The most common pathologies of hair loss (Part one)

Hair, hair, hair, it is said that they are half of beauty, how much we worry when they don't look good or when we start having problems with them, as when they start to fall out more than normally, when they start to thin or when they lose their shine and vitality. There are dozens and hundreds of products advertised for their care, but are those truly effective? Some of the most common hair pathologies are:

Diffuse hair loss (telogen effluvium).

When hair starts falling out more than normally (more than 100 strands a day) and begins to thin and lose its vitality, then the most common causes of this loss are:

• Nutritional deficiencies resulting from an unhealthy diet, lack of fiber, vitamins, minerals, generally found in vegetables and fruits, following strict diets for long periods of time.
• Endocrinological causes such as hypo or hyperthyroidism, postpartum (after the birth of a child, this because as a result of the many mitotic processes that occur during pregnancy, the hair does not fall out but after childbirth all those hairs that normally should have fallen out during the pregnancy begin to fall out all at once about 3-4 months after childbirth)
• Significant psychological and physical stress
• Anemias, especially those caused by iron deficiency (resulting from low iron intake or its loss from the organism such as various hemorrhages)
• Repeated streptococcal infections of the throat, nose, ears, etc.

The areas where hair thinning is most often noticed are on the top and sides of the head.

The good thing is that, before going to aesthetic centers and treating these hair losses, we should contact a dermatologist to find the cause of this loss, which as mentioned above are numerous, and without treating the cause, we cannot stop their loss, despite external treatments that can be done for the hair like masks or other cosmetic products.

Hair treatment is combined with oral therapy (which fights the cause) and the application of cosmetic products for the hair.

Care should be taken with the indiscriminate application of these products, frequent washing, use of cosmetic procedures like frequent blow-drying, application of products for straightening or curling, long exposure to the sun can dry out and thin the hair.

Also very effective (always after finding the cause of the loss) today is the direct application to the scalp of multivitamin solutions through mesotherapy or the application of concentrated plasma with growth factors taken from the patient's own blood (autologous autohemotherapy).

Alopecia areata

Localized hair loss in patches (alopecia areata) is another pathology where hair falls out in round or oval patches. The skin in these areas looks healthy but without hair.

This form of hair loss is generally autoimmune, meaning that unpredictably our own body creates antibodies that destroy the hair root (its follicle). In 30% of cases, it is associated with other autoimmune pathologies such as autoimmune thyroiditis (thyroid gland disease, vitiligo) skin whitening with patches, pernicious anemia.

The treatment of this pathology consists of injecting cortisone solutions into the alopecic patch at an interval of 4 weeks, and vitamin therapy.