Hair is made up of a type of protein called keratin.
A single hair consists of a shaft, a root below the skin, and a follicle, from which the hair root grows.
Hair grows in cycles - it grows, rest, and then falls out where it repeats approximately yearly.
Ninety percent of a person's scalp hair is growing phase that lasts between two and six years and the remaining ten percent is in a resting phase that lasts between two and three months.
After this resting stage, the hair goes through a shedding of 50 to 100 hairs a day is normal.
Normally 50 percent of the population experience loss by the time they reach 50 but abnormal hair loss can be due to many reasons.
A number of abnormal causes of loss include: Childbirth High fever Severe infection Major surgery Significant life stressor Thyroid disease Inadequate protein in diet Medications Cancer treatment drugs Birth control pills Low serum iron Alopecia areata Androgenic alopecia Infections Good or bad hair loss leads to baldness both in men and women.
Baldness is defined as that state of having no hair on the part where it often grows i.
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, the head.
Baldness pattern in men is called "androgenic alopecia" and is characterized by hair receding from the lateral sides of the forehead whereas in female pattern alopecia, the frontal hairline is preserved while the density of the hair is decreased on all areas of the scalp.
Symptoms of loss that affects both men and women are; Lack of hair on top of persons head or baldness Thinning of the entire head of hair A huge amount of breakage Constantly shedding of hair To prevent the cause of hair loss and balding exercise and proper diet are the two important things that we should consider.
Drugs and supplements taken for hair growth should be avoided.
Above all these, stress free life is too much necessary.
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