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Scientists have estimated that a loss of up to 180 hairs per day is normal, but if you have the hair loss condition down the family line, you may lose much more than this amount. By the age of fifty, the first signs of baldness may appear on your head. In addition to heredity, other factors such as weather conditions, stress, or some serious illness may cause you to start losing hair.
If, over a period of one week, you notice a significant number of hairs on your pillow when waking up in the morning, this could be a symptom of progressing hair loss.
Hair thinning is another symptom at the onset of hair loss, with patients failing to notice that hair falls out. In more obvious cases, whole clumps of hair start separating. This type of hair loss is also known as shedding.
Typically, men who suffer from hereditary hair loss, tend to lose their hair at the front hairline and the forehead, as well as on top of the head. If the condition is left unattended, the only hair which remains undamaged is at the back, on both sides of the head, and around the ears. Hair loss can be a tough issue to live with because it changes your whole appearance. For this reason, consultation with a specialist should be sought upon the notice of the first symptoms of the condition.
Hair loss may be also caused by conditions such as trichotillomania: an impulse control disorder characterized by repeated urges to pull out the scalp`s hair, the eyelashes and eyebrows, the facial and nose hair, the pubic hair or other body hair, sometimes resulting in noticeable bald patches or alopecia areata. In this case, the immune system attacks hair follicles. The symptoms of the second condition are small bald patches, usually with a round shape, which may occur on the scalp and any other hairy part of the body.
Luckily, contemporary medicine has developed a rich array of hair loss treatments as well as prevention programs, including surgical and non-surgical hair replacement techniques.
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