Hair loss or Hair fall is a natural phenomenon. It is a natural aging process of the body. As the human being grows older, he loses some part of his hair. But the un-natural part is when someone is losing hair at the early part of their lives. Nowadays, we see that people start losing hair as early as 17 years of age. The factors which are causing early hair loss or extreme amount of hair fall can be divided into 2 segments – one is external factors and another is internal factors.
External factors which are responsible for hair loss:
Change of water or climate – Change of water is the most important external factor for having the hair loss. India is a very diverse country. The climatic condition of India is totally different from one part to another. We have seen that people who are travelling from the dry climatic condition to wet climatic condition, like from the part where humidity is low to the part where humidity is high are having high chance of having increased amount of hairloss. People who are travelling from coastal areas to the hilly areas, sometimes experience increased amount of hair loss. Water which is having more minerals or the water which is very heavy often causes of more amount of hair loss.
Solution – so at HAIRElixir – we understand this factor and we suggest our patients as how to moderate the water, which is to be used for head wash.
Over-use of Chemicals on hair and scalp: Nowadays, in the name of hair styling – young men and women often use several chemical products like – gel, hair colors, hair dyes, hair straightening chemicals, hair curling chemicals etc. These chemicals are having detrimental effect over the hair and scalp. These chemical often damages the hair roots and they usually shorten the growth phase of hair (anagen phase) to the falling phase (telogen phase); thus sometimes people would experience of having excessive amount of hair loss after using these chemicals. Sometimes, these chemicals might act as irritant to the user and causes severe anaphylactic reaction (allergic reaction) on some individual causing some serious ailments.
Solution – In case some individual is coming to us with excessive amount of hair loss – post using these chemicals, we start evaluating the extent of damage caused by these chemicals. In case the damage is not very severe, then 1-2 months of medication is enough to counter effect these chemicals and restore the hair to its normal condition. But in case the damage is more severe, then a prolonged treatment is required. We have very effective medications for this problem.
Smoking – Smoking causes a permanent damage in hair growth cycle and causes early baldness. Our hair follicle is very sensitive towards the nicotin. We have seen the person who are basically chain smokers have 70% more prone to get bald or having pre-mature hair loss problem.
Solution – Just quit smoking.
Diet – Diet is very important for good hair growth. Hair requires mainly proteins as macro-nutrient, several minerals like – calcium, iron, copper, magnesium, zinc and silica and vitamins like Vitamin C, K, E, B12, B3, B6, as micro-nutrients. The diet which consists of these macro and micro-nutrients is very important for the individual for having a good hair growth. Regular deficient diet which is not having these essential nutrients causes hair loss. Hair is very sensitive organ of our body. Slightest deficiency always reflects as premature hair fall or hair loss.
Solution – At HAIRElixir, we give utmost importance to this problem of having improper diet. We rectify this problem by giving each and every individual a proper diet chart, which is basically customized for each patient.
