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WHAT IS HAIR LOSS? HERE ARE THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT
Causes of hair loss can depend on the person, society, genetic factors, nutrition, drug use, age, sex, Care. Causes of hair loss include seasonal changes, stress, iron deficiency, and hormone disorders. But long-term hair loss can also be one of the symptoms of serious diseases. Now let’s look at the causes of hair loss and how to prevent hair loss…
Hair loss, in which 1 out of every 5 women and 25 percent of men in society suffer, is a preventable problem if it is correctly detected.
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WHAT IS HAIR LOSS?
The life of a hair strand is 4-6 years, and a healthy scalp has an average of 100 thousand pieces of hair. An average of 100-150 pieces of hair loss per day in adults is considered normal. Hair loss is repeated 3 times a year, which can last for 2 months in a healthy person. Care should be taken if the shedding lasts more than 2 months. Hair loss, hormonal and nutritional factors, exposure to chemicals, genetic predisposition, systemic diseases and disorders of hair development, medications, and psychological stress may have very different reasons for scalp diseases depending on.
Hair loss usually begins 3-4 months after the trigger factor and these factors can return to normal 6-12 months after treatment.
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CAUSES OF HAIR LOSS
Every available strand of hair has a life cycle. Each strand of hair lives for 4 to 6 years, then rests and then falls out. Hair loss can be very different causes. It is important that this cause is identified and appropriate treatment is performed.
1- GENETIC FACTORS
Hair loss occurs for reasons in women and men. Male-type hormone-sensitive hair loss, which is usually genetic in men and seen in more than 50% of society, is chronic. As age progresses, a condition of baldness occurs.
Although this type of hair loss is also seen in women, especially people with baldness problems in their family face the risk of hair loss. Currently, young girls experience more hair loss in boys aged 16-18 years. The causes of this condition are excessive stress, unbalanced diet, long-term starvation and hormonal problems.
What causes hair loss? How is hair loss prevented?
2- SKIN PROBLEMS
Skin and internal diseases are also causative causes of hair loss. Hair loss occurs when diseases that hold the skin affect the scalp. For example, psoriasis, eczema, acne, lichen disease, over-lubricated skin, fungal diseases.
3- IMPROPER NUTRITION
Because hair is a living organ, it needs to be nourished and revived. Causes associated with nutrition are factors in hair loss. Lack of a regular and balanced diet, long-term hunger, a uniform diet, and excessive consumption of carbohydrate foods are factors that affect hair.
4- LACK OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS
Although a balanced and regular diet, people who lose hair are missing vitamins and minarels necessary for hair in the blood is another reason for hair loss. If a person is low in vitamins and minerals such as B 12, vitamin D, folic acid, biotin, zinc, iron, the hair cannot be fed enough and falls out.
5- HORMONAL CAUSES
If a person experiences hormonal problems, i.e., menstrual delays or irregularities, increased hair growth, excessive acne, acceleration in weight gain, hormonal hair loss can be mentioned if hair loss is added to it.
6- INTERNAL MEDICINE AND DRUG USE
Drugs for disorders or diseases of the thyroid gland, rheumatic diseases, used hormones, weight loss pills, adrenal gland diseases, insulin resistance, diabetes, birth control pills, control pills, the discontinuation of this hair to shed and sometimes for other reasons. A sudden hair loss, surgeries passed before the last three months, febrile diseases, drug toxicity, blood loss, severe trauma can also be considered among the reasons
7- BIRTH AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Apart from the above-mentioned causes, there are two other specific causes of spills. One is pospartum shedding caused by the sudden loss of hair that begins 2-3 months after birth and should be shed during pregnancy, but not shed all together.
Another cause is hair loss in patients receiving chemotherapy.
8- COSMIC FACTORS
Excessive use of cosmetic products by women causes mechanical chemical and physical hair loss. Hair loss is caused by damage to the hair from the outside by tight binding, inner bonnets, hair dryer processes exposed to excessive heat, hair color dyes, openers, straighteners.
9- SHEDDING DUE TO STRESS AND DEPRESSION
Currently, excessive stress is one of the other and most important causes that cause hair loss. In addition, depression, anxiety, drugs used to treat psychosis are among the factors that affect and cause hair loss.
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HAIR LOSS PREVENTION AND TREATMENT METHODS
In order to prevent hair loss, to make hair grow healthy and look alive, we can list what you need to do as follows:
- Do not diet unconsciously if you need to do so under the supervision of a doctor. Pay attention to a regular and balanced diet. Avoid consuming a lot of carbohydrate foods. Try to eat more protein.
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- Regular sleep is essential to prevent hair loss. Try to pay attention to your sleeping hours.
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- Stay away from stress.
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- Never forget how important vitamins are for nourishing and Revitalizing Hair. Consume foods containing zinc, B12, copper, folic acid.
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- You should not make a habit of smoking and alcohol use. You should stay away from both, if possible.
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- If you have a habit of eating in the style of “fast food”, which is one of the biggest problems of our time, quit immediately. Don’t miss antioxidant foods(vegetables and fruits) from your table.
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- If you care about your hair, do not use medications, masks and mixtures that are recommended for your hair health outside the control of a specialist.
A Normal number of hair loss (50-100 pieces per day) is normal. Be sure to contact a Turkish hair doctor specialist dermatologist as soon as possible in case of a condition that exceeds these limits.
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WHAT IS PERCUTANEOUS HAIR TRANSPLANTATION TECHNIQUE?
The technique, which we call percutaneous hair transplant technique, is a technology that is more aesthetic and faster to heal than others. Hair is again taken from the back, nape part, and after the hair taken from here is separated one by one, it is placed in the areas where hair transplantation will be performed with special needles, hair loss dermatologist doctor replied.
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Turkey's world-renowned organ transplant specialist. Dr. Demirbaş has 104 international publications and 102 national publications.
Physician's Resume:
Born on August 7, 1963 in Çorum, Prof. Dr. Alper Demirbaş has been continuing his work as the President of MedicalPark Antalya Hospital Organ Transplantation Center since 2008.
Prof. who performed the first tissue incompatible kidney transplant in Turkey, the first blood type incompatible kidney transplant, the first kidney-pancreas transplant program and the first cadaveric donor and live donor liver transplant in Antalya. Dr. As of August 2016, Alper Demirbaş has performed 4900 kidney transplants, 500 liver transplants and 95 pancreas transplants.
In addition to being the chairman of 6 national congresses, he has also been an invited speaker at 12 international and 65 national scientific congresses. Dr. Alper Demirbaş was married and the father of 1 girl and 1 boy.
Awards:
Eczacibasi Medical Award of 2002, Akdeniz University Service Award of 2005, Izder Medical Man of the Year Award of 2006, BÖHAK Medical Man of the Year Award of 2007, Sabah Mediterranean Newspaper Scientist of the Year Award of 2007, ANTIKAD Scientist of the Year Award of 2009, Social Ethics Association Award of 2010, Işık University Medical Man of the Year Award of 2015, VTV Antalya's Brand Value Award of 2015.
Certificates:
Doctor of Medicine Degree Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, General Surgeon Ministry of Health Turkey EKFMG (0-477-343-8), University of Miami School of Medicine Member of Multiple Organ Transplant, ASTS Multiorgan Transplant Scholarship. Lecturer at Kyoto University. Lecturer at University of Essen, Research assistant at the University of Cambridge .
Professional Members:
American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Transplantation Society Nominated, Middle East and Southern Africa Council Transplantation Society 2007, International Liver Transplantation Association, Turkish Transplantation Association, Turkish Society of Surgery, Turkish Hepatobiliary Surgery Association.
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