What causes your hair loss?

2008-05-16T07:20:00.000-07:00

What is the normal cycle of hair growth and loss?

The normal cycle of hair growth lasts for 2 to 6 years. Each hair grows approximately 1 centimeter (less than half an inch) per month during this phase. About 90 percent of the hair on your scalp is growing at any one time. About 10 percent of the hair on your scalp, at any one time, is in a resting phase. After 2 to 3 months, the resting hair falls out and new hair starts to grow in its place.

It is normal to shed some hair each day as part of this cycle. However, some people may experience excessive (more than normal) hair loss. Hair loss of this type can affect men, women and children.

What causes excessive hair loss?

A number of things can cause excessive hair loss. For example, about 3 or 4 months after an illness or a major surgery, you may suddenly lose a large amount of hair. This hair loss is related to the stress of the illness and is temporary.

Hormonal problems may cause hair loss. If your thyroid gland is overactive or underactive, your hair may fall out. This hair loss usually can be helped by treatment thyroid disease. Hair loss may occur if male or female hormones, known as androgens and estrogens, are out of balance. Correcting the hormone imbalance may stop your hair loss.

Many women notice hair loss about 3 months after they've had a baby. This loss is also related to hormones. During pregnancy, high levels of certain hormones cause the body to keep hair that would normally fall out. When the hormones return to pre-pregnancy levels, that hair falls out and the normal cycle of growth and loss starts again.

Some medicines can cause hair loss. This type of hair loss improves when you stop taking the medicine. Medicines that can cause hair loss include blood thinners (also called anticoagulants), medicines used for gout, medicines used in chemotherapy to treat cancer, vitamin A (if too much is taken), birth control pills and antidepressants.

Certain infections can cause hair loss. Fungal infections of the scalp can cause hair loss in children. The infection is easily treated with antifungal medicines.

Finally, hair loss may occur as part of an underlying disease, such as lupus or diabetes. Since hair loss may be an early sign of a disease, it is important to find the cause so that it can be treated.

Can improper care of my hair cause hair loss?

Yes. If you wear pigtails or cornrows or use tight hair rollers, the pull on your hair can cause a type of hair loss called traction alopecia (say: al-oh-pee-sha). If the pulling is stopped before scarring of the scalp develops, your hair will grow back normally. However, scarring can cause permanent hair loss. Hot oil hair treatments or chemicals used in permanents (also called "perms") may cause inflammation (swelling) of the hair follicle, which can result in scarring and hair loss.

What is common baldness?

The term "common baldness" usually means male-pattern baldness, or permanent-pattern baldness. Male-pattern baldness is the most common cause of hair loss in men. Men who have this type of hair loss usually have inherited the trait. Men who start losing their hair at an early age tend to develop more extensive baldness. In male-pattern baldness, hair loss typically results in a receding hair line and baldness on the top of the head.

Women may develop female-pattern baldness. In this form of hair loss, the hair can become thin over the entire scalp.

Can my doctor do something to stop hair loss?

Perhaps. Your doctor will probably ask you some questions about your diet, any medicines you're taking, whether you've had a recent illness and how you take care of your hair. If you're a woman, your doctor may ask questions about your menstrual cycle, pregnancies and menopause. Your doctor may want to do a physical exam to look for other causes of hair loss. Finally, blood tests or a biopsy (taking a small sample of cells to examine under a microscope) of your scalp may be needed.

Is there any treatment for hair loss?

Depending on your type of hair loss, treatments are available. If a medicine is causing your hair loss, your doctor may be able to prescribe a different medicine. Recognizing and treating an infection may help stop the hair loss. Correcting a hormone imbalance may prevent further hair loss.

Medicines may also help slow or prevent the development of common baldness or even regrow your hair. There are two proven helping medicines - Herbofinax and Profinast. Both can be used without a prescription, and are only for men. The pills are natural products, the hair fall should stop in the first 7-10 days of the treatment.

If adequate treatment is not available for your type of hair loss, you may consider trying different hairstyles or wigs, hairpieces, hair weaves or artificial hair replacement.

How to keep your hair growing?

2008-05-14T03:22:00.001-07:00

Hair loss is a problem, no matter a very big percentage of men have it. It makes you feel old and makes you have less self confidence.

And I know what I'm talking about.

With time hair loss becomes a complex problem, which can lead to depression.

You feel nervous when someone looks at your head.
You are embarassed when people ask you if you're wearing a wig.

Well, I had that problem too. In the beginning it was nothing serious, but after the hair loss become serious it had a very big psychological effect. I like looking well, and I like when women like me. Who doesn't? I started to suggest that I'm no more attractive, I lost confidence when making presentations at work.
Of course I knew what my problem was and started looking for a solution. It took years to make my hair grow again and find the best way for doing this.
There are hundreds of treatments for baldness, but just one helped me.
It's called Herbofinax - The product that worked with me, a nice one hair loss drug.
Believe me I tried everything I found - chinese methods of hair loss treatments, pills from the pharmacy that's near my apartment, all kinds of shampoo and other hair care drugs.
Totally disappointed. Then one day a friend told me about Herbofinax.
By this time I had got used to baldness and lost any hope, that it will ever grow again. In spite of that I decided to try. It was just a click away and I had given so much money by now, that these drugs looked cheap to me. So I ordered. About two weeks later I discreetly received the pills and immediately took one.
After a month or so, I spotted the first signs of growing hair. I just can't describe the feeling! I hope you will feel the same when you try it. I was amazed, that after several years I finally got my hair growing! I returned my self-confidence, and started feeling as a handsome man again.

It is absolutely right that when you like yourself people like you too.

Now I would like to share some more information about Herbofinax:

How it works?
A male hormone called DHT is the main reason for baldness in men. Once formed, DHT binds to the hair follicle, retards growth and cuts off blood supply to the follicle. This way, hair starts to thin down and eventually falls. Herbofinax works to block DHT formation, stops hair follicle shrinkage and promote hair re-growth.

If you're worried about what it contains, here are the ingredients:
Vitamin B6,
Biotin,
Magnesium (as Magnesium Oxide),
Zinc (as Zinc Oxide),
Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens)(fruit),
Proprietary Blend,
Nettle (Urticadioica)(leaf),
Pumpkin(Cucurbitamaxima)(seed),
EleutheroRoot (Eleutherococcus senticosus),
Uva-Ursi(Arctostaphylosuva-ursi)(root),
Muria Puama (Ptychopetalum olacoides.)
Other Ingredients : Gelatin, Rice Flour, Magnesium Stearate, Silicon Dioxide, Maltodextrin, Water.

Just vitamins, herbs and nutritients. You don't need a prescription from your doctor to use it. It stops the hair loss just several days after you start using it.
And the most important: It has NO side effects. That's exactly the hair loss drug I needed and I'm now so happy that I found it. I absolutely recommend it to you. I hope after using it you feel as well as I feel now.
Here's one image leading to the website of the magic pills:

Hair Loss Drugs