Hair dye is used to color your hair. Hair relaxers are used to make your hair straight. Both hair dye and hair relaxers can hurt your skin, hair, and eyes, especially if you are not careful. Hair Dyes * There are different types of hair dyes used in salons and sold in stores. For example, [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
How do people inherit androgenetic alopecia?
The inheritance pattern of androgenetic alopecia is unclear because many genetic and environmental factors are likely to be involved. This condition tends to cluster in families, however, and having a close relative with patterned hair loss appears to be a risk factor for developing the condition. Source: the National Library of Medicine
What genes are related to androgenetic alopecia (hair loss)?
The AR gene is associated with androgenetic alopecia. A variety of genetic and environmental factors likely play a role in causing androgenetic alopecia. Although researchers are studying risk factors that may contribute to this condition, most of these factors remain unknown. Researchers have determined that this form of hair loss is related to hormones called [...]
How common is androgenetic alopecia?
Although androgenetic alopecia is a frequent cause of hair loss in both men and women, it is more common in men. This form of hair loss affects an estimated 35 million men in the United States. Androgenetic alopecia can start as early as a person’s teens and risk increases with age; more than 50 percent [...]
Who is at risk for experiencing hair loss after vaccination?
Specific risk factors are not known at this time. Studies found more women than men reporting the hair loss but there could be other reasons for this such as: 1) Men may not report hair loss as often as women because they typically wear their hair shorter, and hair loss may not be as noticeable [...]
What is androgenetic alopecia?
Androgenetic alopecia is a common form of hair loss in both men and women. In men, this condition is also known as male-pattern baldness. Hair is lost in a well-defined pattern, beginning above both temples. Over time, the hairline recedes to form a characteristic “M” shape. Hair also thins at the crown (near the top [...]
What are other possible causes of hair loss?
Hair loss can be caused by many things, including some medications, high fevers, hormonal changes, pregnancy, surgical shock, transplant surgery, poor diet (lacking in essential fatty acid, biotin, zinc, iron deficiency), anemia, aging, male pattern baldness, thyroid disease causing decreased thyroid levels (hypothyroidism), severe emotional stress, and autoimmune disease (disease that affects the body’s ability [...]
Can vaccines cause hair loss?
A recent study suggests that hair loss may occur in a few persons who have received vaccinations. This side effect, if confirmed by other studies, would be considered very rare. Other studies to further investigate these findings are underway. From 1983 to 1995, 60 reports of hair loss were identified and evaluated among persons who [...]
Health-Related Hair Loss
While hair loss is more harmful to the psyche than anything else, some of the causes of baldness may represent serious health problems. That’s why it’s important to talk about hair loss with a physician. One problem, says FDA’s Cook, could be a condition called alopecia areata. It’s an autoimmune disease of unknown cause in [...]
Hairpieces for Baldness – Toupees and Wigs
If you prefer to dodge the pain, time and cost of surgery, there’s always the old, reliable hairpiece. Obviously, all toupees and wigs are not created equal. Just as the transplant is only as good as the surgeon, the hairpiece is only as good as the person creating it and the materials used. There are [...]