What Causes Female Balding?
Have you noticed that your hair is thinning and falling out? Are you getting more strands of hair in your hair brush
after you get done brushing your hair in the morning? What about more hair in
the tub or shower drain after every shower? These could be signs that you need
to look into female balding and what causes hair loss.
Is Female Pattern Baldness Common?
The short answer is yes. It is more common than we realize. Unfortunately, if some of the older women in your family have been victims of female pattern baldness, you may also be in line to suffer the same fate. There is hope, if you know what is causing your female pattern baldness then maybe you can put some prevention tactics into action and decrease your chances of becoming bald like the other women in your family did.
Here are the top medical causes of balding in women. The three main medical reasons for hair loss in women are:
- Androgenic Alopecia
- Telogen Effluvium
- Alopecia Areata
Androgenic
alopecia, or female pattern baldness is the leading cause of hair loss in
women. Androgenic alopecia can affect any woman at any point in her life,
especially if she has a familial predisposition to hair loss. This means it is
hereditary and more likely than not you will experience hair loss just like mom
and grandma. In androgenic alopecia, what happens is the hair follicles become
very sensitive to the androgens in the blood stream. Androgens enter the
androgen receptors in the hair follicle and tell the hair follicles to produce
less hair. Your hair then becomes thinner and soon the follicles die off and
you are left with less hair.
Telogen Effluvium
is the second of the most common female hair loss causes. This condition is
caused by an increased amount of stress in your life, unusually high amounts of
prolonged stress causes your hair to become thin and fall out. You may notice
this type of hair loss when you become pregnant. With all the changes your body
goes through with being pregnant, all the hormone fluctuations can cause hair
thinning or loss. Usually though, with the resolution of the prolonged, high
stress, your hair will grow back just fine.
Alopecia areata
is the the third most common cause of hair loss in women and may be linked to
immunodeficiencies in the woman's body. If the immunodeficiency is identified,
treated and gets resolved then so does the hair loss and hair grows back.
Other medical reasons a woman may lose her hair are vitamin and mineral deficiencies, including iron deficiency which causes anemia. Thyroid dysfunction and liver problems can cause thinning hair. Chemotherapy treatments for cancer will make a woman lose her hair but this is only temporary. When the course of chemotherapy is complete, your hair should grow back. Any of these conditions can be temporary and when treated correctly and are under control, your hair can and will grow back.
Menopause is also a big reason why some women lose
their hair. Just like with pregnancy, menopause causes all sorts of hormonal fluctuations and hair becomes thin and fragile.
If you hair loss
becomes severe, talk to your doctor about female hair loss causes and ask to be
tested for any of the above conditions to rule them out. You may just need to
learn how to decrease the stress in your life to get your full, head of hair
back.
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