There are about 100,000 to 150,000 hair on the scalp about 10 percent go into resting phase(telogen) all the time.
10 percent hair(about 100) per day fall daily normally. Any hair loss more than that needs attention. There are diseases of the hair where hair are lost, like Alopecia Areata and Pseudopelade of Brocq.

• Then there is hair loss as a response to sudden dieting, trauma, injury, illness, sickness, delivery, surgery which is known as acute telogen effluvium which recovers spontaneously after the event is over.

What really concerns most or commonly occurs is chronic hair loss.
• Chronic hair loss not resulting in obvious baldness is known as Chronic telogen effluvium. It could be due to anaemia, low serum ferritin levels, Hypothyroid or Hyperthyroid state, protein deficiency etc
• It responds well to treatment and is more common in women.
• Male pattern baldness and its counterpart in women is because of the effect of male hormone or precursors of the male hormone or a derivative known as Dihydrotestosterone.
• In men hereditary and stress are main culprits.
• In women hyperinsulenemia, obesity, polycystic ovary syndrome or late onset adrenal hyperplasia are possible causes one looks at.
• Our treatment is very effective and long term.

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