When to be worried about hair loss

When you find excessive hair when you brush or shower over an extended period of time, or find bald patches, or notice that the density of your hair gas drastically changed. This is when you need to take action. Either go to a reputable hairdresser, your doctor, trichologist or dermatologist depending on how extreme your hair loss is.

There are many forms of hair loss.

Alopecia areata, trichotillomania, male and female pattern baldness, scarring alopecia.

This is why you need to find a specialist to identify the type of hairloss and hopefully be able to get to the root cause of your hairloss.

Causes of hairloss can be heredity, stress related, having a high fever, hormonal, autoimmune diseases like lupus and thyroid problems, medication induced hairloss, chemotherapy and radiotherapy or trichotillomania which is pulling out your own hair.