Hair plays an impor­tant role in the female world. Many women are defined by their outer appear­ance. Hav­ing beau­ti­ful healthy hair is a part of the equa­tion that women use to mea­sure their beauty and appear­ance. Although hair loss in women is just as com­mon as it is in men, it is more dif­fi­cult to deal with. Hair loss occurs for a wide vari­ety of rea­sons and there are a hand­ful causes at the cen­ter of this problem.

One doc­u­mented med­ical con­di­tion know to com­monly to cause hair loss in women is menopause. When a woman begins to enter menopause the lev­els of estro­gen in the body begins to decrease. Estro­gen is needed to help pro­duce testos­terone. The cor­rect lev­els of testos­terone make it pos­si­ble for hair to con­tinue to grow and main­tain a healthy cycle. With­out enough estro­gen and testos­terone the growth of hair begins to slow result­ing in hair loss.

Women pat­tern bald­ness is typ­i­cally the thin­ning of the hair on the top of the scalp. For many, it can get quite thin, leav­ing women feel­ing very inse­cure and try­ing dif­fer­ent hair­styles to con­ceal the prob­lem. Unfor­tu­nately, they usu­ally opt for styles which can fur­ther dam­age hair fol­li­cles, lead­ing to more thinning.

In the past, women teased their hair, pulled it back in pony tails, or permed it to hide their secret. But, now there is some­thing that can be done to treat this prob­lem. In fact, if it is caught in time, hair can be regrown by using the proper treatment.

With hair loss becom­ing a com­mon cause of con­cern amongst mil­lions of peo­ple across the world, every year a large num­ber of med­ica­tions, herbs, spices, nutri­tional sup­ple­ments, oils, sham­poos etc comes up in the mar­ket each claim­ing itself to be the panacea for hair loss. Each year, men suf­fer­ing from hair loss spend bil­lions of dol­lars in an attempt to treat their hair loss. Unfor­tu­nately, a large per­cent­age of all prod­ucts being mar­keted in the less than eth­i­cal hair loss treat­ment indus­try are com­pletely inef­fec­tive for the major­ity of those who use them.

If you are going bald you should seri­ously con­sider hair loss med­ica­tion treat­ments to halt or even reverse your hair loss. While there is no cure for hair loss drugs can often stop or even reverse alope­cia aer­ate in most peo­ple. Med­ica­tion for treat­ing hair loss slows thin­ning of the hair and increases cov­er­age of the scalp by grow­ing new hair and enlarg­ing exist­ing hairs.

Types of Med­ica­tions for Hair loss Treatment

Today there are two FDA approved med­ica­tions for hair growth – minox­i­dil which is sold over the counter as Rogaine, for both men and women, and Finas­teride, a pre­scrip­tion pill sold as Prope­cia, for men only. Two other drugs have been recently approved for hair growth and include a high-estrogen oral con­tra­cep­tive and Aldac­tone (How­ever, these two med­ica­tions are only for women due to their fem­i­niz­ing side effects.

Both these med­ica­tions slow thin­ning of the hair and increase cov­er­age of the scalp by grow­ing new hair and enlarg­ing exist­ing hairs. How­ever, the effec­tive­ness of finas­teride or minox­i­dil depends on your age and the loca­tion of hair loss. These med­ica­tions do not work for every­one, and you should not expect to re-grow a full head of hair.

Dan­druff causes fre­quent irri­ta­tion, inflam­ma­tion and itch­ing in the scalp. Indi­vid­u­als that that expe­ri­ence this type of irri­ta­tion and itch­ing in the scalp, often tend to scratch the area to relieve itch­ing. Scratch­ing the scalp fre­quently weak­ens the roots of the hair. This even­tu­ally leads the hair to fall out. A per­son can develop dan­druff due to sev­eral rea­sons such as, over intake of sugar and fats, exces­sive expo­sure to sun­light, per­spi­ra­tion, and in some case it may be due to genetic prob­lems. If the pres­ence of dan­druff is not due to genetic rea­sons, it can be treated effec­tively. The most effec­tive over– the– counter treat­ments avail­able are the anti-dandruff sham­poos and con­di­tion­ers which con­tain chem­i­cals such as zinc pyrithione and sele­nium sul­fide. After wash­ing hair with these par­tic­u­lar prod­ucts, the chem­i­cal is left on the scalp. These chem­i­cals pre­vent the regrowth of the fun­gus caus­ing the dan­druff on the scalp, and hence the hair is pro­tected from hair loss asso­ci­ated with the dandruff.

Women expe­ri­enc­ing hair loss may have feel­ings of anx­i­ety and help­less­ness that could lead to men­tal dis­tress. Despite what you may think, as a woman – you do have options. Hair restora­tion is an option many women are opt­ing to undergo to cor­rect their hair loss and regain nat­ural healthy hair. Fol­lic­u­lar unit graft­ing is the most advance method being used in hair restora­tion to pin­point pre­ci­sion grafts in terms of place­ment. Each fol­lic­u­lar unit can con­tain up to four hairs. The sin­gle hair grafts are placed at the fore­front of the scalp, which cre­ates a very nat­ural appear­ance. The rest of the grafts are placed slightly behind the fore­front sin­gle hair grafts to cre­ate a dense and pro­found look on the female scalp.