| So many men go bald and nearly all women seem | | | | loss. There are certain medications, the use |
| to have heads full of hair. The question, | | | | of which may also result in hair loss. But in |
| naturally is if baldness discriminates on the | | | | such cases hair loss is gradual. |
| basis of gender. That would be grossly | | | | |
| unfair. Well, it would be unfair but the fact | | | | Malnutrition and a dysfunctional endocrine |
| is even women suffer from hair loss. And if | | | | system have also been found to trigger a slow |
| there is something that goes by the | | | | hair loss. |
| expression 'male pattern baldness', there is | | | | |
| also a thing called 'female pattern | | | | Fungal infections can also cause hair loss. |
| baldness'. | | | | These fungal infections are chronic bacterial |
| | | | attacks or a result of the presence of |
| Of course, there is no denying the fact that | | | | ringworms. |
| baldness is more prevalent and more apparent | | | | |
| in males than in females. However, women | | | | Chemotherapy tends to destroy all the rapidly |
| suffer more than men when they sense that | | | | developing cells including the hair |
| they are losing hair at an abnormal pace | | | | follicles, as they also consist of active |
| because females tend to attach a great deal | | | | cells. The baldness thus caused is not |
| of importance to the quality and quantity of | | | | temporary but total. |
| hair. And why shouldn't it be, given the fact | | | | |
| that hair are an integral part of feminine | | | | A condition called Alopecia universalis also |
| charm. | | | | causes permanent loss of body hair including |
| | | | those on the head and those that form the |
| In some cases, female baldness can be | | | | eyelashes and eyebrows. The causes of the |
| hereditary. Mostly, menopause brings hair | | | | ailment is not fully known and the research |
| loss in women, which is determined by one's | | | | is on in this area. |
| genetic heritage. In other words, if a female | | | | |
| loses hair in menopausal stage, it is because | | | | What is quite apparent is a fact that female |
| her mother too suffered from hair loss at | | | | hair loss does not set in early phase of life |
| that particular stage of her life. | | | | unless there are some other reasons for it, |
| | | | like some ailment or malnutrition. So, no |
| Another cause for female baldness are certain | | | | cause for beauty-worries for the young ladies |
| ailments, especially those that come with | | | | and for the relatively older ones, too. |
| extended bouts of high fever. Among them are | | | | Things are pretty much bright unless the |
| typhoid fever and scarlet fever. Such fevers | | | | genes are unfavourable. |
| are a medically established cause of hair | | | | |