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Understanding the Vicissitudes of Female Pattern Hair Loss
While it is possible for women to sometimes exhibit male pattern baldness, most women fall prey to another kind of pattern. Female pattern hair loss is by no means 'kinder' to the person affected, but it's often preferable than complete hair loss.
1. Genetics, Once Again
If more than 95% of balding men have genetics to blame, we can say the same for women. In this regard, we can't really laugh at old people who have gone bald because there just might be a chance that we're heading in that direction, too. It's all a matter of time before the genetic switch activates itself, and the floodgates of balding are let loose.
Medical science has identified the female genetic predisposition to balding as female pattern hair loss. If you want a more technical term for it, this pattern is actually categorized as female androgenetic alopecia.
2. Menopause And Balding
While some men suffer from balding even before andropause (now a colloquial term that denotes the symptoms of advanced ageing in male), most women experience advanced hair loss after menopause.
Menopause is a phase in a woman's biological cycle when the ovaries stop producing eggs and the menstrual cycle ceases. This leads to a precipitous drop in estrogen and other hormones commonly associated with female youth. When the hormone levels drop, several common symptoms emerge from the woodwork that is postmenopausal syndrome.
Hot flashes, painful intercourse and balding are only a few of the painful and often discomfiting problems of menopause. Research in this field has steadily been improving in the past years. One of the main concerns in the treatment of symptoms of menopause is how to bring back the natural levels of female hormones in the body.
3. Differentiating Between Two Patterns Of Baldness
The main difference between male pattern baldness and female pattern baldness is the rate at which hair is progressively eliminated from the scalp. Men suffer from direct hair loss most of the time. That's why you'll see plenty of men who have bald spots but relatively long and robust hairs remaining.
It's another story for women. Sadly, while the scalp is still covered with hair, women have to deal with the difficulties of coping with shrinking hair. Miniaturized hair or shrunk hair is often frizzy and unkempt. Shorter than ordinary hair, miniaturized hair often resembles axillary (underarm) hair than normal hair.
4. Unstable And Often Discomfiting
What does miniaturization of hair tell us? Well for one, if the miniaturization is generalized (meaning, over a large area) then the body is actually undergoing a very unpredictable phase of hair loss.
It's unpredictable or unstable because hair is being shrunk by hormones as well as being shed off by the scalp. While some miniaturized hair is growing back, several sections of the scalp have increase hair fall.
If you wish to know more about female pattern hair loss, don't consult the Norwood Classification System. While it's true that you may have a male pattern component in your own balding, it's better to consult a more efficient patterning system. Visit your doctor and ask for a Ludwig Classification chart.
About the Author Brian Alexis is an online medical researcher on hair and skin. There are 14 effective hair loss treatment products on the market that work well. To learn more visit Brian's site: http://www.hairlosstreatment-s.com/ now.
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