How to Deal With Baldness in Women

Men and women can experience hair loss or thinning locks at any age. Hair loss, which some people call balding, can be a product of conditions such as alopecia to treatments for cancer or even just age. For women, hair loss may be especially distressing since many people associate beauty with hair. If you’ve experienced or are experiencing hair loss, coping with your baldness may be stressful. But with confidence and a little work, you can successfully deal with baldness and stimulate hair growth if possible.

Identifying Causes of Hair Loss

1. Look into genetic factors

Hair loss (known as alopecia) can be based on genetic factors (male-pattern baldness and female-pattern baldness). These are both known as androgenic alopecia because both are dependent on levels of the hormone androgen, which is responsible for hair on the scalp, face, chest, underarms, and genital regions.

10 Things You Didn't Know About Alopecia

It's like something out of a bad dream. You step out of the shower, dry your hair, and are startled to discover a glaring patch of baldness on the back or side of your scalp. For the 6.6 million Americans suffering from alopecia areata, this bad dream could become their reality at any time.

Your 4 Biggest Hair Mistakes - And How To Fix Them

You crunch, blow, and curl it every day to make it look great, but all that handling could be sending your hair down the drain—literally. Forty-one percent of women say they experience hair breakage on a daily basis. And some hair styling faux pas can actually cause hair to come out by the roots. Here's how to protect your tresses from hair styling mistakes of the "too much" variety: too tight, too often, or too hot. (The Power Nutrient Solution is the first-ever plan that tackles the root cause of virtually every major ailment and health condition today.)

Hair Loss : Treatments and Drugs

    Effective treatments for some types of hair loss are available. But some hair loss is permanent. With some conditions, such as patchy alopecia, hair may regrow without treatment within a year.

Treatments for hair loss include medications, surgery, laser therapy, and wigs or hairpieces. Your doctor may suggest a combination of these approaches in order to get the best results.

The goals of treatment are to promote hair growth, slow hair loss or hide hair loss.

Women's Hair Loss

Introduction

    Mistakenly thought to be a strictly male disease, women actually make up forty percent of American hair loss sufferers. Hair loss in women can be absolutely devastating for the sufferer's self image and emotional well being.

Types of Hair Loss

    The word "alopecia" is the medical term for hair loss. Alopecia does not refer to one specific hair loss disease -- any form of hair loss is an alopecia. The word alopecia is Latin, but can be traced to the Greek "alopekia," which itself comes from alopek, meaning "fox." Literally translated, the word alopecia (alopekia) is the term for mange in foxes.

Male-Pattern Baldness, Female-Pattern Baldness?

    This type of alopecia is often attributed to genetic predisposition and family history. Androgenic alopecia is seen in both men and women. The hair loss in men is often faster, earlier onset, and more extensive.