When I decided to dye my hair blonde a few years ago, I anticipated a few lifestyle changes — I wondered if I would have ‘more fun’, and I knew that I would have a lot more up keep of my hair with various blonde/purple shampoos to keep it looking brassy and plenty of treatments to keep it soft and reduce hair breakage. However, I didn’t anticipate having my hair fall out. Yet there I was, one year into my life as a bleach addict, staring down a shower drain full of hair that belonged on my head, wondering what was causing my hair loss.
Of course, I immediately started crying, like any mature and rational adult would (?!?!), while stroking my remaining hair as if it were an injured kitten. But if I had hopped on the Internet, I would have seen that I was far from alone — though as a culture we’re loathe to discuss it, many women lose their hair at different times in their lives, for all sorts of reasons. It’s a lot more common than we think. It’s understood that in Australia there are about 2.2 million women who suffer from hair loss.
According to the Mayo Clinic’s website, the average person loses between 50 and 100 hairs a day, regardless of what else is going on in our lives. A wide variety of issues, from autoimmune diseases to poorly-considered styling decisions, can make our hair fall out at a more alarming rate. In fact, the American Hair Loss Association says that women make up 40 percent of those struggling with hair loss.
The good news is that most conditions that cause hair loss are temporary or can be improved with treatment or with a cosmetic product like BioTHIK; but the even better news is that we can make the experience of being a woman dealing with hair loss of any sort less stressful by talking about it. It happens to many of us, and there’s nothing shameful about it. Simply because most of the time it’s not your fault, most hair loss is the result of genetic and hormonal reasons that a ‘programmed’ into our DNA. This form of hair loss is known as Androgenetic Alopecia, commonly known as female pattern hair thinning.
So what are some of the causes of women’s hair loss.
For some women, birth control pills actually cause their hair to grow at a faster rate; but for others, hormonal birth control can lead to thinner hair. According to the American Hair Loss Association, “Women who are predisposed to hormonal related hair loss or who are hypersensitive to the hormonal changes taking place in their bodies can experience hair loss to varying degrees while on the pill or more commonly, several weeks or months after stopping the pill.”
Is There Treatment Available?: Since birth control pill-related hair loss is related to the hormonal make-up of your specific pill, switching pills or using another form of birth control will typically end the hair loss. So if you think you might be experiencing pill-related hair loss, make an appointment with your gyno to chat about your options — you deserve to be able to keep your ute baby-free while still keeping your hair attached sturdily to your head.
Who knew that so many things related to your vagina also impacted your hair? Many women experience postpartum hair loss, it’s a sudden shedding (sometimes in clumps) that many new mothers experience between three and six months after they give birth. You know, just in case dealing with a newborn wasn’t fun enough, right?
But look on the bright side: you’re actually not really losing extra hair at all. Rather, certain pregnancy hormones keep expectant mothers from shedding those 50-100 hairs that the rest of us lose every day. Once your hormones drop back to their pre-pregnancy levels, those extra hairs begin to bite the dust — but you’re just losing the extras, so there’s nothing to be concerned about.
Is There Treatment Available?: The best treatment here is time — your hair density should return to roughly pre-pregnancy levels a few months after giving birth (it may take longer if you’re breastfeeding).
Sometimes, stuff that makes our lives better in the long run can complicate things in the short term — like the number of medications used to treat depression, arthritis, cancer, heart problems, and other health issues that can sometimes have hair loss as a side effect.
Is There Treatment Available?: If you think you’re losing your hair due to medications, talk to your doctor — they may be able to tweak your prescription or prescribe a different med that won’t have the same side effects.
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Birth Control Pills can cause female hair loss

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Childbirth often causes Post Partum Hair loss

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Thyroid Conditions can cause hair loss
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Certain kinds of hair styling cause hair loss
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Extreme stress causes hair loss
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Vitamin Deficiencies can cause Hair Loss
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Certain Medications can cause hair loss

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Lupus often causes hair loss
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Genetics is the most common cause of women’s hair loss