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The Various Causes of Hair Loss
During their growth cycle, hairs grow, live and die. Dead hairs fall and are replaced by new ones. Hair loss amounting to 20 to 75 hairs per day is considered normal.
A number of medications or medical treatments can cause hair loss, including chemotherapy, anticoagulants, androgens (that can be found in steroids), androgenic progestatives, lithium, antidepressants, neuroleptic drugs, antiepileptic drugs, antialdosterone, synthetic antithyroid drugs, and cortisone derivates.
Certain dietary deficiencies can also be responsible for baldness: iron deficit (causes by pregnancy, nursing, chronic bleedings, etc.) malnutrition or undernutrition (because of a particular economic of social background or caused by excessive dieting or anorexia).
A number of endocrine diseases can also be in cause – First among them: hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, or less frequently; hypopituitarism or hyperprolactinemia (disorders affecting the hypophysis) and absolute or temporary (menopause) excess of androgens.
Conclusion
Androgenetic alopecia is the most frequent type of baldness. The most common occurrence of this type of baldness in men is a loss of hair at the top of the head with normal hair remaining on the sides and at the back of the head. Male hormones are the likely culprits as they seem to specifically target certain zones of hair on the head. The actual cause of alopecia is still unknown.
