Hair loss is condition affecting many people which there is defoliation of various bodily parts but the most visible of these areas is usually the scalp. Hair loss most often develops progressively and may be in the form of scattered patches or diffuse. Out of the more than one hundred thousand (100,000) hairs on the average head, you lose more or less a hundred each day.

Each individual hair follicle lasts for around four to five years wherein they usually grow at a rate of about half an inch a month. During a hair’s fifth year, it simply falls out on its own and within six months a new one is ready to take its place. Genetic baldness due to hair loss is usually due to the body’s inability to make new hairs grow when the old ones fall out and not because of extreme falling out of hair.

However, excessive hair loss leading to baldness is not very often caused by disease but is most often due to aging, heredity and a lack of testosterone.

Because of this, it is important to be able to distinguish the difference between hair loss due to normal factors or hair loss that could be part of a group of symptoms for a specific disease.
You should contact your local health professional if:

Hair loss is associated with pain, itching.

Hair loss occurs in a non-typical pattern.

Hair loss is not limited to the scalp alone but also to the eyebrows, beard or other body parts.

Hair loss occurs rapidly.

Hair loss occurs at a very young age.

Hair loss experienced is in the form of male pattern baldness and the one afflicted is a woman.

Hair loss is accompanied by unusual and rapid weight gain, weakness, and a sudden intolerance to extremes of temperatures.

Hair loss is accompanied by fatigue.