FEMALE PATTERN HAIR LOSS
Posted by Manny Y on 7th Apr 2015
Just about everywhere in the internet you can find a lot of articles, discussion and forums about men dealing and battling about with hair loss. Generally, you can read about men who are just beginning to experience the early signs of hair loss go crazy and panicky as if it’s the end of their life. But then again, just give them a few years and you’d find them with a shaved head and their all confident again. Fortunate for men, hair loss can easily be fixed.
On the flip side, there are not much forums or writings about hair loss in women. Female pattern hair loss is very similar to the cause of hair loss in men which is sometimes called male pattern hair loss. Collectively this condition is called androgenetic alopecia, the number onecause of hair loss.
For women, hair is not something that you can easily throw out. A woman’s hair is a crucial part of their beauty, their psyche and taking this away from them can wreak havoc ona women’s social life and can potentially cause depression.
Presently, hair loss treatment products are everywhere. The most famousand probably the most effective of all hair loss treatments are anti-DHT or DHT inhibitors. DHT stands for dihydrotestosterone, a potent androgen which come from the male hormone testosterone. Testosterone is converted to DHT when acted upon by 5 alpha reductase, an enzyme.
Most widely used hair loss treatments stops the developmentof the enzyme 5 alpha redutase, therefore, stop the production for DHT. But these treatments are meant to be used for men only. Women are prohibited to use this type of hair loss treatments due to the danger in which if pregnancy occurs, the inhibition of DHT can cause adverse effects to the fetus.
Luckily, there are other DHT inhibitors that aren’t in pill form. Anti-DHT shampoos are also available and are just as effective. What’s so great about these products is that they are safe even after years of use.