| Your choice of hairstyle could be making your hair fall | | | | help women who are experiencing thinning hair. |
| out. Wearing your hair in tight pigtails or a cornrow | | | | There are medical treatments available for hair loss. If |
| style could be damaging your hair. This is a type of | | | | your medication is causing your current hair loss, your |
| hair loss called traction alopecia. It can also be caused | | | | doctor may be able to switch your prescription to |
| by rolling your hair very tightly on rollers. The pulling | | | | another drug. Correcting hormone imbalances or |
| on your scalp can cause scarring and permanent hair | | | | clearing up an infection can halt hair loss. Some |
| loss is possible. If the condition is discovered before | | | | medicines can help slow down or prevent hair loss. If |
| the scarring develops, your hair will grow back | | | | treatment is not available for your hair loss, you may |
| naturally. Harsh chemical hair treatments can also | | | | consider trying hair replacement, wigs, hairpieces, hair |
| cause hair loss. Hot oil treatments or permanent | | | | weaves or other hair loss solutions. |
| curling treatments may cause inflammation on your | | | | Women’s hair loss can even be related to a |
| scalp, which can result in scarring and hair loss. Many | | | | mental condition. Trichotillomania is a hair pulling |
| women will seek hair loss treatment to deal with the | | | | disorder. People with trichotillomania have the |
| damage done to their scalp and hair. | | | | unstoppable urge to pull out their own hair. It is a |
| Some women seek hair replacement to deal with | | | | very emotionally upsetting condition. People who |
| “common baldness”. Males most often | | | | suffer from this condition will pull out hair from their |
| experience baldness. Sometimes this type of hair loss | | | | scalp, eyebrows or other areas of their body. Hair |
| is called male-pattern baldness, or permanent-pattern | | | | pulling from the head can result in a pattern of bald |
| baldness. This is a trait that is inherited and is usually | | | | spots. The cause of trichotillomania is unknown. |
| seen in men. A hair line that recedes and baldness on | | | | Although trichotillomania may seem like an obsessive |
| the very top of the head are examples of | | | | compulsive disorder, it is not. The condition is |
| male-pattern baldness. Women can develop pattern | | | | considered as an impulse control disorder. Behavior |
| baldness too. It results in thinning hair all over the | | | | therapy can help people who suffer with |
| head and general loss of hair. Hair replacement | | | | trichotillomania learn about their hair pulling compulsion |
| solutions such as hair extensions are a good way to | | | | and practice techniques to stop hair pulling. |
