Types of alopecia and useful recommendations

Alopecia is a type of hair loss in patches. But not all alopecia are the same ...

Research has identified three types of triggers, genetic, immunological and psychological stress or traumatic events.

We can distinguish:

Alopecia areata: Identify causes of hair loss in severely limited and uneven. The cause, in most cases, is psychological. Often, the causes of the fall are the psychological and if untreated can lead to total baldness.

Androgenetic Alopecia: The birth of genetic and hormonal factors, is the most difficult to eliminate. Unlike previous starts very slowly, the hair weak and difficult to comb and then begin to fall. The hair bulb atrophies completely and thus the hair loss and is not replaced by new hairs.

Scarring alopecia: This is caused by the destruction of the hair bulb, in connection with the atrophy of the follicles in the vicinity. The causes can be attributed to disease, trauma and genetic predisposition. This type of alopecia causes irreversible progress.

Treatments?
The most recommended is (obviously with a prescription): Minoxidil 5%, valid for the regrowth of hair, if hair follicles are still active and equally effective when added to retinoic acid, a compound of vitamin A; finasteride that blocks Hair fall bulbs.

Synthetic hair implants for baldness

Implants biofibras against baldness.
The best method is the non-surgical implant biofibra, which is a synthetic hair that has practically no rejection reactions, and it seems natural in terms of texture and color. He was implanted under local anesthesia through a device that is inoculated with a number of hairs in the designated area.

The patient leaves the clinic with their hair in place and without any mark. This implant is not suitable for the person who is totally bald, but ideal for showing areas where hair becomes scarce.
Time to see the effects: immediate.

The eternal enigma of baldness

God made a few perfect heads, and the rest, covered with hair. "This sentence, as it can be assumed, was pronounced by a famous bald, and that is that for a long time the irony-o-hair transplants were the only defenses hair loss in men who have counted.

More and more men, by resignation or by aesthetics, opt for the shaved head as the best solution. But this need not be so. "Hair loss is defined by three major characteristics," reported in Vichy Laboratories: "genetics, sex-linked linked to the place."

By sex-linked must understand the inflow of male hormones (testosterone) that tends to stunt the hair follicle by the effect of the enzyme 5-alpha reductase, testosterone is converted into dihydrotestosterone
Until the hair-growing of the future, there are treatments that allow delay or halt the fall in a significant number of cases: the finasteride (marketed under the name Propecia), Anti-first medicine that is taken orally, which acts by inhibiting action of DHT, the minoxidil, for topical use, which increases the hairiness, but does not produce the same results in all users; and Aminexil, Vichy Laboratories, which is absorbed by the roots of the hair and prevents collagen rigidificación that surrounds it, thereby contributing to its subject.

Some lies about baldness

There are many good tips that we have all heard that one again. Most of them have no medical basis and may even harm.

• The need more power baldies
sexual. And sexuality alopecia have nothing to do. The presence of a different potential of male hormones in the blood is not tantamount to being a master in the arts amatorias.

• Wash your hair every day is unhealthy.
The frequency with which he washes his hair in his downfall does not influence abnormal. On the contrary, specialists warn that it is better to avoid excess fat.

• The hair falls over in Autumn. The hair is not a plant. Therefore, it is not influenced by seasonal changes.

• Cut the tips of the hair makes it grow faster. Another falsehood.
Always grows at the same speed: one centimeter per month, more or less. Cut it often does not accelerate the pace of growth.

• Vitamins are conducive to the strengthening of hair.
Although the intake of vitamins in their correct proportions acts as a system of prevention, there is no direct relationship between consumption of vitamin supplements and additional parking brake hair.

When is unrecoverable the fall of hair?

Head to the eternal question. ¿Grow hair under the effect of specific treatments? It all depends on whether it is a cicatricial alopecia (which leaves scar). If so, your hair will not grow. Otherwise, it can be reborn.

The results obtained with capillary cosmetics will be effective provided that they are cases in which
Growth is recoverable and that the therapy was continued without interruption for months and even years.

It is appropriate that the dermatologist find out the causes and advise the most appropriate treatment. In common baldness, the only effective way to recover and permanent hair where there is no longer going through the operating room for an autotransplant.

A costly and laborious operation that takes us back youth and power that our society attaches to the heads populated.

Alopecia cure?

Until recently, anti-baldness remedies wore the label of magical elixir. At present, circulating in the market thousands of potingues manufactured with all sorts of substances, placentas, plants, algae and hundreds of formulas in the miraculous converted potion that promise eternal hair.

One of these products is Viviscal, a compound of extracts of marine origin with "proteins, mucopolysaccharides cartilaginous fish, minerals and amino acids briquettes" according to its prospectus says.

Another was Capivax, a Chinese cure of plant origin. Their effectiveness is yet to prove. Even the modern-drug treatments mainly based on the administration of minoxidil-only produce a growth of hair on, and not all patients.

And within the world of cosmetics, large firms have shampoos and treatments to combat the fall. One of the last preparations in the market is the Aminexil, a molecule antifibrosis related minoxidil, or that firms like Kérastase Vichy (L'Oreal) are already marketed.

For some specialists, however, the best solution is prevention. And a key factor is food. There are substances such as vitamins and trace elements in group B that are necessary for development, formation and growth of hair. The low consumption of oats, barley or wheat conducive to its downfall. And the snuff and alcohol are triggers for a loss of these substances which, if not replace, weaken the hair.

Maintaining a diet rich in vitamin A, B complex, proteins and carbohydrates can help delay the alopecia, and, in the same way, frequent massages and heat promote the reduction of the fall, and that increases vasodilation and metabolic activity.

Bad habits for the scalp

Habits
Another danger to the scalp are the unfortunate habits to which many are accustomed, such as lack of demand when choosing a shampoo, and excessive exposure to sun without protection or the indiscriminate use of permanent dyes and discoloration. All this involves an increased sensitivity capillary.

Imperceptibly, the hair is fragile, it breaks, and in the worst case, eventually fall. A final enemy of our hair hygiene is wrong. An excessively oily hair causes a flaking on the skin of the scalp (dandruff seborrheic).

Alopecia and fat are two concurrent phenomena, but one does not directly produce the other. The third major type of hair loss is alopecia areata, in which the hair falls plates. Caroline of Monaco has been a victim of this problem. Can be regarded as a dermatological disease.

In immunologically, alopecia areata occurs when the follicles stop working and, consequently, the hair falls partly or wholly. Can be given the circumstance, even to collapse the five million follicles from the human body. In this case there is a general alopecia, ie the total collapse of hair and hair of the human body. When that happens, it is indispensable tackling the problem in depth.

How to prevent hair loss

The hair loss, baldness in popular language, has always been one of the biggest obsessions of mankind. Despite the fashion of the rapados, loss of hair causes more of a complex poorly carried in men and in women.

What is alopecia? A natural process, neither more nor less. The life cycle of a human hair ranges from two to three years. While some fall, others growing up, being the normal daily loss of around a hundred hairs, which are in the sink after hairstyles, in the shoulder by the American, in the sheets ...

Over the years, however, the hair falls and loses vitality diffuse slowly and relentlessly. And, worse, do not regenerate. We talked about the common or androgenetic alopecia, which in Spain affects more than eight million people, mostly male, although women not escape its effects.

The alopecia is a common hormonal problem that manifests itself in men from puberty, and women, in different periods of his life (puberty, menopause, childbirth ...). Androgens (male hormo-nas) are the major culprits of this hair loss.

That does not mean that a large number of these hormones, like testosterone, leading to baldness, but the cells of the scalp are overly sensitive to them. This causes the atrophy of the hair follicle (root) and fall short of hair affected.

However, hereditary factors also influence. Although the exact mode of transmission is still a mystery, one can say with little margin for error, that "parents bald, bald children" The androgenetic is the most widespread type of baldness, but not the only one.

Other arrangements are telógenos of tenacity and alopecia areata. Telógenos known tenacity for the temporary fall of the hair, which responds to different causes. So, a lot of cases of this kind of disruption due to psychological problems.

In this sense, a situation of prolonged stress or neural disorder may experience problems with the cabello.Y also adversely affect some drugs (contraceptive products or chemotherapy), certain prevalent diseases (diabetes, abnormal thyroid), postoperative or diets low in protein.

That produces hair loss?

Why we still CALVO?
• Heritage family ( "father of bald, bald children").
• Sensitivity excessive hair follicles to androgens (male hormones).
• protracted situations of stress or nervous tension.
• Some general diseases such as diabetes, disorders of the thyroid.
• postoperative period.
• immunological diseases (in the case of alopecia areata).

THE ENEMY OF OUR HAIR
• The sun and UVA rays.
• atmospheric phenomena: the environmental humidity and wind.
• color often discolor and make permanent.
• Diets decompensated.
• The violent unravel.
• The glue to make queues.
• Some medications (contraceptives, anti ...).