Female Hair Loss
Seventy-five percent of hair loss cases are due to hereditary factors, but there are other causes, such as malnutrition, traumatic stress, hormone imbalances, autoimmune and thyroid disorders, post-pregnancy changes, or chemotherapy.
Proper hair care can help women improve their appearance after hair loss. Keep hair short and conceal thin spots with a layered cut. Use a natural bristle brush. Avoid using chemical treatments on hair like dyes, tints, bleaches, straighteners, and permanent waves.
Propecia, a drug used to treat male hair loss, may help fix women's hair loss when taken with birth control pills, a new study shows.
A study of 37 premenopausal women with female-pattern hair loss (thinning hair) who took Propecia and birth control pills for a year. Hair loss improved for most women, mainly with "slight" or "moderate" gains, the researchers write.
Sometimes hair loss is just that: hair loss. But other times it can be a symptom of a more serious medical problem, according to Reed. Hyper or hypothyroidism, anemia, polycystic ovary syndrome, HIV/AIDS and lupus are all conditions that can result in women losing their hair.
Remember that hair loss is common in women and there are ways of improving it. You might be surprised by how many women you see everyday who are hiding their hair loss by clever styling or covering it up!
When it comes to female hair loss, the primary issue is that women feel that they are all alone, that no one else is suffering from the condition when, in fact, it is a very common affliction among all women, with more than twenty million affected by various kinds of hair loss in the United States alone.