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Trisha Buller Trichologist Top Tips

Hair loss health advice from trichologist Trisha Buller. Trisha Buller understands the issues surrounding hair loss first hand having been a sufferer herself and is supporting Hair Loss Awareness Month by providing health tips and advice to help you with any issues you may have related to hair loss and thinning hair. She is an expert trichologist with years of experience and salon director at award winning hair and scalp clinic, Ciente. She She comments: “Hair Loss Awareness Month is a great opportunity to raise awareness around the issue of hair loss. This affects so many women and men that it is important they know they are not alone. When hair is going through a crisis it’s really important to get to the bottom of the problem and then treat accordingly. Whether this hair loss is due to stress, over styling, diet or another dramatic reason, it is best to see an expert such as a dermatologist or trichologist to diagnose the issue in order to plan the most effective next steps. It’s important that people understand there is something they can do about it, this is why advice, tips and details on supplementation are key to educating people” Trisha Buller’s top tips at Viviscal – great products for thinning hair and hair loss. “Many things, like the environment, hormones, illness, and life changing circumstances, can alter your hair and influence your hair’s condition, vitality and shine, but in particular the aging process can have a detrimental effect on the [...]

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Hair Loss – Coping With Alopecia

Coping With Hair Loss from Alopecia About Alopecia Alopecia areata is a general term used for hair loss; this can be a small bald patch on the head or the loss of all hair over the entire body. The general term alopecia can be used to refer to alopecia areata, alopecia totalis and alopecia universalis. Alopecia is not life threatening but it can be distressing at times. While there are no proven effective cures for alopecia, hair can grow back spontaneously. However, the more hair that is lost, the less likely it is to grow back. When you first get alopecia you may feel that your world has turned upside down. It may affect your relationships, work, social life and you may find it difficult to go anywhere in public. These responses are normal and understandable. Learning To Cope People with alopecia use many ways to cope with their hair loss. This article covers some of these methods and we hope it proves useful. Expressing Your Feelings Sometimes you might want to cry or shout because you feel it is unfair that you have alopecia. Do It! It’s perfectly normal to feel this way. Holding these feelings inside is one option, and it can be beneficial at times, but you may find it makes you feel tired and irritable. Finding ways to relieve tension. Exercise can help us relieve our feelings in a positive way. Some kinds of exercise are good for ecpressing anger, such as running, others are more [...]

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Boots Hair Retention Programme

Your receding hairline as you get older is probably down to male pattern baldness. There are other problems that can cause thinning hair and hair loss so it is always best to get a complete checkover by your medical practioner. If you are one of the men in the 95% group where genetics is beginning to wreak havoc on your scalp and the hair loss is becoming obvious – don’t wait until that receding hairline and a touch of scalp showing through on the crown of your head – the longer you leave it the bigger chance that the hair may be permanently lost! The culprit can often be your hormone, dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in the scalp which can provoke male pattern baldness by causing shortening and thinning hair follicles in the hair growth cycleas explained on the front page (see picture below). Hair Retention Programme All is not lost if you are in the UK! You may be able to pick a restorative programme of treatments to help retain a fuller head of hair by joining the Boots Pharmacy-led, Professional Hair Retention Programme. From their website: * 9 out of 10 men with male pattern baldness keep their hair on the Boots Hair Retention Programme, while those not on the programme continue to experience hair loss * 2 out of 3 men who stay on the programme for long-term treatment experience some re-growth of hair Now that is a very strong claim from from the major high street pharmacy, but [...]

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Nizoral Hair Loss

Nizoral shampoo has a main active ingredient is a drug called ketoconazole and is one of the best-proven weapons in the fight against fungal infections of the scalp, such as dandruff. Nizoral shampoo usually contains 1% or 2% ketoconazole, but in some countries,you may find that the 2% strong Nizoral shampoo requires a doctor’s prescription. Using Nizoral twice a week will usually keep your dandruff at bay. It is not necessary to shampoo your hair with Nizoral daily because its main active substance, ketoconazole, binds to the protein of your hair and for several days keeps on attacking and killing the fungus that causes your dandruff and infections. One of the less well documented properties of Nizoral shampoo is its ability to fight baldness. In one small study, 2% ketoconazole was shown to be as effective as 2% minoxidil solution in promoting hair growth. It is assumed that ketoconazole works as an anti-androgen, reducing the dihydrotestosterone (DHT) levels in the scalp. It should be noted that sufficient clinical evidence does not exist to confirm such assumptions. F you are already using minoxidil then it may be of interest to know that a proportion of hair loss patients are experiencing itchiness and inflammations of their scalp caused by diverse minoxidil solutions and are relying on the Nizoral shampoo to help them fight these negative side effects, usually with very good rates of success. This enables them to continue with their hair loss treatment, avoiding scalp inflammations. Consumer reviews of the Nizoral [...]

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Thinning Of Hair

Thinning and Loss Of Hair While thinning of the hair is to be expected during cancer treatment as was my wife’s case, if you think your hair is thinning, not to the extent of bald patches appearing, it is important that you check that this is actually happening and not just normal shedding. It is normal to lose 50–100 hairs a day – which can be quite daunting when seen collectively on the comb or brush. It’s unusual, but sometimes when your down or depressed, the thinning of the hair can be in the mind, as a symptom of depression, just because of seeing more hairs than expected or normally paid attention to! Thinning of hair all over the scalp (rather than patchy baldness) can be due to various causes. In the case of mental or physical stress, it often occurs 2–3 months after the event. This is because at the time of the stress many follicles enter telogen (the resting phase) prematurely, and are then shed together at the end of telogen a few months later. In this situation, the hair loss usually recovers completely. Again, my wife was on anticancer drugs, blood thinning drugs (warfarin) and just a bit depressed with the whole experience – no surprise that her hair remains thin and now the doctor is treating her with shampoo at the moment to relieve possible eczema or psoriasis – and he hasn’t ruled out that her thyroid has been affected at some point in the treatment [...]

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