Scalp renewal involves a maximum daily hair loss of 100 hairs, which is not a pathology but a normal phenomenon in every human being. In any case, many people consult a dermatologist when hair loss is prolonged over weeks and months, causing loss of hair volume.
Female Alopecia: Causes and Treatment
What are the causes?
- Thyroid gland abnormalities: Thyroid gland abnormalities are very common. The most common is Hypothyroidism, which means that the gland does not work enough.
- Postpartum, 3-4 months after childbirth.
- Stress. It manifests with hair loss all over the scalp or in the form of bald patches (alopecia areata).
- Sudden loss of body weight, eating disorders (anorexia-bulimia) or poor nutrition in general.
- Surgical intervention or serious infection (detected 3-4 months after the intervention/infection)
- Hormonal drop (estrogens) in menopause: weakening and lower hair density.
- Female androgenetic alopecia due to heredity. It is rare
How to treat it?
- Correct lack of iron, vitamins or deficiencies after a blood test.
- Oral nutritional hair treatments
- Hair lotions composed of different ingredients to reinforce the blood circulation of the hair, reduce greasiness
- hair, reduce grease, desquamation.
Male Alopecia: Causes and Treatment
What are the causes?
- Nerves, anxiety or other disorder (surgery, accident, etc). Global hair loss or hair loss in specific areas (alopecia areata) at all ages.
- Androgenetic alopecia (hereditary + hormonal factors). This is the most common type of hair loss in men between 20 and 30 years of age.
How to treat it?
- Oral nutritional hair treatments
- Hair lotions
- Finasteride 1mg: Unique active ingredient for male androgenetic alopecia. It acts at an enzymatic-hormonal level. Indicated for men under 41 years of age who are losing their hair. Stops hair loss and improves the thickness of existing hair. It should be taken daily continuously for years.
- Side effects: decreased sexual desire at the beginning of treatment (1.8%), reversible after stopping treatment.
What is hair transplantation?
Hair transplantation or hair implantation is a minor surgical procedure that has been used for more than 25 years with very satisfactory results.
In essence, it consists of transferring hair roots from one part of the scalp to another that has lost its hair root permanently, generally due to hereditary causes, stress or some kind of accident. The root implanted in a new place grows in the same way as in the place of its extraction.
Who are candidates for a hair transplant?
Candidates for a hair transplant are all those people, men or women, who have lost hair in a part of their scalp (either in the front part of the scalp, in the crown or in some other location) and that after treatments based on lotions, vitamins or some other medical treatment are not able to recover it. When the person is not satisfied with keeping their hair, but wants to have more, hair transplantation is the appropriate treatment.
In hair transplantation, a limited amount of roots are extracted, usually approximately 2,000 to 3,000 hairs (the maximum that can be performed in a single intervention) and these roots are transferred to the place we want to cover or repopulate. Naturally the ideal candidate is a person who has very little bald area and therefore a lot of hair on the rest of the head. The more hair the person has lost, the more difficult it is to obtain an excellent result.