Prevention &Treatment of Hair

By: Dr. Harman Izzat, 2009

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis, or skin. Hair grows on human skin except palms and soles. Old hair cells pushed out through skin. Average hair loss 100-150 hair strands per day. It's characterized by general thin-ning over the entire scalp, with the most extensive hair loss at the crown. Alarming hair loss starts if it exceed 150 hair strands per day.
Symptoms of hair fall include hair loss in patches usually in circular patterns, dandruff, skin lesions, and scarring. In male-pattern hair loss, loss and thin-ning begin at the temples and the crown and either thins out or falls out. Female-pattern hair loss occurs at the frontal and parietal. The first signs of hair thinning that people will often notice are more hairs than usual left in the hairbrush after brush-ing or in the basin after sham-pooing.
Risk Factors for Hair Loss:
Stress
• Hormones
• Nutritional deficiencies (vit d3,vit b 12,iron, biotin)
• Infections
• Pregnancy
• Over styling
• Medications
• Burns
• Injuries
• x-rays
• Gene
• Autoimmune disease
• Stress, illness, and childbirth drugs

• Cosmetic procedures

Preventive Hair Treatment:
• Hair care begins with the right cleaning regiment.
• Avoid harsh shampoos and conditioners that contain sulphates and alcohol.
• Use gentle topical hair prod-ucts that are specifically for-mulated for your hair types.
• Brushing too hard or too long causes broken and damaged hair.
• Comb your hair two times a day and never brush it when it is wet.
• Avoid hair dryers, curlers, coloring etc.
• Extreme dieting can cause hair loss.
• Vitamin deficiencies can make hair thin, brittle, dry and flaky scalp.
• Consume healthy diet rich in minerals and vitamins (zinc, biotin, vitamin c, iron, vita-min d, proteins).
Five Best Treatments For Hair And Scalp
• Platelet-Rich Plasma
• Hair Mesotherapy
• Low Light Laser Therapy
• Hair Transplant
• Medication
In Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy a person's blood is drawn, pro-cessed, and injected into the scalp.

injections trigger natural hair growth and keep it by increasing blood flow to the hair follicles which eventually results in the thickening of hair.
In Hair Mesotherapy a person get injections of vitamins, miner-als, and amino acid cocktails that are necessary for hair growth into the scalp. Mesotherapy for hair controls the micro-inflammation that's around the hair follicles, which is responsible for hair fall, by this way it manages to stop hair loss.
Low Light Laser Hair Therapy which is a modern non-surgical hair loss treatment that uses laser light to stimulate cell growth and supercharge hair follicles.
Hair Transplant has 2 types:
1. Follicular unit extraction: strip of skin with hair follicles is removed from the back of the scalp. The hair follicles are then removed from the strip of skin and placed into the recipient site
2. Follicular unit transplant: similar to the other method, individual hair follicles are removed from the back of the scalp without removing a strip of skin. The hair follicles are then inserted into the re-cipient site.