Do you know some of the causes?

Women and hair loss:
Do you know some of the causes?

There are common factors that cause hair loss in both sexes, such as hormonal changes, age and heredity, which cause androgenetic alopecia.
The causes or factors that may influence hair loss in women are even more complex than in men. There are many factors that can affect not only hair loss, but also the density and strength of the hair. These include nutrition, lifestyle, stress, etc.
Androgenetic alopecia in both men and women produces a change in the scalp hair. It becomes miniaturized, the hair bulb and shaft become smaller, and the follicle produces fine, small-diameter hair (vellus hair).
In women, this type of alopecia tends to follow the female pattern, which manifests as diffuse hair loss but with the frontal part of the hair remaining intact.
There are usually 2 main peaks that mark the beginning of this type of hair loss.
• One when the woman is in her twenties.
• One at around the age of 40 (beginning of hormonal changes) until the onset of the menopause.
Androgenetic alopecia is not the only cause of hair loss in women. There are other transitory factors that affect hair loss. These include anxiety, depression, taking oral contraceptives, emotional trauma, iron-deficiency anaemia, post-partum stress and the menopause.
In the period prior to the menopause, women’s hormones are in real turmoil (13% of pre-menopausal women suffer from frontal and parietal hair loss, compared to 37% of post-menopausal women).