Hair loss is a concern for both men and women and if you see a few hairs coming out, it’s easy to get carried away, envisaging a declining condition where you end up totally bald.
However, we shed hair all the time. It is a perfectly natural part of the growth process. Only when the rate of hair loss becomes excessive does it become a problem as the hair will not be replaced at the same rate as it is lost.
Most of us lose between 50 and 100 hairs a day. This sounds a lot, but your hair is constantly growing and at this rate, you will maintain a full head of hair. Certain things can cause you to lose hair more rapidly than this.
We tend to lose more hair at the end of summer, for example, while pregnancy will often see women’s hair thinning slightly. Some diseases will cause loss of hair, such as anaemia or lupus and low thyroid levels will have the same effect.
If you go to see your GP or a dermatologist, these are the kinds of things they will try and rule out when diagnosing you. There are many possible causes for hair loss, but this is also why it is so important to identify the right one.