The causes of hair fall can be traced to various aspects of life style and many other diseases or disorders and chronic health problems. The causes of hair fall can be temporal in respect of being vulnerable to some environmental or atmosphere oriented factors that are likely to cause damages to the hair follicle or scalp condition.
Hair fall is one of the most common lifestyle oriented diseases that make millions of people to suffer regularly. The causes of hair fall can be traced to various aspects of life style and many other diseases or disorders and chronic health problems. The causes of hair fall can be temporal in respect of being vulnerable to some environmental or atmosphere oriented factors that are likely to cause damages to the hair follicle or scalp condition. But, mainly or in majority of cases the causes of hair fall are rooted in the factors of our life style that slowly develops into various diseases or health disorders. Here we would introduce some of the major causes of hair fall.
Before going into describing the life style causes of hair loss, we would describe some diseases of the scalp that invariably cause hair fall. Many of these diseases require medical treatment and cannot be controlled only through life style changes and shifting of habits. We would start here with some of the medical conditions or diseases as the causes of hair fall.
Alopecia Areata:
This disease starting in the scalp can completely cause absolute baldness in the long run if remains untreated for long time. In this disease the hair falls out to make way for several smooth patches of scalp to come out and slowly with the passage of duration encompass other areas of the scalp and makes way for absolute baldness. With this disease the patient invariably needs to consult a dermatologist or hair expert for the treatment of the disease.
High fever, Typhoid or Flu
Persistent and continuance of disorderly syndromes of health like high temperature, infectious viral diseases like flu or typhoid can also cause severe and continuous hair fall to make way for baldness to spread in the scalp.
Cancer Treatment
As we already know that the cancer disease is caused mainly by the uncontrolled cell growth in any part of the body and the treatment of the disease is mainly focused on putting a stop to the process of division and growth of the cells. This feature of the treatment of the cancer causes also hair cells to divide and grow and this cause closing of new hair growth and rapid hair falls.
Various Surgery or Chronic Illness
Various surgery or chronic illness or disorderly syndromes can also cause the hair to fall rapidly to cause baldness syndromes. Some of the chronic illness or diseases associated with our liver functioning or stomach disorder can cause our hair to fall rapidly.
Life Style Oriented Causes
Life style oriented problems are the most common area of causes of hair fall and many other diseases or health disorders that cause hair fall. Most important factor that cause hair fall in majority of the cases is nutrition. Other important factors causing the hair fall syndromes taking root include living stress and factors associated with lack of rest, work pressure and stress of work schedule, mental peace and pleasure, etc. In the modern life style we are more habituated with junk foods and pre-packaged processed food stuff that are nutritionally poor in value and harmful for our organic process of metabolism or digestion. Naturally food habit devoid in essential minerals or proteins can cause the hair cells to suffer from lack of essential nourishment and corresponds to accelerated rate of hair fall. Secondly, all present study into the causes of hair fall linked the stress factors or factors associated with lack of sufficient rest with the hair fall or ill health of hair cells and in this respect stress and lack of rest can be sited as one of the major causes of hair fall.