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Hairloss Diagnosis

What is hair loss?

Hair loss, or Alopecia, as is its scientific name, is a medical description for the loss of hair from the body, or, more commonly, the head. This can be caused by a variety of physical and mental ailments including the simple desire to pull out ones hair or more common causes such as excessive use of pony tailing or braiding. Some other known causes of hair loss have been traced to things such as over washing or shampooing, the over wearing of head gear or hats, and even under washing of hair. There are some studies saying that excess conditioning contributes as well, though this has never been fully proven.

Hairloss diagnosis

Most typically, hair loss or baldness is diagnosed based primarily on the appearance as well as the pattern of the loss of hair as well as a medical history of the individual and a look into the genetic structure of the family to see if baldness or hair loss has been known to occur in the family in question. It is also sometimes necessary to have a professional or dermatologist examine the scalp of the person in question to see if there is any problem within the hair follicles that would cause the unnatural loss of hair in a person without much if any history of hair loss in the family.

Examining the scalp is often the most vital step in prescribing some sort of treatment in the re-growth or stopping of the loss of hair. In some cases in which the problem is not readily available to a dermatologist, some clinics will recommend a very expensive and very technical biopsy of the scalp for a hair loss diagnosis. This can be done to see if there are any strange or unnatural factors contributing to the loss of hair. This sort of hair and scalp analysis searches for things such as scalp poisoning due to an excess of exposure to toxins such as arsenic or hard metals such as lead. However, this is rather rare and a scalp biopsy is only preformed on the rarest of occasions during hair loss diagnosis.