Three Types of Hair Loss Treatments

September 18th, 2009 by admin Leave a reply »

Millions of people around the globe have to cope with hair loss. Hair loss treatments are becoming more important as people realize the effect of hair loss. We can also call hair loss balding, and the explanations for balding are countless.

Though hair loss runs in the family, the scientists claim that now it can be cured by gene manipulation. Men with genetic predisposition for balding may have sensitive areas in the scalp for male sex hormones. As age advances, these sensitive areas suffer from serious biological imbalance. The male hormone DHT is the culprit that ruins the hair. Slowly, over a lengthened period, the follicles shrivel and eventually the hair becomes thinner and shorter.

Hair-loss can be treated with natural cures and also through chemotherapy. There are three kinds of hair loss treatment available for the people afflicted by this condition.

The first and most accepted balding treatment is the natural based treatment. The main advantage of having this kind of treatment is that there is no side effect.

Other treatments may damage existing hair, making a half-bald person a fully bald person. The cosmetically based lotions, shampoos and herbal additions help plenty of people afflicted by hair loss. Several patients who used these treatments feel that by employing these products, the regrowing of hair is definitely influenced.

The second type of product widely used is the topical solution. Rogaine is one of the frequently used topical solutions for hair loss treatment. The main ingredient in this product is Minoxodil. This ingredient has the ability of growing hair, which is medically proven.

At times, the Minoxodil is combined with Retin A for better treatment. However, this combination cannot be bought in drugstores.

The third kind of hair loss treatment broadly used among the balding people is oral treatment. Propecia is being taken orally by folk suffering from hair-loss.

The main action of Propecia is to lower the chemical levels in the body, thereby obstructing the expansion of hair. In several studies it was discovered that Propecia has hair-regrowing effect.

Thomas Choo
http://www.articlesbase.com/hair-loss-articles/three-types-of-hair-loss-treatments-742645.html

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3 comments

  1. sani says:

    I need your help please.Revise this for me please?
    The world population is being affected by one devastating disease called Cancer. Because of this disease so many children, adolescent, young and old people have died. Scientists have found different kind of treatment for cancer; however, it doesn’t work for everyone who is diagnosed by cancer. What makes this disease unique is that it has a treatment but doesn’t have any cure. And if I get a chance to invent one useful thing for humankind will be a Cure for cancer. Why I choose to invent the cure for cancer is because of these reasons: – death of family member because of cancer and people in the world being affected by cancer. This cure will give a chance for billions of people in the world to live a happy life.
    Cancer has knocked each and every ones house and from one of the houses was mine. I was born and raised in Addis Ababa (capital of Ethiopia) until I came to United States before three years ago. I was nurtured and raised by my grandmother; my grand mother was a strong woman, both emotionally and physically. She came to United States to visit my aunt; after a few days my grandma starts getting sick and when she visited a Doctor she was told that she was diagnosed with cancer. All the strength she had was lost once she knows she was diagnosis with cancer. The Doctors told her that it is to late to give her a treatment and the diagnosis have no cure. After suffering for more than six month my grandmother passed on April 6, 2006.This coincidence opened my eye to start researching about the disease and I keep asking my self how things would look like if there were a cure for it.
    Like my grandmother people in different age category surrender for cancer not because they are losers it is because they know that there is no CURE for it. All these problems that face the patient’s of Cancers can be elevate by my invention, which will cure all types of cancers. Imagine how the patients face and those who loves them would react when they find there is a CURE for cancer.
    If I could invent the cure for cancer it will have less physical effect. Some of the treatments used in these days cause a high physical affect. For example if we take chemotherapy it have different kind of effects like nausea, fatigue, loss of appetite, and depending on the type of chemo used the patient can also lose their hair. But my new invention could reduce some of the high physical effects.
    Things would not always be perfect as planed but experimenting and processing can make a progress. And for me being accepted by the University of Maryland: College Park can make a difference for every one in the world. And if I can invent the cure for cancer it will give a chance for billions of people in the world to live a happy life. . It is not what the world did for me but what will I do for my community and all around it.

  2. mamour says:

    Cancer has knocked each and every ones house and from one of the houses was mine.
    Cancer has knocked each and every one house’s and one of those houses was mine.
    humankind = mankind

    but three years before that…
    she was tod she had cancer ..
    once she knew …
    the Doctor told her it was too late

    (and the diagnosis have no cure?…. (NOT a good phrase)
    opened my eyes…
    some of the treatment have high physical effects
    chemotherapy has different effects such as: nausea
    it would not be a matter of what the World did for me, but what i could do for my community and around it.
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  3. wize woman says:

    Although the world population is being decimated by cancer–a disease that kills many people: children, adolescent, young and old people alike–the scientists have found no cure for it. Many different treatments for this disease exist; however, none works effectively in all cases, so there is no remedy. An effective cure would give a chance for billions of people in the world to have better lives, I believe.
    Given a chance, I would love to help the humanity; possibly, I would like to help to find a cure for cancer. I feel strongly about it ever since the death of my grandmother. I was born and raised in Addis Ababa (capital of Ethiopia) until I came to the United States, about three years ago. I was nurtured by my grandmother, a strong woman, both emotionally and physically.
    A few days after my grandma came to United States for a visit, she started to feel sick; the doctor diagnosed a cancer, and told her that there was too late for a treatment and no hope because a lack of cure. After suffering for more than six months, my grandmother passed on April 6, 2006. This incidence opened my eyes. The disease has affected almost every house in my area, and for sure, it did affected mine.
    I started researching the disease and I kept asking myself, ‘how the things would look like if there was a cure?’
    Like my grandmother, people in different age groups fall victims to cancer, and they give up, because they are told that there is no cure. I believe, that many people faced by the cancers would improve by the remedy itself and just by the knowledge that an effective cure does exist.
    Thus such a cure would have a physical and an emotional effect, hopefully without the negative side effects such as: nausea, fatigue, loss of appetite, or hair loss, for example.
    Thus even if not immediately perfect, any potential cure is better than none, and with a research, the improvement can come. I believe that by being accepted by the University of Maryland, I could help the team at College Park to make a difference. I feel that I can help to find a remedy for cancer that will help to improve lives of many people in the world.
    Good luck!
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