The Mysteries of Female Hair Shedding
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Believe it or not, there are about 25 million American women who experience hair loss today. This might seem like a staggering figure but it’s true. Although not all of them are permanent or as severe as in men, this can be still quite disturbing. Imagine, you brush your hair like you used to, you notice numerous strands of hair in your brush, this is quite normal, but when you looked at the spot you just brushed, you see through your hair your scalp!
Shedding hair happens to all of us, but most of the time, our hair follicles replace this shed hair. For some women though, the shed hair is not replaced, thus resulting to a bald patch or a patch of scalp with very thin hair growth. Usually, this is of no major health concern, mostly; it is the social, emotional and psychological aspects that get battered.
Women shed hair for a number of reasons. With men, it is thought of that genetics plays a big part, but for women, hair shedding is usually attributed to metabolic problems that are usually temporary. Examples of this are pregnancy, extreme dieting and anorexia, hormone deficiency , undergoing major surgery, illnesses or ailments, taking of medication, undergoing chemotherapy and so on.
But like men, women do experience pattern baldness as well. It is rare though that a women would go totally bald. Usually when a woman ages, at around her menopausal stage, she will soon shed hair. This is due to her hormones being unbalance.
Leave a Comment