Hair Savers

The Two Main Types of Hair Loss

Hair loss can be bewildering because there are several different types. Basically they can be divided into two groups: the scalp disease alopecia areata, and the thinning hair of alopecia androgenetica. Both cause misery and heartache.

• Alopecia androgenetica - the make pattern baldness which has always plagued older men and to some extent also older women. But it now happens in many younger women.
• Thinning hair now affects more than one-third of all older women and, more worryingly, one in eight of all younger women
• Alopecia areata - the scalp disease which starts suddenly in patches and can become total. More men and women now face this severe and frightening loss. A leading American epidemiologist says that it now affects at leasst one in 100, and he predicts far more over the next five decades.

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