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Medical ReferenceRelated to Hair Loss

21. Alopecia Areata - Cause
    
    Excessive hair loss (more than 100 hairs a day) can be caused by inherited factors, disease, stress, medications, injury, aging, or hair care.
    
22. Alopecia Areata - Topic Overview
    
    Medicines and medical treatments can cause hair loss. Medicines Many medicines that can cause hair loss include: Medicines used to treat cancer ( chemotherapy ). Birth control pills. Women who lose hair while taking birth control pills usually have an inherited tendency toward hair thinning. If hair thinning occurs,a woman can consult her doctor about switching to another birth control pill ...
    
23. Alopecia Areata - What Happens
    
    What happens in hair loss depends on its cause -- whether it is inherited or not.
    
24. Alopecia Areata - Symptoms
    
    Hair loss can occur as thinning, in which you may not notice hair falling out, or as shedding, in which clumps of hair fall out.
    
25. Alopecia Areata - Health Tools
    
    This health tool will help you make wise health decisions or take action regarding hair loss medications.
    
26. Hair Transplant Surgery
    
    Hair transplantation surgery involves moving scalp hair and hair follicles from an area with a lot of hair to an area with thinning hair or baldness.
    
27. Alopecia Areata - Topic Overview
    
    Alopecia areata is hair loss caused when the immune system attacks hair follicles,where hair growth begins. Contact immunotherapy is an experimental therapy that may be the most effective treatment for severe alopecia areata. 1 A common medicine used is diphenylcyclopropenone (DPCP). DPCP,a liquid,is "painted" on the scalp once a week. The concentration of the solution is increased at ...
    
28. Alopecia Areata - Topic Overview
    
    Is hair loss normal? Get the facts.
    
29. Alopecia Areata - Topic Overview
    
    Hair loss may occasionally be caused by lack of protein in the diet. Some people who go on crash diets that exclude protein or who have abnormal eating habits may develop protein malnutrition. When this happens,the body will help save protein by shifting growing hairs into the resting phase. Increased hair shedding can occur 2 to 3 months later. This condition can be reversed and prevented ...
    
30. Alopecia Areata - Surgery
    
    Surgery to cover bald areas of the scalp may be used to treat hair loss. If successful, surgery may be a permanent treatment for hair loss.