Women and Hair Thinning

Hair loss can lead to mental disturbance and causes a lot of stress and anxiety in women especially. As women are sensitive they feel that they will be targeted by friends and relatives who will give them a look of sympathy or may make remarks behind their backs. This further leads them to cut themselves off from the society, they stop socializing with people and this hair loss problem affects their day to day routine as they are not able to come face to face with their problem. Their relation on the professional as well as personal level is strained and they go into depression.

If you are one of those suffering from this problem of hair loss then you must be thinking why did this problem of hair loss have to attack me of all persons and what will happen next. Well to make matters simpler you are not the only person suffering from hair loss. This hair loss does not follow any particular pattern as found in men. You should not get scared when you notice that your hairs are thinning as this thinning of hair can be due to various reasons like pregnancy, major illness, hormonal imbalance etc. Hair loss due to hormonal imbalance and heredity leave a permanent effect as they are not reversible. While hair loss due to illness, poor diet can be rectified by taking care and thus you will be able to regain your lost hair after the problem is solved. Men tend to loose hair earlier than women and it has been found that women usually loose their hairs in their fifties or sometimes even later.

But then if you find hair loss which is more than the normal hair loss then you need to see your family physician who will help make an early diagnosis. There are different patterns which can be considered as a sign of Androgenetic Alopecia. This may lead to thinning of the hair in the front of the scalp as well as thinning of the hair at the back and sometimes it has been found that there is an overall thinning of the hair on the entire scalp. These are the obvious signs for Androgenetic Alopecia and it has been found that sometimes this problem is faced very early in life i.e. during the early 20s even though most of them suffer from this only during their 50s or sometimes after that, and that is the reason why you need to see a specialist so that you get a proper diagnose of your hair thinning problem. There have been few cases where there has been no particular reason for the hair loss and cannot be associated with hair loss pattern. Hair loss due to Trichotillomania where hair loss is caused due to pulling of the hair, triangular alopecia is a temporary loss of hair, scarring alopecia involves scarring the area of the scalp and telogen effluvium is due to hormonal or sometimes associated with stress.