It is common and even accepted for men to be bald. Although it is accepted it does not stop some men feeling embarrassed about their baldness and start looking for a way how to prevent hair loss. So can you imagine how it must be for a woman as their hair is one of the main areas that makes a woman feel attractive, and when it starts to fall out confidence can go with it too.
As a female, if your hair does start to have bald patches in it you should just quickly check a couple of things before coming to the overall conclusion that your hair is actually thinning. You should take time out and think about lifestyle really, are you stressed or is your diet poor? What about your hairstyle have you been wearing a style that pulls on your hair or getting lots of colors done? Although things like this may not seem relevant, they are and can have an effect on your hair.
Of course, these things may not apply to you, so in that case there could be something hormonal happening within your body as hormones have a huge effect on many things within the body and one of them being hair.
Following are some of the common things that can happen to a woman to adjust hormones and interfere with the hair growth.
One of the first areas to look at is if you are going through the menopause. If you are then there is a high probability that your hormone production is slowing down. Women who are post menopausal and also have bald patches is probably higher than you would imagine, in fact it can occur in up to 2/3rds of the women in that group. The most common way of treating this slow down is with HRT and following is a little explanation of the hormones which slow down, and why it can cause hair loss:-
Basically, before menopause a women will produce both estrogen and testosterone hormones. But the estrogen will not allow testosterone to be converted and move around the body as it acts in a way like a barrier. When the menopause starts, the production of estrogen diminishes and this can allow testosterone to have a bit more of a free reign. This in turn can turn into DHT which is a high amount of testosterone and if there are areas of the scalp sensitive to this then this can lead to hair loss.
If a woman is unfortunate enough to have to undergo a hysterectomy, then this too can be a bit like going through the menopause as again there is really little or no estrogen being produced, and this too is going to lead to a higher probability of hair loss.
The third thing that can really mess around with a womans hormones and change the structure of their hair is pregnancy. When a woman becomes pregnant there are huge amounts of changes that start to occur within the body as you can probably well imagine. During the pregnancy thick hair can thin and thin hair can thicken, straight hair can become curly and vice versa. This is down to the massive hormone changes which take place within a woman when they are pregnant, and for some women after having a child, their hair is never the same again.
These just cover some of the hormonal changes, however if you feel that none of this is applicable to you then, remember to have a little think about stress, hairstyle and food as well. In particular if you feel as if your diet is letting you down then you may want to consider taking some vitamins for good hair growth.
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