All About Women's Hair Loss: What Are The Causes For Thinning Hair And Solutions – Part 1

Your Hair Says a Lot About You

For most women hair is way more than a bundle of fibres when it comes long, short, bouncy, or sleek. It comes to be an expression of your style and personality. It can really freak you out if you start to lose your hair. 

Hair Loss Isn’t Just a Guy Thing

Women lose hair the same way men do whether it's short or long-term. Your centre part could get wider and wider as it might thin all over. At the crown of your head, you might even get a bad spot. A receding front hairline is one thing women rarely have. 

How Does Hair Grow?

Home to about 100,000 hairs is your scalp. They come with their own life cycle for each hair. Growing at a rate of half an inch per month, a follicle produces a single hair. It is observed that they hang in there for 2 to 6 years eventually stopping for about a month. The hair falls out when the next cycle starts up. Most of your locks are in the growth phase at any given time. 

How Much Hair Loss Is Normal?

Every day most people shed about 50-100 strands. If you find a few on your hairbrush or your clothes, don’t worry. Check with your doctor if it starts to fall out in clumps or if you notice it getting thinner over time.

What Are the Roots of Hair Loss?

For hair loss, there is no single cause. Ranging from those medical conditions as many as 30 to stress and lifestyle factors, like what you eat are the triggers. Playing a role is your genes too. There are often specific reasons that doctors can’t find. Hair loss experts suggest you get tested for thyroid problems and hormone imbalances as a starting point. Once the cause is addressed, hair often grows back. 

Can You Measure Hair Loss?

The answer is yes. Using the Savin scale are the doctors. That which is rare, it ranges from normal hair density to a bald crown. A condition your doctor might call androgenic alopecia, the scale helps document female pattern baldness. It affects about 30 million American women as you probably know it as male pattern baldness. Along with the hormonal changes of menopause, experts think genes and aging play a role. With the greatest loss along the centre of the scalp, your hair could thin all over. 

Hair Loss Trigger: Thyroid Problems

Pumping out chemicals that keep your body humming along is this butterfly-shaped gland at the front of your neck. Your hair growth cycle might take a hit if it makes too much or too little thyroid hormone. Rarely the only sign of thyroid problem are thinner locks. You may notice changes in your heart rate, you might lose or gain weight or become sensitive to cold or heat. 

Hair Loss Trigger: PCOS

Your hormones are always out of whack if you have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). More than it should, the body makes more male hormones or androgen. While the hair on your head thins out, this can cause extra hair to sprout on your face and body. Leading to ovulation problems, acne, and weight gain is PCOS. The only obvious sign is sometimes thinning hair. 

Hair Loss Trigger: Alopecia Areata

Causing hair to fall out in big patches is alopecia areata. Attacking healthy hair follicles by mistake, the culprit is your own immune system. The damage isn’t permanent in most cases. Growing back in 6 months to a year are the missing locks. Whereas it is rare, some people lose all the hair on their scalp and body. 

Hair Loss Trigger: Ringworm

It triggers a distinct hair loss pattern itchy, round bald patches when the ringworm fungus affects the scalp. Here they come to look like scaly and red. With antifungal medication, it is possible that your doctor teats it. Check your family members too for symptoms as it is easy to spread by direct contact. 

Hair Loss Trigger: Childbirth

During pregnancy, you might notice your hair seems fuller. It is because of the high hormone levels keeping the resting hairs from falling out. Things go back to normal and those strands will fall out quickly after the baby comes. Losing a lot of hair at once is also a possibility. For your locks to return to normal, it could take up to 2 years. 

The Discussion Continues 

There are more triggers and causes you need to know. Read about them in the next part.