What Every Woman Needs to Know about Hair Loss

WHAT EVERY WOMAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT HAIR LOSS HAIR LOSS STATISTICS 40% MOST PEOPLE LOSE 50-100 HAIRS every day OF AMERICANS who lose their hair are WOMEN ABOUT 30 QMILLION AMERICAN WOMEN experience hair loss 80% OF WOMEN will have noticeable hair loss by AGE 60 CAUSES OF FEMALE HAIR LOSS ANDROGENIC ALOPEČIA The most common cause of female hair loss THINNING GENETIC USUALLY CONDITION starts behind the bangs that can be inherited from and may spread to the your mother or father's side rest of the scalp TELOGEN EFFLUVIUM Often occurs after pregnancy, surgery, significant weight loss, or excess stress HAIR LOSS IS USUALLY CAN ALSO BE A side effect of certain medications, including anti-depressants noticeable 6 weeks to 3 months after the stressful event HYPOTHYROIDISM Too little thyroid hormone causes symptoms such as fatigue, depression, and weight gain 10 TIMES MAY MORE CAUSE women than men hair and nails to become brittle and break have the condition POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME Caused by a hormone imbalance that results in high levels of male hormones AFFECTS OFTEN results in hair loss on as many as 5 million American women the scalp but an increase of hair in other places on the body WHAT TO DO ABOUT FEMALE HAIR LOSS HAIR TRANSPLANT A NATURAL- REQUIRES THE SAME ALMOST 100% LOOKING successful when solution care as your natural hair once it's fully correctly performed grown MINOXIDIL SIGNIFICANT IS ONLY REQUIRES somewhat effective on certain parts of constant use since improvements occur only about 10% of the time stopping the medication will result in new hairs the head falling out INFOGRAPHIC PROVIDED BY DR. KIELY, MD HAIR TRANSPLANT SURGEON wwW.HAIRTRANSPLANTDC.COM Sources: http://www.hairtransplantation.com/faq.html http://www.wobmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/features/women-hair-loss-causes http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/reasons-losing-hair/story?id-13320129&singlePage-true http://www.americanhairloss.org/women_hair loss/causes of hair loss.asp http://www.americanhairloss.org/women hair loss/ http://www.aad.org/media-resources/stats-and-facts/conditions/hair-loss http://www.statisticbrain.com/hair-loss-statistics/