Contents:
- Medical Video: Hair Loss - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Options
- Get to know psychosocial stress and its impact on baldness
- How can stress cause baldness?
- Alopecia areata
- Telogen effluvium
- Trichotillomania
- How to prevent bald hair when stressed?
Medical Video: Hair Loss - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Options
Hair loss is a worrying thing. Especially if the loss that occurs makes you experience baldness. Well, many suspect that stress can inhibit hair growth so you can experience baldness. How can stress make bald hair? Here's the full explanation.
Get to know psychosocial stress and its impact on baldness
Psychosocial stress is reported to have an important role in the occurrence of baldness. According to one study, the number of patients with stress-induced baldness was 6.7 to 96 percent.
Well, psychosocial stress itself occurs when you feel a threat from your own social environment. For example, when you feel very depressed with the success of your work colleagues in the office so you become inferior and worse. Or when you feel abandoned by friends who often go together without inviting you.
This type of stress is usually very impact on health. Because psychosocial stress makes sufferers feel isolated, lonely, and there is no support. One of the effects on health is that it causes bald hair to fall out.
How can stress cause baldness?
There are three types of baldness that can be caused by excessive stress. Furthermore, regarding the three types of baldness, please refer to the information below.
Alopecia areata
Alopecia areata (baldness) is a process of inflammation or autoimmune disease that arises with hair loss. Many factors that affect baldness include autoimmune, genetic, emotional, and environmental diseases.
Alopecia areata attacks the scalp, but areas of the body filled with hair can also be affected by this problem. The hair loss that occurs is usually a circular pattern and is progressive, it can also cause baldness in the entire head area (alopecia totalis) Although the cause is still unclear, several studies say there is a relationship between stress and alopecia areata.
Telogen effluvium
One of the most stressful causes of hair loss is through telogen effluvium. Normally, you will lose about one hundred hairs a day. But stress can cause more hair loss than they should. Well, unnatural hair loss is also called the term telogen effluvium.
Your hair normally grows in a cycle. In the active phase, hair grows in several years. After the active phase, your hair enters the resting phase. This resting phase lasts approximately three months after your hair falls out. On average, normal hair loss is around 100 hairs per day. The hair will then be replaced in six months by new hair.
When your body is under stress or you feel a negative emotional turmoil, your hair will fall out more easily. When stressed, most of your hair will go into the resting phase before it's time. And three months later, the hair will fall out.
Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania is a habit because of stress and anxiety where someone will pull his hair unnoticed. This can damage the hair and cause bald hair because it is pulled too often.
How to prevent bald hair when stressed?
Simple lifestyle changes can help reduce baldness. For example by getting enough sleep (approximately 7 hours), drinking lots of mineral water, and eating foods rich in protein.
Nutrition is an important thing for hair growth. The relationship between food and hair is very close. Hair is made of a protein called keratin. So, you should increase protein intake.
The lack of protein consumption forces your body to store proteins that exist for other purposes, such as forming cells. It is believed that spinach, beans, tofu and milk are good foods for hair health. Green tea is also good for inhibiting Dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a hormone that causes hair loss.
