| When women suffer from hair loss it is called female | | | | balding are not exact, many physicians associate it |
| pattern baldness. This condition is very common, | | | | with age, genetic predispositions, and hormones. |
| however misunderstood. This is when women loose | | | | When diagnosing female pattern baldness a physician |
| hair in a typical pattern. This article will describe the | | | | will normally go by appearance. Because this is a |
| symptoms, causes, diagnostic methods and treatment. | | | | disorder that the symptoms are visible to the eye, |
| As previously stated, female pattern balding is the | | | | appearance is the best way to diagnose. Other test |
| technical term for women. Women can begin to lose | | | | can be run to see if a medical disorder is causing the |
| their it at any age, and should be aware that it can | | | | loss, but as for the balding itself just looking is the best |
| happen to them. Balding is not the same in women as | | | | method. |
| it is men. Although the process is the same, women | | | | Female pattern balding is a permanent disorder and is |
| are not as likely to lose as much as men do. Men can | | | | more common than you think. Because it is permanent |
| become bald, whereas women tend to only thin or | | | | there is not proven method of treatment that works |
| bald in spots. | | | | for everyone. One treatment method women have |
| Female pattern baldness symptoms include thinning | | | | tried is medication. There is only one medication |
| over the entire head or at the hairline. The symptoms | | | | approved in the United States and the success rates |
| may seem simple, but in reality they are not always | | | | are not high. On average medication can help it grow |
| noticeable. When women experience thinning it is not | | | | back in 20% to 25% of women. The other method of |
| usually noticed until it becomes extremely thin. If hair is | | | | treatment is a transplant. Hair transplants remove |
| lost at the crown or hair line it is more often noticed, | | | | follicles from particularly thick spots and places it in |
| but frequently ignored. Women may think their balding | | | | follicles where balding is occurring. Both of these |
| is a phase or that the hair will grow back. | | | | methods of treatment are extremely expensive and |
| The causes of female pattern balding are not as | | | | are not guaranteed to work. To get medication or |
| simple as the symptoms. The cause of balding is not | | | | transplants people must be preapproved and meet |
| an exact science. To understand balding you must first | | | | specific guide lines. Before looking into medical |
| understand how hair grows. Hair is likely to grow about | | | | treatments for balding a physician should be contacted. |
| an inch and a half per month. Each follicle can grow | | | | Female pattern baldness is not common, however can |
| anywhere from 2 to 6 years. After it is one growing it | | | | occur. Thinning of follicles should not be ignored and |
| will fall out and be replaced. Balding takes place when it | | | | balding should always be taken into consideration. |
| does not grow back in. Although the reasons for | | | | |