Causes of Thinning Hair

Almost everyone develops hair thinning at any stage of life. In most cases, hair thinning happens to be temporary and people regain hair after few weeks to months. In certain cases, hair thinning is unpreventable and leads to complete hair loss or baldness.



It is due to different causes of hair thinning and further depends upon when you seek treatment. Seeking a hair loss treatment when hair follicles on the scalp becomes dead is useless. There is no cure for such hair loss except follicle grafting.

Cultural advancement greatly affected our diet. According to various surveys, Americans lack are taking daily required amount of nutrients in their daily diet. Although super refined and processed foods are tasty, they either lose their nutrients or the quality of the nutrients do not remain what it should be for healthy body. Unhealthy diet, rich fats and poor in vitamins and minerals causes nutrients deficiency. You hair is a living body that itself arises from living hair follicles. Living bodies needs nutrients for healthy growth and removing waste products produced by your body. You need vitamin A for removing free radicals from your body and strengthening the immune system. Vitamin C accelerates the rate of growth of cells. Hair follicles are made up of epithelial tissues that frequently replaces themselves and need more vitamin C. Vitamin E reduces the stiffness in blood capillaries increasing the blood flow towards hair follicles. In general, lack of nutrients is the foremost cause of hair thinning.

Autoimmune disorder is often a congentinal disorder and causes hair thinning that leads to complete baldness. In this disorder, your immune system is unable to recognizes what is harmful and useful for your body and destroys body's own tissues like hair follicles. Epithelial tissues are very susceptible and soon get degenerated by the effect of autoimmune disorder. A baby suffered from autoimmune disorder is born with few hairs and lose them after few weeks. Doctors prescribe thyroid supplements, insulin injections, corticosteroids and immnosuppressants to treat autoimmune disorder.

Using certain drugs like anti-psychotics and chemotherapy may cause hair thinning. But hair thinning caused by these factors is often temporary and a patient regains after few weeks of stopping the drug. In certain conditions, using hair care products and anti hair loss remedies becomes necessary as some drugs leaves severe side effects. While you are on anti-psychotics, do not stopping taking these drugs without consultation of your physician as stopping some drugs suddenly have been reported to cause hair loss. You can use hair care shampoos and supplements to accelerate the rate of growth and prevent the side effects of the drugs.

Hormonal imbalance affects your hair follicles and thereby cause hair thinning. There are many factors that triggers hormonal imbalance. Pregnancy, menopause, lack of dietary substances, anti-psychotics, stress, depression etc. are some causes of hormonal imbalance. Therefore, menopause is inevitable factor and most women report that they have severe hair loss during and after menopause. Pregnancy and breastfeeding also cause hormonal fluctuation. Hair loss after pregnancy is very common but a women regain hair after few weeks just by using hair care supplements and taking healthy diet. As hair follicles are susceptible to excessive amount of DHT and certain other hormones, they become degenerated losing hair shafts.