Everything You Need to Know About Hair Loss and Its Treatment?
By: Seomul Evans
Submitted: 2009-11-20 14:24:13 | Word Count: 634
Have you lost 100 to 200 hairs a day? Organizations and called follicles? And no matter how many people value beauty products for hair, their aim is to regulate body temperature. Here are some facts about the hair, which is important to understand the anomalies, their causes and treatment.
The hair is called by a hard substance, keratin, which also what will be done, our nails and teeth. It grows in hair that is embedded in the deepest layer of the skin as the dermis.
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Hair producing cells are located at the base of hair follicles in the matrix. Here are the epithelial cells are rapidly dividing cells with black pigment melanin, which form the axis, which is visible through the skin.
Some facts about hair, here is an interesting character, on average, the hairs grow at a rate of about 400 microns (one millionth of a meter) per day. In view of their biological clock, which is pretty fast?
There are different types of hair on the human body. Down is the name for the type of hair that the human fetus consists given. It is excreted before birth. Pubic hair is soft and short, fine, that most of the surface is the skin.
Sophisticated hair called terminal hair that is coarse, thick and dark as found elsewhere, that in the body. Terminal hairs grow on the scalp, chin, underarms, pubic area and eyebrows.
Hair varies by race in relation to the type and color. In general, Asians have dark hair, while the white people have blond hair brown or red.
The Africans have black hair and thick .In general, the color, the thinner the hair and the deeper into the body.
Curly or straight
This is the texture of the hair that determines whether it is smooth, wavy, curly or kinky. The texture is fine, medium, or thick wire, and it depends on the diameter of the tree.
The type of hair you have is programmed into their genes, though many people try to change the rest with a curling iron or chemicals too permanently. Oh, whatever you do, your hair again and again, what was the intention of their genes!
If your hair is curly or straight depending on the shape of the hair follicle and the angle at which each chapter is at the end of the follicle. For example, curly hair follicles grow in a very acute angle.
What is Hair Loss?
The two main diseases are frequently at the border in the extreme at both ends of the scale. One of them is hair loss or alopecia is the rise of extreme and excessive growth of hair is called hirsutism.
Its full name is Alopecia Areta and the loss is sudden and excessive hair growth. It is evenly distributed between both sexes. Alopecia is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacking the body begins the hair follicle.
It can be caused by thyroid disease, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis also by certain conditions such as allergies. Alopecia was also a strong hereditary component.
On the other hand is a problem of hirsutism or unwanted hair. This disease is characterized by excessive growth of hair on certain parts of the body, especially in the upper lip and chin, underarms, pubic area.
Sometimes it can affect the entire body. Hirsutism is the presence of abnormally high concentrations of the male hormone testosterone, which in turn caused by many conditions caused.
One of the common is heritage, the conditions of polycystic ovaries, and the use of certain medications and menopause, which reduces the amount of estrogen, a female hormone.
The study of hair disorders, their causes and their treatment requires a thorough knowledge of the facts about hair, and luckily there are a number of scientific studies on this attribute of man.
