What Causes Hair Loss?

Hair loss is a quite popular disease and makes patients feel very uncomfortable because it affects their appearance much badly. People with hair loss do not feel self-confident in communication. So what are the reasons causing this disease?

Scientists say that losing less than 100 hairs per day is not considered as a disease, it is completely normal.

Hair can show much about health. Healthy people's hair grows fast while one of sickly people grows slowly, are bare and thinly populated.

There are many reasons leading to hair loss, some of them are clear, some other are not:

*Heredity is one of the causes of hair loss. Being bald-headed especially in men is a hereditary with a high rate.

*Living in a bad environment including polluted water source, too much exhaust fume and dust in the air can increase the risk of losing hair.

*A diet that is not good for health like going on a diet unreasonably can cause a shortage of some nutritive substances that are very necessary for hair growth like iron, protein. Hair loss also becomes more serious after events relating to health like being ill or infecting with a certain disease.

*Treating a or some certain diseases with medicines especially treating cancer with X rays can also lead to hair loss. Some medicines can help patients to recover from diseases but have a side effect of causing hair loss.

*Using unsuitable treatment products that make hair become dry, weak, break easily, changing hairstyle so many times in a short time. This reason usually happens in women because they are interested in such products like that. Therefore, before deciding to take medicine, patients should study about it and ask advices from doctors.

*Being worried and stressful also have to be responsible for hair loss. Hair is a part that can be easily affect by mental state.

*Having the bad habit of braiding hair too tightly

After realizing reasons causing hair loss, the next step to take is looking for efficient treatments for this disease:

*Like other parts of the body, hair also needs to be fed. Therefore, one of methods to improve hair's health is having a good diet that provides body with enough nutritive substances and vitamins like vitamin A, vitamin E, etc.

*Stop abusing chemical products that can damage hair. It is not necessary to give up those products completely but reducing the use of them is a very helpful action. Abusing chemical products does not only harm your hair but also increase the risk of scalp cancer.

*Using anti-hair loss products. Nowadays, men who are bald-headed do not have to worry much because there are many types of anti-hair loss products in the market. With advices from specialists and careful studying, you can choose the best one for you.

*Treat hair with natural products like chicken eggs, etc. Using mixture of chicken eggs several times a week will provide hair with useful nutritive substances that make hair strong, smooth and shining.