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With so many different reasons why you might be losing your hair, it is vitally important that you don’t keep it to yourself and you discuss your hair loss with your family and your doctor. Hair loss, particularly in women is more common that you might think and it can be easily treated provided you get a formal diagnosis from your doctor or a specialist at the hospital. Although some forms of hair loss are not treatable, there are so measures, which can be taken to ensure that it does not get any worse and could eventually result in your hair coming back.

Most women who are suffering from hair loss are going through a stressful time in their life and they are struggling to cope with what is going on around them. Women also experience hair loss and hair thinning during the menopause and if they are receiving chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment for cancer.

If you don’t know anybody who is going through the same experience as you, you might want to ask your doctor if they know of any support groups that you could go to so you can share your experiences with other women and get tips on how to cover your hair loss. This could help you come to terms with your hair loss.

Is hair loss affecting your self esteem and is it making you feel down about your appearance but you don’t know what you can do to change this? Well you might not have previously looked into the hair treatments that are available and also the hair replacements that are also on the market that would be perfect for you.

It doesn’t matter whether you have completely lost your hair, your hair is thinning or you have patches of hair loss on your head, you still need to go and speak to your doctor to find out why it is occurring and what can be done in terms of treatment. Once you have discussed the various treatment options, you can start to think about covering your hair loss if you want to by wearing a wig, or choosing to have hair pieces inserted into the remaining hair so that it appears thicker and fuller. Hair pieces are great for women who are suffering with certain types of alopecia because they can be inserted wherever they might be experiencing hair loss without looking obvious or noticeable.

Your confidence will certainly get a boost once you start wearing your new wig or hair pieces because your hair loss won’t be noticeable to anybody.

Female pattern hair loss or androgenic alopecia is when women experience generally experience ‘diffused thinning’, generally throughout the top of the head or crown. Most women who suffer from this kind of hair loss experience it during their 20s and 30s however for some women they experience significant hair thinning when they get into their forties. The menopause can cause women to lose their hair as a result of the hormone change that they are going through and it has been estimated by scientists that by 50, 50% of all women will have experience some hair loss or hair thinning.

If you are suffering from hair loss but you are unsure whether it is female pattern hair loss it can be typically identified as overall thinning of the hair rather than specific patches of baldness like a man would get. The thinning of the hair occurs all over the head.

Female pattern hair loss is caused as a result of a hormone change which affects the hair follicle and eventually proceeds weaker hair and the follicle starts to shrink and will eventually stop producing hair. Once it gets past this stage it can be difficult to treat so it is worth going to see your doctor before your loss hair becomes serious.

If women in your family have experienced hair loss it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to suffer from it yourself. Hair loss is something that some women go through during their lifetime and for some it can be a difficult thing for them to go through but you need to stay strong and ensure that you are doing everything you can to prevent your hair loss being significant.

For some, hair loss is very minimal and they have experienced only thinning of the hair whereas experience complete hair loss. It can be a hard thing to come to terms with but provide you have friends and family around you to support you and have the right medical advice then you will be able to get through it.

There are many different kinds of hair loss so there is so many different reasons why you can lose your hair and the only way that you will know what kind of hair loss you are experiencing is to go to the doctor and have your hair loss formally diagnosed. Your doctor will be able to put you in the right direction of treatments as well as practical ways to help reduce the environs that might be causing your hair loss.

Hair loss is something that might run in your family and it might be something that you are concerned about because you know of somebody that is currently suffering from it and you worry that it might be something that you suffer with.

Although hair loss particularly in men has been shown to be hereditary, it cannot be proven that hair loss in women is hereditary and sometimes it is a result of stress, hormones and for other medical reasons. Regardless of why you might be experiencing hair loss or if you know somebody who is, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to too.

If you are seriously concerned that you might suffer from hair loss then you need to speak to a doctor to see if you have any tell tale signs such as stresses in your life that could result in hair loss in the future. A doctor will be able to give you advice about reducing the stress in your life and ensure that you are keeping in good health so that it will reduce the chance that you lose your hair. However it really isn’t something you should be worrying yourself about and if it does happen to you there are many treatments available in order to combat it.

According to trichologists (hair and scalp experts), more than one third of young modern women aged just 25 to 35 are beginning to suffer from hair loss conditions caused by the stresses of modern life.

A high-profile example of this is Elin Nordegren, who admitted recently that the stress of finding out about golfing husband Tiger Woods’ numerous affairs caused her hair to fall out in clumps.

Speaking to the Daily Mail this week, hair transplant surgeon Dr Bessam Farjo said:

“Women are leading increasingly stressful lives, with pressures that didn’t exist for their forebears,”

“They are now having to maintain successful careers as well as fulfilling the role of wife, mother and homemaker. The body reacts to stress by producing more free radicals, which cause damage and, in some cases, hair falls out.”

Other reasons for hair loss in young women have been named as:

Hormonal changes following pregnancy
Genetics – Some people are pre-disposed to thinning hair, or even androgenic alopecia (female pattern baldness)
Poor diet – Experts say that protein and iron deficiencies could cause hair loss

Psychologist Linda Papadopoulos explains the effect female hair loss has on the self-esteem of stressed-out modern women, saying:

“In our culture, hair is bound up in notions of womanhood and sexual attractiveness,”