If you want to know when it gets gray, you can watch your parents. As early in your life, gray depends on genetic factors. and occurs when the hair shaft cells stop producing pigments. This lack of pigment causes the hair to lose most of its color and turn gray. But the good news is that even if you can not prevent it from turning gray, you can sl...
The term "trichotillomania" comes from the Greek words "thrix," meaning "hair" and "tillein" meaning "to pull" and "mania," the Greek word for "madness" or "frenzy". As the name suggests trichotillomania is a psychiatric condition in which an individual has an uncontrollable urge to pull out his or her own body hair. For people suffering from trich...
While many may have thought of hair loss as an exclusively a male problem, the truth is that hair loss can affect men, women and even children. There are many factors that can lead to hair loss, heredity may be one of them. There are also some things you can do to stop the process, you can learn how to avoid thinning of hair. Here are some easy...
Male Menopause and hair loss often go hand in hand. Imagine groups of hair falling from your head or looking at healthy strands of hair that accumulate in the shower drain. Maybe you put your hand in your hair and you feel diminishing. That may seem daunting and quite frightening. Hair loss is usually the result of an imbalance of testosterone, a...
Everybody hates dandruff ( Pityriasis capitis, pityriasis sicca). No body likes the falling white flakes and the itching scalp. we all try many shampoos and treatments, both natural and chemical to get rid of Pityriasis capitis or pityriasis sicca. I want to ask many of you who suffer dandruff- how are you sure that you are having dandruff? Unless...
In our society, a man losing his hair as he ages has long been held as one of those inevitable things in life, such as death and taxes, and that there isn't anything that can be done to stop it. Fortunately for many men, science has made advances in understanding what causes hair loss and finding effective ways to stop it and possibly even reverse...
