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Hair Loss Success Story

ths-admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:22:15 +0000

LEARN HOW TO REGROW YOUR HAIR NATURALLY! [ad#Ad-plus-sense] Melanie’s hair loss problem started when she was was seven years old and her mom was brushing her hair – and found a small, perfectly round bald patch at the nape of her neck. The patch eventually filled in with new hair, but soon another patch appeared and at times she had two or three bald patches at once. Although they were well hidden beneath her longer layers of hair, just knowing they were there made her feel really uncomfortable. Her parents took her from doctor to doctor. At the time, they could give her no known cause or cure for the mysterious, but common hair follicle disorder called alopecia areata. She had to learn to live with it – until many years later. By the time she reached age 32 her hair started falling out by the handfuls and this time it wasn’t stopping. At first she thought her hair loss was a severe case of the alopecia areata she had been suffering with. Many years later she learnt she was experiencing a second type of hair loss called telogen effluvium. (Women can experience more than one form of hair loss simultaneously with one type opening the way for another type!) Otherwise healthy, the advise was to get a good wig and get on with life. Naturally being unhappy with the whole situation she just wanted to be her natural self and without hair that seemed impossible. Melanie eventually resigned herself [...]

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Women’s Hair Loss

ths-admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:21:18 +0000

Patterns of Hair Loss [ad#Ad-plus-sense]One of the commonest forms of hair loss in women (and men) is a condition called telogen effluvium, in which there is a diffuse (or widely spread out) shedding of hairs around the scalp and elsewhere on the body. This is usually a reaction to intense stress on the body’s physical or hormonal systems, or as a reaction to medication. The condition, which can occur at any age, generally begins fairly suddenly and gets better on its own within about six months, although for a few people it can become a chronic problem. Because telogen effluvium develops a while after its trigger, and causes generalised thinning of hair density rather than a bald patch, women with the condition can easily be diagnosed as overanxious or neurotic. Fortunately, it often gets better with time. Telogen effluvium is a phenomenon related to the growth cycles of hair. Hair growth cycles alternate between a growth phase (called anagen, it lasts about three years) and a resting phase (telogen, which lasts about three months). During telogen, the hair remains in the follicle until it is pushed out by the growth of a new hair in the anagen phase. At any one time, up to about 15 per cent of hairs are in telogen. But a sudden stress on the body can trigger large numbers of hairs to enter the telogen phase at the same time. Then, about three months later, this large number of hairs will be shed. As the [...]

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