• Wash your hair regularly in warm water and use a deep conditioner.
• Eat a balanced diet. Nutritional deficiencies, eating disorders and excessive amounts of certain vitamins, such as A and E, can cause hair loss.
• Take care of your health. Chronic illness, high fevers and infections can contribute to hair loss.
• Stay away from harsh chemicals – permanent hair color and perms are the most damaging – and avoid coloring your hair more than once every six to eight weeks
• Avoid hairstyles like ponytails and cornrows, which stretch and pull hair.
• Keep in mind that it’s normal to lose between 50 and 100 hairs a day.
• Consult your general physician or dermatologist regarding concerns about hair loss.

Lots of options exist for female hair loss treatments. Finding a few more hairs in drain can make us nervous, but it doesn’t mean necessarily that you are going bald or have some serious hair problem. Most female hair loss is either due to natural losses or breakage.

• Natural Female Hair Loss ~~ It is normal thy you lose some hair every day, usually 150 to 200 strands. Hair follicles go through three stages of development:
• The Growth Phase lasts anywhere from two to six years. Hair grows approximately one half to one inch a month. The hair shaft is thickest during the growth phase.
• The Resting Phase lasts just a few weeks.
• The Shedding Phase usually lasts five six weeks. New hair begins to grow, and the old hair is shed an replaced. New hair is very fine.

Female Hair Loss Due to Breakage ~~ Many people mistake breakage for female hair loss, but there is a distinct difference. Female hair loss is a medical condition; hair breakage is not. Follow these steps to keep your hair intact and looking healthy to avoid breakage.

• Shampoo Make sure your routine shampoo says it is pH-balanced and avoid those that are alkaline. Alkaline shampoos strip the hair’s natural oils and disrupt the acid mantle, causing dehydration and leading to porous, fragile hair.
• Hot-Oil Treatments Hot-oil treatments have become very popular. However, the very heat that causes them to penetrate the hair shaft can also lead to further damage of the hair. Over time, the continued, excessive heat exposure will cause the hair to become weaker. Stick with regular conditioners
• Leave-In Conditioner Consider the routine use of a leave-in conditioner or detangler. Typically applied after towel-drying, these help reduce trauma and breakage when you comb through wet hair.
• Styling Minimizing the use of daily hot rollers, blow-dryers, flat irons and chemical applications can reduce the trauma on the hair shaft and help minimize female hair loss.

But, if you suspect your hair is thinning beyond normal female hair loss and breakage, you should talk to your dermatologist, who may have better knowledge of the causes than your regular physician. There are many options to choose from in female hair loss treatments, and your dermatologist can recommend one that is right for you. Some formulas you might hear:

• FNS Follicle Nutrient Serum ~~ Contains natural ingredients said to stimulate hair regrowth.
• Nizoral Shampoo ~~ May provide some benefit to women with female-pattern alopecia.
• Rogaine ~~ A topical medication that helps trigger growth of hair. Women should stick with the 2% formula to minimize growth of hair elsewhere (like the face).
• Propecia ~~ A prescription medication taken once a day to help regrow recently lost hair and slow or stop hair loss.
• Flutamide ~~ A prescription medication that can help reduce female-pattern alopecia.

There are a number of causes of hair loss. The common causes are:

Infection: Fungal infections can cause hair loss. They are easily treated with topical medicines.

Hormones: For men baldness is usually caused due to hormones. Hair loss may occur due to an overactive or under-active thyroid gland. Changes in androgen and estrogen level can cause a hair loss in both men and women. Hormone/ Steroid injections are usually given to correct hormonal imbalance.

Illness: Prolonged illness, major surgery, stress, can result in hair loss in large amounts. Temporary illnesses generally do not cause hair loss. Hair loss may also occur due to diseases, such as lupus or diabetes.

Pregnancy: Hair loss in women may occur after child birth. Such hair loss occurs after 3 to 4 months delivery. This is because of high level of hormonal changes during and after pregnancy. This type of hair loss is self correcting and new hair usually grow back.

Medicines: Some medicines can cause hair loss such as anticoagulants used for treatment of gout, chemotherapy used to treat cancer, over consumption of vitamin A, antidepressant medicines, and birth control pills.

Diet: Your diet also plays a role in hair loss. Eating enough healthy nutrients will keep your hair healthy and full. Nutrition increases the size of the hair shaft, this helps make the hair that you have cover a larger area. Supplementing a good multivitamin is essential to maintaining a healthy head of hair.

Smoking: I know you have heard everything is attributed to smoking, well hair loss can also be added to that list. Smoking causes the blood vessels in your body to shrink. This restricts the amount of blood that gets to you hair. Without adequate blood flow some hair will die.

Genetic: The biggest cause of hair loss is the genes being passed on from generation to generation.

Stress: Major traumatic events and even built up stress over time can have an impact on hair retention and growth. Reducing stress or getting through trauma can assist in hair re growth.

Hairstyles: When their hair is pulled tight on a repetitive basis, hair loss can result. Women who wear tight pony tails often suffer from some magnitude of hair loss.

The main issue during treatment is to use the most effective combination of drugs and herbal remedies. It’s important to find the cause of your hair loss and whether or not the hair loss will respond to medical treatment. Now keep in mind that treatment to regrow hair does not work for everyone, and will definitely not work if the wrong kind of hair loss has been diagnosed. To get advice and treatment for hair loss, you should always start with either your doctor or a professionally qualified trichologist.