Although more likely found in men, female hair loss is quite a common problem too, and if hair loss for men can cause self consciousness you can multiply that a 100 times when it come to thinning hair in women. So what is behind it and what can be done about it?
The technical term for female hair loss is androgenetic alopecia and figures for women suffering from this are surprisingly high with approximately one in four women suffering from this in one form or another.If you learn a little more about your hair cycle then you will start to have a better idea to answer your question are you actually going bald?
The hair grows in cycles and it works out that at ninety percent of the hair is growing and ten percent is in the resting phase at any one time, during the resting phase it is perfectly normal for you to shed hair. There is one thing you can do to determine if you are losing more hair than is necessary and that is the tug test where you grab about twenty strands of hair between thumb and forefinger and pull them slowly but firmly. If you pull out six or more then you may be suffering from hair loss.
Why do women lose hair? There are a lot of reasons why women can lose their hair. Some are obvious like general poor health, bad diet or stress – but by far and away the biggest factor is likely to be hormonal.There is a hormone called DHT which is thought to be responsible for hair loss. DHT is caused by an excess of testosterone in the body, for men this is a natural occurrence but for women it is a cause of unbalance. The unbalance occurs because normally the estrogen in a woman controls testosterone but if a woman has just had a child or is menopausal then the estrogen level will be low and this can result in DHT and hair loss.
So can anything be done to prevent it? Well there are options out there such as prescription drugs and hair transplants, but more and more people are wanting to look at natural and effective remedies to help control their hair loss.
