1. DHT Hair Loss: A Chem­i­cal Process

Dihy­drotestos­terone (DHT) is a nat­ural metabo­lite in the human body that is the main cause for hair loss.  The trou­ble starts once testos­terone com­bines with an enzyme present in the oil glands found in hair fol­li­cles. DHT shrinks the hair fol­li­cle which causes the hair fol­li­cle gets smaller and finer. This is referred to as minia­tur­iza­tion with which the hair ulti­mately falls off. This is how DHT is respon­si­ble for about 95% of hair loss. The men or women who lose more hair are those who are genet­i­cally pre-disposed in pro­duc­ing more DHT than others.

2. Mir­a­cle Hair Care Prod­ucts for Baldness?

 There is no mir­a­cle hair care prod­uct that will stop bald­ing. How­ever, if a prod­uct blocked enzyme pro­duc­tion in the oil glands and DHT it should result in block­ing the hor­mone that causes balding.

3. FDA Approved Prope­cia for DHT Hair Loss

 Finas­teride is a drug that was used to treat prostate can­cer but the FDA has tested this drug and found that it reduces the pro­duc­tion of the enzyme 5 alpha thereby reduc­ing DHT lev­els. Hair loss is pre­vented when using this drug, how­ever it is only intended for males to use as a pre­ven­ta­tive hair loss solution.

Causes of hair loss induced by scalp infections.

Fol­li­culi­tis

Fol­li­culi­tis is a term for inflam­ma­tion of hair fol­li­cles. It looks like acne with lit­tle rings of inflam­ma­tion sur­round­ing the open­ing of a hair fol­li­cle. In the early stages of a fol­li­culi­tis, the hair fiber may still be present, but as the fol­li­culi­tis pro­gresses the hair often falls out. There are non-infectious forms of fol­li­culi­tis, such as those caused by oils and greases applied to the skin that clog up the hair fol­li­cles, but fol­li­culi­tis is usu­ally due to a bac­te­r­ial infec­tion. Non­pre­scrip­tion top­i­cal antibi­otics such as bac­i­tracin, myc­i­tracin, or neomycin can be used to treat minor folliculitis

Piedra

Piedra (tri­chomy­co­sis nodu­laris) hap­pens when the hair fibers are infected by a fun­gus. The vis­i­ble indi­ca­tor of a piedra infec­tion is devel­op­ment of hard nod­ules on hair fibers. Indeed, “piedra” is Span­ish for stone. Piedra infec­tion may affect hairs of the scalp, body, and gen­i­tal areas. Usu­ally the infec­tion is rel­a­tively benign. In parts of Malaysia, the nod­ules of black piedra are con­sid­ered attrac­tive and tra­di­tion­ally women encour­aged its growth by sleep­ing with their hair buried in the soil. Treat­ment gen­er­ally involves shav­ing off affected areas. Anti-fungals such as keto­cona­zole or terbinafine are also used.

Demodex fol­licu­lo­rum

Demodex is a lit­tle worm-like crea­ture that likes to live on skin and in hair fol­li­cles. It feeds on dead skin and oils, so it par­tic­u­larly likes to live in hair fol­li­cles where there are lots of both.

Humans are born free of Demodex, but dur­ing child­hood, through con­tact with oth­ers, the skin can become infected with it. For the most part, we never know they are there. They are benign, if repul­sive, lit­tle crea­tures. The most com­mon prob­lem with Demodex is that they may cause irri­ta­tion, par­tic­u­larly in the eye­lashes. If you have itchy eye­lashes, Demodex may be the problem.

Patients should be very care­ful if they pull scabs off and should be aware that they put them­selves at risk of remov­ing the graft. There are actu­ally two types of scabs; one of the two is stuck only to the hair and the other type is stuck to the actual sur­face of the graft. In a study it showed that for the first two days, pulling on a scab always resulted in a lost graft, the chances of the graft being com­pletely removed startes to decrease by the third day. Pulling on scabs that were stuck to the sur­face always resulted in a lost graft through day 1–5 how­ever, by days 10 – 14 post– op, grafts are at a lower risk of  being dis­lodged. You must be gen­tle with scabs if you are going to chose to pull them off, regard­less of the time frame you still risk the chance of pulling the graft out as well. If you fol­low the wash­ing tech­nique we out­line for you in our post-op instruc­tions the scabs should come off on their own. The use of Graft­Cyte which is a copper-peptied moist dress­ing, hydrates the area, as well as pro­vides micronu­tri­ents to speed the heal­ing of the fol­li­cles and will be able to elim­i­nate sur­face crust­ing while allow­ing the coag­u­lum that formed around the graft, to hold it firmly in place.

Demodex Fol­li­clorm are a species of mites, it has also been called “face mite”. Demodex Fol­li­clorm varies in size from .1mm to .4mm long, it lives in your pores and hair fol­li­cles, typ­i­cally on your scalp, nose, eye­brows and often in the roots of your eye­lashes. Demod­i­cides are very worm like with tiny claws and scales all over its body, this make it eas­ier for it to anchor itself in the hair fol­li­cle. Female demod­i­cides can lay up to 25 eggs in a sin­gle fol­li­cle, and as the mites grow, they become tightly packed. When the mites mature they leave the fol­li­cle to mate and lay more eggs. Mites have a daily rou­tine so to say, dur­ing the day they remain feed­ing within the fol­li­cle. At night, they emerge onto the sur­face to mate, and eggs are laid into fol­li­cles so that the newly hatched mites may feed on the oily secre­tions of the scalp known as sebum.

Almost every human being holds the Demodex mite to some degree; peo­ple that are los­ing their hair carry a sub­stan­tially large amount of the mites in their fol­li­cles. So if the pres­ence of the mite is so uncon­trolled in everyone�s fol­li­cles, wouldn’t every­one be suf­fer­ing from hair loss? The most preva­lent expla­na­tion is that some of us are unfor­tu­nate and carry a gene that may cause an immune response that is not nec­es­sar­ily con­sis­tent across all those who are affected with the mite. An inflam­ma­tory reac­tion on the scalp is an effect the mite has on these peo­ple, and when this occurs the hair fol­li­cle is killed. The sec­ond most com­mon rea­son­ing is that level of infes­ta­tion tak­ing place is so immense the hair fol­li­cle even­tu­ally begins to suf­fer. The mite like explained ear­lier feeds off the sebum; this causes the fol­li­cle to become pro­gres­sively under­nour­ished caus­ing the hair fol­li­cle to even­tu­ally fall out.

Most bald­ing men tend to have hair on the sides and back of the head. It is here where the hair is extracted from the scalp for the hair trans­plant. It is called Donor Dom­i­nance. In the hair trans­plant process hair is taken from the donor area and trans­ferred to the bald­ing area. It is essen­tial that a patient have an accept­able amount of hair in the donor region to fill the bald areas. A strip is har­vested from the donor area, and then each fol­li­cle is inserted into the sites that are made to cre­ate the new hair line. In just three to four months the trans­planted hair will start to sprout.