3 effective ways to treat hair loss

• October 11, 2019

If you suddenly notice that your hair is falling, or that your part seems wider than normal, don’t panic.
Your hair goes through many changes from season to season, from work stress, from pregnancy, maybe from over-styling or simply ageing. This condition affects millions of men and women, and although it is quite common it can take a toll on a person’s confidence.
Whatever the cause, even if it might seems serious, start exploring your options and talk to your dermatologist about the symptoms, to quickly define the cause and the solution.

What can we do?
According to Dr. Costi, hair loss and hair thinning might be the symptom of hormone irregularities, thyroid irregularities, lupus, anemia or alopecia.
Fortunately, there are a number of shampoos and treatments made with ingredients to help encourage and strengthen regrowth.

1.Topical applications
Shampoos that moisturize the scalp can create a healthy environment for hair regrowth. Anti-dandruff shampoos contain zinc pyrithione (ZPT), an ingredient that removes dead skin cells that could be preventing growth. Furthermore, keratin protein shampoos and creams have proved to repair brittle hair, thus strengthening it.
There are also hormone blocking shampoos that work on blocking the DHT hormone which causes hairs to shrink. DHT is a hormone that causes a shortening of the growth phase and an increase in the resting phase of hair growth.
Of course you’ve also heard of Rogain, and the main active ingredient in it is Minoxidil. This foaming topical application of Minoxidil is the only ingredient to have been found to enhance the size of the hair follicle, producing a bigger strand of hair. However, it works to improve minor hair loss cases.

2. Injections
Routine blood work can test your ferritin (iron stored in the blood), copper and vitamin D levels. Low levels can lead to hair loss, and the solution may be as simple eating more iron-rich foods or adding a vitamin D supplement to your routine.
What’s more, once your blood levels are satisfactory, you can start a PRP treatment.
Platelet Rich Plasma injections will inject a serum made with your own blood into your scalp, stimulating your scalp and inducing hair growth.
Depending on your case, Dr. Costi might also recommend hormone injections. They hurt, but they can prove effective. Injecting cortisone directly into the scalp blocks the hormonal activity that induces hair thinning. This works especially well in patients with inflammatory scalp disease.

3. Supplements
Eating a nutrient-rich diet can keep your hair healthy too. To ensure you get the most nutritional bang for your buck, load up on foods that fight hair loss with these nutrients, like lean meats, leafy greens, nuts, beans, sweet potatoes, and fish.
But while we know you won’t get enough nutrients from just your food, a supplement is very well recommended to help your strands grow stronger.
Vitamin C, zinc, keratin protein and copper in supplements encourages the body to produce healthier, thicker strands as per Dr. Costi.
A supplement will use highly concentrated to address every stage of the hair growth cycle, which is excellent to support and maintain lustrous hair. It will help you fight free radicals that damage hair follicles.
You can also take a biotin supplement alone, which helps the body break down fats and carbohydrates to grow stronger strands.

In the end? The best solution?
Prevention is the best solution. In order to prevent hair loss, pay attention to your general health, as well as your hair. Poor diet and smoking, just as they affect your skin’s condition, directly affect your hair’s health.
So start early: eat healthy, take a daily supplement, and treat your hair with kindness!
If you’re good to your hair, it will be good to you.