{"id":28295,"date":"2018-10-30T06:39:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/health\/?p=28295"},"modified":"2020-05-15T17:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:46:51","slug":"do-the-popular-hair-loss-treatments-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/globalhealthcare\/do-the-popular-hair-loss-treatments-work","title":{"rendered":"Do the popular hair loss treatments work?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the US alone hair loss treatment industry has touched USD 3.6 billion for treating baldness and other scalp issues. Solutions range from hair transplant, laser helmets, medication and shampoos. But how far hair loss treatments work<\/strong><\/em> doesn\u2019t converge to a concrete number nor do they ensure an authentic guarantee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The crux of the issue is to identify the root cause of hair loss, factors that contribute to baldness and to what extent these can be reversed or controlled.\u00a0The demand is huge because having hair and not having it makes a great difference in looks.<\/p>\n

Patients are ready to pay for solutions and seeing a gap in demand-supply equation, companies have flooded the market with hair re-growth products. But again there exists no sacrosanct system to vouch for the effectiveness of these products.<\/p>\n

Understanding the causes:<\/h2>\n

\"hair<\/a>Myths about hair fall<\/a> seem to be many but scientific studies have revealed some cause and effect relationship for receding hairline issue.\u00a0 During the anagen stage, hair keeps growing for many years followed by the onset of catagen stage when the growth ceases.<\/p>\n

Hairs break away from follicles in which they were embedded beneath the skin. In the eventual talogen stage, follicles go into dormancy for a few months resulting in shedding of hair.\u00a0On an average, we lose 50 to 100 hairs in a day during this phase change. But if any of the phase change is disrupted, follicles may not wake up from sleep mode. Shrinkage of follicles starts signaling outbreak of hair loss.<\/p>\n

Types of hair loss:<\/h2>\n

\"Types<\/a>Myths\u00a0about hair loss<\/a> are built on premises of blind beliefs but there is certainly a pattern to the types. Here we go:<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Androgenetic Alopecia:<\/h3>\n

The most common type of hair loss affecting 50 million men and 30 million women in the US. Male pattern baldness occurs in response to dihydrotestoterone hormone and is identified as receding hairline or a bald patch.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alopecia aerate:<\/h3>\n

Manifests as patches of hair loss in the scalp and linked to autoimmune disorders. Hair follicles are thwarted by this disorder from sprouting new hair.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Talogen effluvium:<\/h3>\n

This is a rather brief phase when hair follicles get detained in talogen or resting phase and growth of new hair is terminated. This phase may get induced three months post medical conditions like surgery, childbirth, iron deficiency, high fever or\u00a0thyroid malfunctioning.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Which hair loss treatments\u00a0work?<\/h2>\n

\"stress\"<\/a>The most effective cure for hair loss would depend upon locating the underlying cause. Since the list of causes is long and the degree of complexity varies, it will be easy to attend to those for which causes are relatively easy to reverse.<\/p>\n