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Sudden hair loss diagnosis
2007-06-21 12:48:00
Diagnosis of diseases that cause hair loss depends on which of the various types of hair loss diseases you are suffering from. When a patient with a specific hair condition enters a clinic the first duty of the dermatologist is to diagnose his hair loss disease, spot which type of hair loss diseases he is suffering from, and then prescribe treatments or hair care remedies. The most common method for sudden hair loss diagnosis involves information gathering through questioning. Apart from questioning, use of diagnostic techniques like a hair pluck test can also help to identify diseases that cause hair loss. Diagnosis of hair loss diseases through questioning The first stage of diagnosis involves the process of deciding whether the diseases that cause hair loss are congenital, hair loss seems congenital then the dermatologist may ask a few questions related to the patient’s family back ground. For example; the dermatologist may ask whether other members of the family have similar h...
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Tips on hair loss control?
2007-06-18 12:16:00
Menopause is a hard time in almost every woman’s life. Not only it takes its toll on the physical health of a women, she also suffers emotionally due to the aggressive hormonal changes taking place in her body. Out of the many causes of sudden hair loss in women, menopause is the major cause for hair shedding in pre and post menopausal women. Since one cannot reverse the hair loss, I would advice every woman to take natural vitamin supplements and vitamins in large amount. This way you can help your hair follicles to have maximum nutrition and you don’t shed your hair for starving them of vital growth factors. The antioxidant activity of these vitamin supplements also help to large extent in reducing the levels of free radicals. The free radicals produced in our body as a result of day-to-day metabolism. Normally, the body is able to handle free radicals, but if antioxidants are unavailable, the free-radical production becomes excessive; and some damage is likely to occur. The d...
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Hair Diseases
2007-06-15 06:41:00
Hair diseases may not appear to be shocking, as they do not pose any health problem.  But make no mistake dude, it is quite a problem. If you have it in a serious way (LOL). When you will find your silky hair is fast turning into Sahara desert, you start losing your sleep over it, right dude? And then you consult a doctor for sudden hair loss diagnosis. That diagnosis depends on the type of your hair loss. You know, there are innumerable hair diseases types and subtypes. But in practice you will find only around 20 hair diseases. And again, of that around 20 diseases you will find only four accounts for 95 per cent hair diseases problems - pattern baldness, telogen effluvium, chemical overprocessing, and alopecia areata.
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Types of Hair Loss Diseases
2007-06-13 07:25:00
Some of the infectious diseases that cause hair loss are Tinea Capitis, Sebohorreic Dermatitis and Folliculitis. Scalp infections and infestations are very common among the various Types of Hair Loss Diseases . Common infectious hair diseases are the results of fungus, bacteria, viruses or parasites.  
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Cures for Telogen Effluvium
2007-06-12 09:02:00
This is something strange you know? Telogen effluvium is one of the most crucial alopecia causes. But it is a poorly defined condition. Because enough research has not been done to understand this major hair disease. In this problem you will have abnormal hair loss, as there will be alteration of normal hair growth cycle. If the problem is chronic, then other hair bearing areas of the body like eyebrows and pubic hair will get affected. Anyways, one rare thing is that telogen effluvium is fully reversible, because hair follicles are not permanently affected. The causes for Telogen Effluvium are both temporary and persistent. In temporary causes there is hair regrowth after a short period of time. In persistent causes the hair loss continues. The cures for telogen effluvium depend on the causal factors. Suppose, if the reason is telogen effluvium then you have to sit tight and wait for the follicles to recover of their own accord. But if it is stress, then stress reduction is the med...
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Hair Diseases and Hair Loss
2007-06-08 06:27:00
You know, every second person you will meet is suffering from hair diseases and hair loss. That’s my personal experience. The length of the problem may vary. That’s it. And man! What a great varieties of problems are there. And some of them are so odd. Take the case of Trichotillomania. It is really a weird one. In this disease you will suffer from repeated urge to pull out hair fibers mainly from the scalp. You may also focus on pulling eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, nose, pubic or other body hair. And it is very natural that the pulling of scalp hair will lead to bald patches. And you know something? After finding the bald area you will have more urge pull the hair around it and make the patch larger. Anxiety disorders or mood problems are the causes of Trichotillomania.
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Effective Hair Loss Solutions
2007-06-07 15:07:00
The sudden hair loss diseases are really nuisance in social life. Yes, I mean it. Just think of it. All of a sudden you find that you have started looking like your elderly uncle, and then like your grandfather.   However, now there are various effective hair loss solutions. One advanced option is hair transplantation. And of course you have all the traditional methods like herbal supplements. Now it is your choice (which depends on your pocket, LOL).
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The Folliculitis Causes
2007-06-06 06:59:00
Ever heard of folliculitis? It is the inflammation of hair follicles, caused by several factors. The folliculitis causes are of two types - infectious folliculitis and non-infectious folliculitis. The first one is more common than the latter. You will get it from hair damage caused by friction from clothing, shaving, physical injury etc. The infections one you will get when oils and greases applied to the skin clog up the hair follicles and lead to non-infectious folliculitis. Talking of sudden hair loss, one healing method that I found interesting is traction alopecia treatment. It is a simple treatment if you apply it in the early ages. For example, you can just change your hairstyle putting excessive strain on your roots.  

Cause of Trichotillomania
2007-06-04 06:51:00
Trichotillomania is a peculiar hair loss disease. You will never find another cause of hair loss as odd as Trichotillomania. In this disease you will have a peculiar urge to pull out your hair fibers mainly from the scalp, and also from eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, nose, pubic or other body hair. And the pulling of scalp hair will cause bald patches. And what is scarier is that after there is a bald area, you will have a greater urge to pull the hair around it and make the bald larger. The normal causes of Trichotillomania are anxiety disorders or mood problems. It is considered to be a neurobiological condition. And you know something interesting? This hair pulling disorder is also found among mice and cockatoos. Mice under stress pull out each others’ hair, while unhappy cockatoos may pluck out their own feathers.
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Cure for Traction Alopecia
2007-05-25 13:59:00
Traction alopecia is caused by chronic traction (pulling) on the hair follicle. Traction alopecia mostly occurs in African-American women and men who braid their hair too tightly. It is also common in other ethnic groups known for traditional hair styles that involve pulling the hair. There is also seen a pronounced traction alopecia in the beard area of this Sikh man. The Sikh men do not cut scalp or beard hair. The beard hairs are pulled straight and then twisted and tightly knotted. Daily knotting often results in this form of traction alopecia. Men who attach hairpieces to their existing hair also suffer from this type of hair loss. The traction alopecia in such cases can also lead to permanent hair loss if the hairpiece is attached in the same location over a long period of time. If we put the examples from ethnic groups aside, traction alopecia occurs most often in pre-teenagers, teenagers, young adults then it does in older men and women. It is a very unfortunate state that ...
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Treatment for Seborrheic Dermatitis
2007-05-04 08:37:00
The heavy sounding Seborrheic dermatitis is simply dandruff for most of the people who get it. However, in its severe and chronic form, this chronic inflammatory skin disorder can cause scaly, oily patches to crop up without notice. Seborrheic dermatitis is first and foremost a skin condition, but it can also involve temporary hair loss if the dermatitis is located on the scalp or other terminal-haired skin areas. The disease has much to do with the sebaceous glands. This connection is evident by the reason that chronic inflammatory skin disorder is generally confined to areas of the head and trunk where sebaceous glands are most prominent. The disease occurs as a result of an overproduction of sebum, the oil produced by sebaceous glands. This area is then overridden by yeast causing a chronic infection scaling with the redness. The hair follicles in the vicinity of the inflammatory cells are adversely affected because of the unhealthy environment surrounding them. Thus seborrheic d...
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Hidden Causes of Hair Loss
2007-04-20 07:29:00
Female pattern baldness is one of the ordinary causes of hair loss in women. It results from various factors, with the chief factor being the production of androgen tic hormones and its effect on hair follicles. In case you want to know additional information, then I can suggest this site www.hairdiseases.com. The disease causes different hair loss patterns in different women. Some women experience hair thinning on the top of the scalp. While you will find several other women experiencing thinning of hair and patches of greater scalp hair loss. And there may be women experiencing hair loss from the front of the scalp to mid-scalp. Female pattern baldness may be a general hair loss problem for the women, but not the only one. There are additional factors causing sudden hair loss or localized hair loss among women. The various causes of sudden hair loss include problems like alopecia areata, traction alopecia, Trichotillomania, telogen effluvium, etc. I will request you to visit www.f...
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Figure out the causes of hair loss in women
2007-04-12 08:24:00
Hair loss for women and men is always a reason for worry; nevertheless it becomes more shocking when the causes of hair loss are not identified. Clinical dermatologists make their diagnosis out of some 18 different hair loss diseases. Some common diseases that dermatologists are likely to see are androgenetic alopecia, alopecia areata, telogen effluvium, trichotillomania, alopecia aerata, cicatricial alopecia, hair shaft defects from cosmetic processing and excess hair growth (hirsutism or hypertrichosis). Most hair diseases are very rare and affect less than 1% of the population. However, because of the decrement in research of hair diseases sometimes it becomes very difficult to make a specific diagnosis. Very few diagnostic tests or treatments available, particularly for diseases that cause hair loss other than those listed above. Generally a dermatologist has a choice to three main methods of information gathering. The first one is to know about the hair loss history and lifes...
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