Now a days, hair fall is very common condition, most of the people suffering from. It is quite frustrating to see losing bunches of your hair. Many people try different oils, shampoos, home remedies like onion juice and many more to get rid of it. But do you know, taking any kind of treatment, without knowing reason for your hair fall is like shooting in the dark?
Hence first you should know the reason for your hair fall. There are two broad categories of hair fall:
Reversible
This type of hair fall is secondary to some underlying cause, like:
- a. Nutritional deficiency – Deficiency of vitamin B12, vitamin D3, Iron, zinc, copper, selenium can leads to hair fall.
- b. Febril illness – Deficiency of vitamin B12, vitamin D3, Iron, zinc, copper, selenium can leads to hair fall.
- c. Protein deficiency – As our hair is made up of proteins, it’s deficiency can leads to weak, fragile hair vulnerable to fall easily. Minimum requirement is 40gm/day.
- d. Thyroid disorder – Hair thinning can be first sign of thyroid disorder.
- e. Mental stress – Stress can cause or aggravate your hair fall.
- f. Major surgery – If you are undergoing any kind of major surgery, abortion or in fact normal delivery put lot of stress on body, which can leads to protein deficiency, hormonal imbalances and resulting into severe hair fall.
- g. Parlour procedure – Straightening, perming, cysteine, keratin treatments can damage your hair leading to hair fall or worsening of existing ones.
- h. Fungal infection – This is more common in children. Seen as well circumscribed area of scaling, swelling or hair loss. Hair over affected area looks grey, lustreless and are easily pluckable. Sometimes it can get secondary infected with bacteria, leading to pus discharge or foul smelling discharge. It should be get treated earliest otherwise can leads to patch of permanent hair loss.
- i. Chemotherapy – The cancer treatment, in the form of chemotherapy can leads to sudden loss of hair over entire scalp. The high doses of chemotherapeutic agent put lot of stress over body. The hair fall secondary to above mentioned causes is clinically seen as diffuse thinning of hair involving entire scalp. If underlying cause is corrected or get recovered, this hair fall generally recoved. Hence this type of hair fall need temporary treatment.
Irreversible
This kind of hair fall is secondary to positive family history. This is characterised by receding hair line or complete/ partial boldness over upper half of the scalp in males, while in females, as thinning of hair over vertex. The area above your neck, called occipital area is always spared in such type of hair fall. In this condition, as you have genes for hair fall in your blood, there is not permanent treatment. Treatment is lifelong till you want a good hair density over your scalp. Minoxidil with or without other topical and/or systemic drugs is treatment of choice.
