How Life Styles and Medications Cause Hair Loss

If you are living in the city and have to wake up early to get the school or office in time, without good breakfast or exercise, you should know that this lifestyle can cause hair loss as well some medication prescriptions.

Poor Diet : Poor diet can lead to hair loss as well as many diseases.  Below poor diets can make you regret.

• Weight loss. Hair loss can happen 3 to 6 months after losing weight more than 15 pounds. 
• Eating disorder. Anorexia or bulimia can lead to hair loss.
• Vitamin A excess. Getting too much vitamin A can lead to hair loss.
• Iron intake too low. Consuming too little iron can lead to hair loss. 
• Protein intake too low. Hair will be in resting phase when the body does not get enough protein. 

Medication Prescription :  Some medications can cause hair loss.

• Birth control pills. Some women taking or discontinuing birth control pills experience hair loss. This usually occurs in women with an inherited tendency toward hair thinning. Medicines that treat arthritis, depression, gout, heart problems, and high blood pressure
• Blood thinners
• High-dose vitamin A

Hair Care Practices : This is all about your fashion and styles.  Instead of making you look good, they can cause hair problems like receding hair line and hair loss. 

• Hair cosmetics, frequent bleaching, regular or improper use of dyes, gels, relaxers, and sprays can cause hair breakage.
• Blow dryers and flat irons. The high heat from a blow dryer can boil the water in the hair shaft leaving the hair brittle and prone to breakage.
• Certain hairstyles. A type of hair loss known as traction alopecia can occur after years of wearing hair in a style that pulls on the hair such as a ponytail, cornrows, or braids. This kind of hair style can contribute scarring hair loss in African-American women.
• Too much or vigorous grooming. Too much shampooing, combing, or brushing (100 strokes or more a day), rubbing wet hair with a towel to dry. it or combing wet hair can cause hair breakage

It is necessary to know the reasons of hair loss or baldness in order to fix it at the right point.  Though there are many ways to treat it, it will be better to prevent it.  We will discuss the how to prevent for hair loss – easy and not expensive next.