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Women's Health News Wednesday: Forehead Balding and The Use of PRP

With women hair loss can be one of the most distressing symptoms we can have. When tracking causes and coming up with cures we look to the where and how much of hair loss and any associated symptoms. To regrow hair the follicles have to be healthy and regenerated and the best new treatment for this is the use of PRP therapy. And PRP therapy will work better if you also have your health care provide r evaluate the underlying cause.  If you are tired, maybe it is a thyroid condition. If your forehead is balding you may actually have a hormone disorder than can be diagnosed and tracked. Newly they are calling this Female pattern hair loss (FPHL) and female androgenetic alopecia are two terms that are very much related. They are commonly synonyms to refer to women with progressive thinning of scalp hair that follows a pattern distribution. Patients with the androgenic hormonal balding may have either excess male hormones, or at least excess male hormones relative to female hormo...

Hair Greying and Hair Loss Solutions

P Often the tugging of drying and styling will pull hairs loose. Tight bathing caps, chlorine, and sun can also cause small amounts of hair loss. None of these things should cause grey hair, and yet when you are loosing too much hair, having an unusual amount of hair breakage, and having hair loss, it's time to check with your gyno. We look to levels of micronutrients, especially iron and iron stores as a possible cause of hair problems like these. Though this can cause hair loss, there may be more to it with the grey hair.  Scientists think they have uncovered the gene that controls when hair goes grey. Greying of hair may be isolated from hair loss, but some things like stress and toxin exposure may cause both. Women lose their hair over the top and at the temples, they do not generally go bald, but their hair thins and when this occurs it occurs in a postmenopausal woman. Generally being healthy correlates with having healthy hair, if you are suddenly losing hair, consider being...