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 Alopecia
In alopecia areata, the affected hair follicles are mistakenly attacked by a person's own immune system (white blood cells), resulting in the arrest of the hair growth stage. Alopecia areata usually starts with one or more small, round, smooth bald patches on the scalp and can progress to total scalp hair loss (alopecia totalis) or complete body hair loss (alopecia universalis).
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Chemotherapy hair loss
Chemotherapy drugs are powerful medications that attack rapidly growing cancer cells. Unfortunately, these drugs also attack other rapidly growing cells in your body - including those in your hair roots.
Chemotherapy may cause hair loss all over your body - not just on your scalp. Sometimes your eyelash, eyebrow, armpit, pubic and other body hair also fall out. Some chemotherapy drugs are more likely than others to cause hair loss, and different doses can cause anything from a mere thinning to complete baldness.
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Fine, limp, thinning hair
The reasons are highly individual, but can include any combination of the following:
Stress (emotional and physical)
Hormonal imbalance, specifically androgen sensitivity
Genetics
Immune system irregularities
Thyroid disorders
Nutritional deficiencies (especially iron or vitamin A)
Cosmetics (allergies and harsh treatments)
Radiation/chemotherapy
Dental treatment
Blood loss
Drugs
Disease
Surgery
Scarring
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Female Pattern Baldness
Female pattern baldness involves a typical pattern of loss of hair in women, caused by hormones, aging, and genetic predisposition
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Hormonal Hair Loss
Changes in hormones, thyroid levels, and pregnancy can all cause hair loss. If androgen/estrogen levels are out of balance, this can cause your hair to fall out. If your thyroid gland is over or under active, this can also cause hair loss. Proper medications can usually fix these problems.
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Menopausal Hair Loss
The precise cause of the hair loss is unclear, but it appears to be genetically determined in the majority of cases. The most common cause is an inherited alteration in the way individual hair follicles metabolize the sex hormone testosterone. Most women experiencing this type of hair loss actually have normal hormonal function including, normal testosterone levels, normal menstrual function, and fertility. Those affected are believed to experience a higher rate of conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone, or DHT. It is the effect of DHT on the hair follicles that is thought to be the mechanism responsible for the hair loss.
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Perm Damage Hair Loss
Getting your hair permed involves use of chemicals to break and reform the disulfide bonds of the hair. The hair is washed and wrapped on a perm rod and waving lotion is applied with a base. This solution creates a chemical action that softens the inner structure of the hair. It reacts with the keratin of the cortex, breaking some of the disulfide cross-links within and between the protein chains.??The hair swells and softens and stretches. The hair then molds around the shape of the perm rod. After a specified period of time, the hair is rinsed and a neutraliser is applied. It is the neutralizing solution that reforms the disulfide bonds of the hair and sets the new curls. Permanent wave solutions break the bonds that hold hair together and then reform them. But with a perm that is not diluted correctly or not rinsed off properly, for instance, those bonds may not re-form and the hair would soon fall out as a result.
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Radiation Hair Loss
Radiation only causes hair loss on the particular part of the body treated. If radiation is used to treat the breast, there is no hair loss on your head. But there might be loss of hair around the nipple, for women who have hair in that location. Radiation to the brain, used to treat metastatic cancer in the brain, usually causes complete hair loss on the head.
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Trichotillomania hair loss
Trichotillomania is a mental health problem in which the main symptom is a compulsion to pull out hair, resulting in noticeable hair loss. Individuals with this disorder usually pull out scalp hair through frequent twisting and tugging, but may also pull their eyebrows, eyelashes, or hair on other parts of their body. Trichotillomania often begins in childhood or adolescence. Some experts believe it may be a way of attracting attention or a response to stress or tension.
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Traction Hair Loss
Traction alopecia is a common cause of hair loss due to pulling forces exerted on the scalp hair. This excessive tension leads to breakage in the outermost hairs. This condition is seen in children and adults, but it most commonly affects African American women. The 2 types of traction alopecia are marginal and nonmarginal. Unlike trichotillomania, a psychiatric disorder of compulsive hair pulling that leads to patchy hair loss, traction alopecia is unintentionally induced by various hairstyling practices (eg, use of braids, hair rollers, weaves, twists, locks, or "cornrows"). In the initial stages, this hair loss is reversible. With prolonged traction, alopecia can be permanent.
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