days. After that, filter that oil and fill it in a glass bottle. By rubbing this oil in the morning and evening on the hairs stops falling of hairs, hairs becomes black and results in new growth of hairs.
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