Understanding Women's Hair Loss Causes And Related Treatments

When you own healthy, voluminous hair, you tend to have that extra bounce in your step and feel great about yourself. Most of the women are proactive, when it comes to health, beauty and appearance. They notice hair loss at an early stage. It’s a proven fact that men are more likely to lose their hair than women. But thinning hair and hair loss are also common in women, and no less demoralizing, particularly if you have spent your life taking good care of yourself, eating right, exercising and nourishing your hair.

- Dr. Prerna Taneja

It’s not only women in their late forties or fifties suffer from hair loss, rather it occurs with a relative high frequency in women who are younger. Women in their thirties and even in twenties face hair loss/thinning hair issues. Here are some of the common causes of hair loss in women, take a look:

1. Emotional or physical stress: When a woman experiences something stressful emotionally or traumatic, like a death in the family, separation from spouse/loved one, a significant job change, or any big move, you may experience hair loss as your body puts its resources towards getting you through that sad event. Also, if you over exert yourself physically with repetitive motion, such as typing, lifting heavy objects, or working in an awkward position, you result into rigorous hair loss

2. Pollution: The contaminants of air pollution including particulate matter, dust, smoke, nickel, lead and arsenic, sulfur dioxide nitrogen dioxide, ammonia and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons settling on the scalp and hair, lead to sudden hair loss.

3. Poor Diet: These days women dream to be in their best shape. In order to achieve that, they indulge themselves into dieting which leads to lack of nutrition in their body, resulting into massive hair loss.

4. Lack of sleep: If you are hyperactive, you might be going through insomnia problems. This also results into hair loss.

5. Lack of protein: In order to make new hair cells, eating protein is essential. If you’re not eating enough, your body won’t have enough new hairs to replace the old ones when they shed.