Both men and women suffer from hair loss and while causes are copious and may point to a number of illnesses that present with hair loss as a secondary symptom, in the scheme of things there is a primary hair loss cause that is found mostly in the younger generations but also in the middle aged female population: over styling. Of course, if you have children hair loss can also strike them. Granted, before you consider any hair loss treatments you must visit a doctor to rule out any illness and receive treatment for anything that might be related to your hair loss before you can truly embark on the mission of saving your hair, but once you have followed this bit of advice, do not be overeager to battle losing hair with a cleverly marketed hair system. Instead, honestly assess if your tresses are receding because of female hair loss or male pattern baldness, or if it is time to revisit a primary hair loss cause: over styling!
Anyone bleaching, dying, stripping, and hennaing their hair is in for some grief. In the same way, if you straighten, curl, flatten, back-comb or otherwise abuse your hair, it is only a matter of time until the hair’s structure is weakened to such an extent that it will simply break. Those who favor the African American hair styles of tightly wound corn rows or tautly pulled pony tails will do well to anticipate some hair breakage and maybe also some ripped hairs!
Over styling is considered by professional hair stylists to be one of the most common hair loss causes and those who make a living in the field of hair styling and cutting warn profusely against the plethora of abuses the hair endures. Pointing to the almost predictable progression that leads from over styling to the realization that hair is brittle, breaks, and splits, and from there gives way to the heightened expenses associated with costly hair treatments, expensive shampoos that allege faster hair growth, the growth of healthier hair, and also the protection of already structurally weakened hair. Stylists also point out that it is at this point that women – who are fare more likely to over style their hair than men – will fall for faddish cures and supposed healing hair loss treatments such as scalp hair treatments that claim to revitalize previously clogged follicles and produce the growth of hair thus far weakened due to frequent splitting, breakage and brittleness.
As hard as it is to swallow for many a woman who prizes her artfully coiffed tresses, the best remedy is a closely cropped hair cut that eliminates as much of the brittle hair as possible and cuts back to the portion of the hair that is still healthy and relatively unaffected by the abuse that was heaped on it. From then, stylists recommend a complete cessation of hair styling with the exception of shampooing with a mild shampoo, conditioning with a medicated conditioners, and general styling only with the use of products which will not contribute to clogged follicles or brittle hair. Bleaching and dying must be suspended, as must straightening, curling, and blow drying.
