Sunday, June 26, 2011

Hair loss can occur for different reasons. As of now, there still is no definite treatment that is applicable for those who are worried about the state of their hair. To be able to get the right hair loss treatments, a person would have to identify what type of hair problem he or she should deal with.

Therefore, the first step to treating alopecia is to identify, with the help of an expert, the type of alopecia that hit you and so you could proceed with the treatment options. If the hair loss is due to stress, illness, sudden and drastic weight loss or the like, doctors would tell you to just keep yourself off whatever it is that you are thinking or to give your hair time to grow back. These would not trigger hair fall for a very long time.

The sudden changes in the hormones due to stress or illness would cause hair to fall but once the balance is attained again, things will be back to normal and your hair would grow again. The same thing is true with those who are into crash dieting. When the nutrition level changes rapidly, the hair would fall but once proper nutrition intake is re-attained, the hair could grow back normally again.

Those who went through illness would also notice that their hair fall would be excessive but as long as they recovered from that, the hair would also grow back even without any effort or use of hair treatments. Should you have hair loss due to a different and slightly permanent cause, such as alopecia areata’s different forms—androgenic alopecia, traction alopecia and alopecia universalis—you would have to settle for certain methods. Usually, the condition would last for a year or so and the patches would disappear and hair would grow back. But since a year is a bit too long a time to wait, the best that a person could do is to resort to various treatments available.

There are approved medications for hair loss which a patient could use conveniently but there are also clinical procedures as treatments hair loss for those who would want more results or expert inputs in their efforts to grow their hair back. Severe hair loss especially one that has been bothering a person for a decade or so would be a hard thing to deal with and often, there are no treatments that could grow the hair back. Hairstyles that could hide the thinning of the hair could be a very good option for some, while others stick to wigs and extensions to get a full hair effect.

Another popular option for some people now is to have hair transplant which is a process where the hair from the healthy areas of the scalp (those parts where hair grows healthily) are harvested and transplanted to the part where hair loss is very visible. When administered by an expert, the result could be very pleasing as if hair loss never occurred. To ensure the effectiveness of these hair loss treatments, the word of a physician would be your best reference.