Baldness Treatment and Beneficial Remedies for Baldness - By: Dr. Lee Mikal

Common baldness, from time to time called male- or female-pattern baldness, accounts for 99 percent of hair loss in men and women.

Although its exact causes are unidentified, heredity, hormones and age are contributing factors.

Unlike hair loss resulting from disease or other non-hereditary factors, hair loss due to ordinary baldness is permanent.

Hair is a conspicuous element in many cultural definitions of fashion, youth and sexuality.

So, it is not surprising that many cringe at the first sign of thinning hair.

Baldness, also known as alopecia, is hair loss, or absence of hair.

Baldness is usually most noticeable on the scalp, but can occur anywhere on the body where hair grows. The condition is more common in men than in women.

Causes of Baldness

Hair grows about an inch every pair of months. Each hair grows for 2 to 6 years, remains at that length for a short period, then falls out.

A new hair soon begins mounting in its place. At any one time, about 85% of the hair on your head is in the growing phase and 15% is not.

Each hair sits in a hollow space in the skin called a follicle. Baldness in men occurs when the follicle shrinks over time, resultant in shorter and finer hair.

The end result is a very small follicle with no hair inside. Ordinarily, hair should grow back.

However, in men who are hairless, the follicle fails to grow a new hair. Why this occurs is not well understood, but it is related to your genes and male sex hormones.

Even though the follicles are small, they stay alive, suggesting the possibility of new growth.

Symptoms of Baldness

Having androgenetic alopecia normally means that a person familiarity hair loss as early as during their teen years.

For men, this type of baldness is typically characterize by hair loss that begins at the temple and crown.

The end result may be partial or total baldness. Women with androgenetic alopecia usually have hair loss limited to tapering at the front, sides or crown.

Complete balness rarely occurs in women. Person with alopecia areata, baldness usually occurs in small, round, level patches.
Person may lose only scalp hair or may mislay body hair as well

Treatment of Baldness

There is no cure for frequent baldness, but surgical hair replacement can give you back a head of your own hair.
Available since the 1950s, surgical hair substitution is a low-risk procedure.

Surgeons take away tiny plugs (grafts) of your hair-bearing skin and transplant them into tiny holes made in your scalp.

They take these plug from the band of hair extend from above your ears approximately the back of your scalp.

During one session, your surgeon may remove between 60 and 100 hair plugs, each about the diameter of a pencil eraser. Local anesthesia and mild sedation reduce discomfort during surgery.

Home Remedies for Baldness

1. Mix 2 tablespoon of honey with 1 tablespoon of cinnamon powder and 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil. Apply this stick over the effect area. Allow it to stand for 20 minutes and then wash it off.

2. Mix onion juice with honey and apply it on the effect area. It has shown some good results in hair enlargement and prevents hair loss.

3. One of the very usually used remedy for hair loss is curd with camphor. It plays an important role in civilizing hair enlargement over the bald scalp.

Take curd and camphor, in equal number (3-5 tablespoon) and mix it well and keep it aside for some time.

Apply this paste greater than the effect scalp, and let it dry for 3-4 hours. Wash the scalp with humid water.

4. Another useful hair loss remedy is honey. It plays a vital role in the treatment of baldness.

Mix honey and egg yolk and cover the entire effected scalp with it. Allow it to stand for 1-2 hours and wash the scalp.

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