Stopping and Coping with Hair loss
- By Mike Hughes
- Published March 9th, 2009
- Hair Care
- Unrated
Hair loss, or hair shedding can be very traumatic. Other people can easily tell you "it's just hair," or "it's just temporary", but it certainly doesn't feel that way when you have hair all over your clothes. It's also torturous to watch as your hair looks thinner and thinner. This article provides some tips to help you cope with and hopefully lessen the shedding.
Find And Treat Your Trigger: Some hair shedding is caused by a trigger that happens in your life or your body. Severe stress or illness, pregnancy or giving birth, hormonal imbalances, stopping and starting medications, scalp issues, and surgery can cause hair shedding approximately three months after the event. In some cases (like pregnancy or giving birth), there's really nothing that you can do but support a healthy scalp and wait for this to pass.
However, in cases where there are scalp or skin issues, or hormonal imbalannce, sometimes addressing and fixing these things can stop or slow the shedding.
Lessening Inflammation, Supporting A Healthy Scalp: Even though many people will worry about the semantics or whether they have temporary shedding or genetic shedding, some of the best treatments for both are similar.
It's very important that you keep your scalp clean, stimulated, and free of clogging. It's so tempting to cut back on your hair washing when you're shedding, but you
really shouldn't. If you do, you can get an unhealthy clogging build up on your scalp that can make the problem worse.
Try to wash with very gentle shampoos and add natural anti inflammatories like tea tree or emu oil. You can rinse with apple cider vinegar to cut down on build up. But, it's important to make change sin your regimen from time to time because your hair and scalp can get used to the same thing over and over. And continuing anything over time can cause a build up.
Coping With The Sheddin: While you're waiting for the shedding to stop, there are some things you can do to support yourself. As tempting as it is, you should never count your hairs. Counting will only raise your anxiety.
Wear the appropriate colored clothes. When hair are falling all over and people are picking them off and noticing the loss, it can get embarrassing and be a constant reminder of something you'd rather forget. If your hair is dark, wearing a white shirt is a strict no-no.
Get a cordless vacuum. This helps because looking at all of the hair on the floor is depressing and a constant reminder of what you are going through. I got a cordless vacuum and ran it once per day. This helped remove the unsightly reminder of all of the hair that was winding up on the floor.
Be kind and patient with yourself. It's important not to obsess about hair loss. The key is to concentrate on other things that make you happy and to take your mind off of this.
Remind Yourself that hair shedding may just pass. Never give up hope and keep trying different things until you see success.
Find And Treat Your Trigger: Some hair shedding is caused by a trigger that happens in your life or your body. Severe stress or illness, pregnancy or giving birth, hormonal imbalances, stopping and starting medications, scalp issues, and surgery can cause hair shedding approximately three months after the event. In some cases (like pregnancy or giving birth), there's really nothing that you can do but support a healthy scalp and wait for this to pass.
However, in cases where there are scalp or skin issues, or hormonal imbalannce, sometimes addressing and fixing these things can stop or slow the shedding.
Lessening Inflammation, Supporting A Healthy Scalp: Even though many people will worry about the semantics or whether they have temporary shedding or genetic shedding, some of the best treatments for both are similar.
It's very important that you keep your scalp clean, stimulated, and free of clogging. It's so tempting to cut back on your hair washing when you're shedding, but you
Try to wash with very gentle shampoos and add natural anti inflammatories like tea tree or emu oil. You can rinse with apple cider vinegar to cut down on build up. But, it's important to make change sin your regimen from time to time because your hair and scalp can get used to the same thing over and over. And continuing anything over time can cause a build up.
Coping With The Sheddin: While you're waiting for the shedding to stop, there are some things you can do to support yourself. As tempting as it is, you should never count your hairs. Counting will only raise your anxiety.
Wear the appropriate colored clothes. When hair are falling all over and people are picking them off and noticing the loss, it can get embarrassing and be a constant reminder of something you'd rather forget. If your hair is dark, wearing a white shirt is a strict no-no.
Get a cordless vacuum. This helps because looking at all of the hair on the floor is depressing and a constant reminder of what you are going through. I got a cordless vacuum and ran it once per day. This helped remove the unsightly reminder of all of the hair that was winding up on the floor.
Be kind and patient with yourself. It's important not to obsess about hair loss. The key is to concentrate on other things that make you happy and to take your mind off of this.
Remind Yourself that hair shedding may just pass. Never give up hope and keep trying different things until you see success.