Hair falls out a lot. What to do?

Beautiful hair is the subject of dreams and pride for all women. If you can create a stylish look with the help of cosmetics, fashionable clothes and shoes, then healthy curls are the result of daily care and taking care of them. Unfortunately, more and more women are forced to turn to specialists with a complaint of severe hair loss. Let's figure out what can provoke the problem and how to deal with it effectively.

Causes of Severe Hair Loss in Women

The norm is considered to be a daily loss of 50 to 100 hairs. This is how renewal occurs when new, strong hair replaces the old one that has lost its strength. Under the influence of negative factors, the process often becomes uncontrollable, then the success of treatment depends on a timely visit to a specialist who will prescribe appropriate examinations to identify the cause of hair loss. The reasons for the loss of curls in women are quite varied.

1. Hormonal disbalanceprovoked by puberty, pregnancy or the postpartum period, menopause.

2. The negative effects of drugs and procedures.

3. Stressful situations, lack of sleep, depression.

4. Regular exposure of the hair to high temperatures, as well as hypothermia.

5. Avitaminosis, especially pronounced in the spring.

6. Abundant blood loss (surgery, profuse menstruation).

7. Health problems - infectious disease or chronic pathology.

8. The consequences of an injury or surgery.

9. Unbalanced diet, this applies to women adhering to a strict diet.

10. Lack of vitamins and minerals in organism.

Note: according to experts, today the greatest danger for lush curls is not internal reasons, but external ones, first of all, a careless attitude to hair - weaving African braids, curling, tight tails, curling extension. Abundant hair loss is a reason to immediately consult a trichologist.

Hair loss: how to treat it?

The problem of hair loss affects every third woman in the world, both specialists and patients are concerned about the search for an effective treatment for the disease. First of all, you need to eliminate the cause of the pathology. To do this, it is enough to establish nutrition, daily regimen, and eliminate a stressful situation. In some situations, more serious help to the body will be required.

Note: Remember that hair is an indicator of your health. Loss of curls is often a symptom of the development of a pathological process, even if its obvious symptoms do not appear.

Ten rules for effective hair loss treatment:

1. visit doctors: trichologist, endocrinologist, dermatologist, therapist;
2. undergo an examination: make a trichogram, hair analysis, take a biochemical blood test;
3. adhere to the correct daily routine - get enough sleep, walk daily;
4. give up habits that are harmful to health;
5. try to wear hats - in winter a woolen hat, in summer - light straw hats.
6. abandon metal combs, curling irons and hair dryers;
7. at least for the duration of treatment, give up perms and hair dyeing;
8. daily head massage with a wooden comb;
9. avoid stressful situations;
10. remember that diet is the enemy of beautiful and healthy hair.

Note: after eliminating the cause of hair loss, the hair very soon acquires a healthy, beautiful, well-groomed appearance and in the future it is enough to maintain its density with the help of vitamin complexes that contain minerals, vitamins, and also fish oil.

Treatment of severe hair loss at home and folk remedies

For the preparation of folk remedies, you will need ingredients that are sure to be found in the house of every housewife.

1. Oil based mask.

Apply a mixture of castor or burdock oils to the scalp, massage the skin and cover the hair with polyethylene. After half an hour, rinse with warm water.

2. Egg yolk mask.

Combine the yolks of 2-3 eggs, mix, apply on the head, massage and after half an hour rinse with mint broth. This mask gives the curls thickness and shine.

3. "Burning" mask.

Thoroughly mix one part castor oil and two parts pepper tincture. Apply a hot mask to hair, cover with plastic and a warm towel. After an hour, just wash your hair with shampoo. Do the procedure three times a week.

4. Fortifying mask.

Required Ingredients:

• rye flour - 50 g;
• boiling water - 100 ml;
• olive oil - 100 ml;
• mustard powder - 5 g;
• lemon juice - a few tablespoons.

First, pour boiling water over the flour, cover the container with a lid, leave for 7 minutes, add oil, mustard powder and lemon juice to the mixture. Mix all components thoroughly. The mask is applied to the hair for half an hour and insulated with a towel, then washed off with warm water.

Note: Rye bread crumb can be used instead of rye flour.

5. Compresses.

From parsley. It is necessary to chop the parsley root and squeeze out the juice, soak the gauze with liquid, wrap the head and wrap it with a towel. After an hour, rinse the hair with warm water.

From aloe. It is advisable to use the leaves of an old plant (over three years old). Chop a few leaves, squeeze out the juice, soak the gauze and wrap the head, wrap it with a towel on top. After half an hour, the compress is washed off with warm water.

Note: Be careful not to get aloe juice in your eyes.

Coniferous compress. For its preparation, the needles of different trees are used - spruce, pine or fir. 100 g of needles are poured with a liter of boiling water, left in a water bath for 20 minutes. Then the broth is filtered, moistened with gauze and wrapped around the head, after a quarter of an hour it is enough to wash off the compress with warm water. Such a mask not only heals the curls, but also stimulates the active growth of new ones.

From orange peels. Pour the peels from several fruits with a liter of boiling water and leave for three hours. Wash your hair with the prepared infusion.

Iranian henna is very popular, which is rubbed into the scalp, washed off after an hour with warm water.

Drug treatment

1. The drug "Minoxidil".

The active ingredient minoxidil stimulates active hair growth in androgen-dependent alopecia. The drug is most effective:

• with a disease that lasts no more than ten years;
• In young age;
• localization of bald spots in the parietal region with a diameter of no more than 10 cm.

You need to use the drug daily for four months. Some patients complain of a relapse of the disease after discontinuation of the drug.

The remedy is contraindicated in children under 18 years of age, pregnant and lactating mothers, as it has serious side effects in the form of allergic reactions, facial hair growth.

Method of application: Apply 1 ml of the product (use a pipette to measure) or apply seven taps of the dispenser (for a spray) onto dry scalp, rub into the area where hair falls out. After hands wash with soap, and do not rinse the preparation from the hair. The procedure is repeated twice a day.

Note: analogues based on the substance minoxidil - "Kosilon", "Aleran", "Generolon".

2. Shampoo.

We are talking about Zoo Vip horse shampoos. You can buy propolis and tar shampoo-balm at your veterinary pharmacy.

The drug is intended for the care of horses, but despite this, many experts and hairdressers recommend it as a therapeutic agent for weak and brittle hair, with their abundant loss.

The unique composition of the shampoo - birch tar and propolis - have a complex healing effect on the scalp and hair.

How to use: dilute one part of the shampoo in ten parts of water, apply to hair and wait for 5 to 10 minutes. Then wash your hair and use a balm or rinse. The result will be obvious only with regular use of "Zoo Vip".

3. Treatment of concomitant diseases.

Hair loss is often the result of a serious illness, which is why in order to return a healthy, beautiful appearance to the curls, it is important to cure the pathology that provoked baldness.

• Fungal diseases - drugs such as "Griseofulvin", "Terbinafine", "Ketoconazole", "Chlornitrophenol" are used.Note: treatment with external drugs is possible - ointments, creams, sprays or shampoos.
• Anemia - iron supplements are prescribed, as well as vitamin medicines that stimulate the maturation of red blood cells.Note: the most effective are vitamin preparations, which include one or no more than two components.
• Endocrine diseases - the therapy regimen is prescribed depending on the pathology. These can be insulins for diabetes mellitus, drugs that replace natural estrogen, for menopause or ovarian disease.
• Skin diseases - treatment with antihistamines and glucocorticoids in the form of ointments is prescribed.
• Immune deficiency - drugs can be prescribed only after an immunogram.
• Diseases of a neurological nature - sedative medications, antidepressants are prescribed.

When starting treatment, first of all, be patient. Drug therapy or the use of traditional methods will take a lot of time, as well as a change in lifestyle.