Hair loss for women differs from hair loss in men, both in appearance and the underlying causes of the problem.
For men, DHT is usually behind hair loss, while for women the situation is much more complex. The fact that women suffer from hair loss is often a combination of several things.
If you feel you’ve started losing more hair than usual lately, we can help – and it all starts with a free consultation.
Hereditary hair loss
The most common reason why women suffer from hair loss is that it’s in the genes.
Heredity can skip a few generations, so just because you carry the genetics for hair loss doesn’t mean you’ll definitely get thin hair.
Some people have encoded in their genes that hair loss should start at a young age. Regardless, there are very good opportunities for treatment if it is started in time.
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Stress
If you’ve been under a lot of stress for a long time, have symptoms of exhaustion, or have been through physical or psychological trauma, your body often reacts by shutting down hair production.
However, the hair remains on the head during the stressful period. Therefore, it is difficult to make the connection to the stressful period itself.
Up to 6 months after the hair has been put into a resting phase, it falls off and then you can lose a lot of hair in a short time.
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Thyroid gland
The thyroid gland is a small gland located at the front of the throat. It is one of the body’s most important glands and has a major impact on the body’s general condition, including the quality of hair and skin.
Through the production of the hormones T-3 and T-4, the thyroid gland controls important bodily functions such as metabolism, calorie burning, body temperature and heart rate.
Thyroid problems affect women far more often than men.
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Diseases
There are many hair diseases that lead to hair loss or bald patches on the head. Some diseases are easy to cure while others can only be slowed down as there is no permanent cure.
Some severe fevers or infections also trigger hair loss. These are classed as a physical stress on the body and then the hair loss can come several months after that period of illness.
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Nutrition deficency
In women, iron deficiency is often a cause of hair loss. Usually this is due to an overly unbalanced diet or heavy menstrual periods.
However, it is difficult to determine whether it is precisely because of iron deficiency that you are losing hair.
Read more about iron deficiency and hair lossHORMONAL CAUSES
Female hair loss usually begins at menopause when the amount of estrogen in the body decreases. Estrogen affects many organs in the body and the new hormone levels can affect hair growth. Medicating with estrogen alone usually does not make the hair loss reversible.
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Some women experience hair loss and hair loss associated with birth control pills. This hair loss can usually be linked to when there is a change of birth control pills with a different hormonal composition than those that have been taken before.
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During a pregnancy, many people can experience that the hair grows very well. This is because the body produces a lot of hormones during pregnancy. After giving birth, when you can experience hair loss as a woman, the body tries to return to its normal hormone production and you then experience that you lose a lot of hair.
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No, we do not offer PRP treatments to pregnant or breastfeeding women.
With our PRP treatment, you can strengthen your hair follicles and get your hair growing again. However, it is not possible to revive dead hair follicles caused by pregnancy.
First of all, it is important to determine the cause of your hair loss.
If you lose hair due to stress or vitamin deficiency, the main solution is to remedy this first. To accelerate hair growth and slow down your hair loss, our PRP treatment is an effective solution.
We recommend that you come in for a free consultationso that we can find the best solution for you.
It is common for women to start losing hair at menopause. The hormonal imbalance can cause the body to react by letting the hair fall out.
The reduced amount of estrogen affects many organs in the body and it can also affect hair growth. A good solution for hair loss linked to menopause is PRP treatment.
With PRP, we extract the body’s own growth factors, called platelets, which we then inject into the scalp.
The growth factors enlarge the size of the hair follicle, which is often shrunken and has been for a long time (if the hair loss has been going on for a long time). As the size of the hair follicle increases, the hair follicle is able to start producing a hair again of better and stronger quality.
In this way, the treatment can effectively prevent hair loss.
