Losing hair or balding has to be just about the most unpleasant cosmetic catastrophe that could happen to you. Hair is not just hair it matters whether you have it or not making hair loss treatment all the more essential. On a normal day, hair falls off from our head by about 50 to 100 strands, but it grows back as fast. Yet sometimes the hair falls off, falls out, or grows in disparate patches this is the condition of Hair loss, also known as Alopecia. It is because of a varied number of factors the most common one of these being old age. However, there are young folk out there even children who experience hair loss. In these cases hair loss may be as a result of medical conditions such as diabetes and lupus, poor nutrition, medical treatment as well as chronic stress is also a major agent of hair loss.
Here are some quick facts about hair loss and treatment:
- There are different manifestations of hair loss as there are different causes. Hair loss treatment therefore varies with the type of hair loss that you are undergoing as well as what is causing it. This treatment helps to restore back the normal cycle of hair growth and rest.
What is the normal restoration of this cycle?
A normal cycle of hair growth and rest is when an individual’s hair grows by at least half an inch in a period of 2- 3 years evenly on the scalp. These are just average figures, but you should know when your hair is thinning out and falling and it is not replaced through normal growth.
Hair loss treatment is a relatively expensive affair but with the right application, it can restore back your hair. The most common way to treat thinning hair or hair that is falling off is take prescribed medication that is meant to stimulate hair follicles into producing not just more hair but evenly spread out air.
Some of the recommended medicines include:
- Finasteride and
- Midoxil that work for both males and females and are massaged into the scalp.
Hair transplantation is a drastic hair loss treatment but it has been tested, tried, and worked just fine on those who have undergone the treatment. As the name suggests, it involves taking hair from parts of the scalp that have normal hair growth and the transplanted onto those areas of the scalp that are experiencing hair loss. This procedure is great for those experiencing patches of hair loss and after the procedure; they come out with a full natural looking head. Together with this procedure, surgery may be used for extensive hair loss to reduce the scalp size and thus reducing the hairline and bringing together the parts of the scalp that have hair. Natural hair loss treatment is also a viable alternative to consider in the management of hair loss. After all hair, loss can be caused by the myriad hair treatments that men and especially women use on their hair. So going natural may involve supplementing your diet with vitamins and minerals that replenish your hair follicles. Zinc, iron, and silica are essential mineral for your hair’s health.