Chemical breakage is probably one of the most common reasons for women’s hair loss. This is what happens to your hair if you over use dye or bleach. This can cause severe breakage and it’s not something that any woman wants to have happen but unfortunately it does and sometimes it starts after the first time you use dye or after several years of repeated hair dying.
One of the major medical conditions that can cause hair loss is hypothyroidism which is a condition where your thyroid gland, located in your neck, slows down production or stops working altogether. The thyroid gland controls a release of hormones into your blood stream and without them you can experience hair loss, weight gain and usually a low body temperature or feeling the cold a lot.
One of the other common causes of hair loss is the use of certain chemotherapy drugs and this is why many cancer patients lose their hair. It’s commonly thought that one of the symptoms of cancer is hair loss but this isn’t the case – it’s the treatment for cancer, known as chemotherapy, which causes hair loss and this is simply because in order to wipe out cancer, you need a savage range of treatment which can affect other areas of your body, in this case, your hair.
Then of course, there’s the genetic side of things which may or may not be treatable. It depends on the condition; Genodermatosis for example, is a skin condition which can cause hair loss and it is a hereditary disease – there are treatment options available for this condition but not for all.
If you are at all worried about hair loss then you should contact your GP and make an appointment to have a full blood count done. This will usually flag any conditions and infections which could be causing it but it can also be something as simple as a poor diet so make sure that you talk to your GP.
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