An overview
A disease, in simple words, is something that disrupts one’s health, mentally or physically and can be a matter of severe concern. Various diseases and conditions have been around for many centuries and will still be present in the years to some as well. There are also many new forms of diseases and conditions that are now making a debut in the world. All of them do seem to promise us a whole new meaning of pain and fear. Well, most of them can be cured and almost all of them can be avoided as well. In this article, the topic of main focus here is the diseases and conditions that cause hair loss.
What causes this problem?
Apart from a maintaining a poor diet, hormonal imbalance and even heredity, there are quite a few diseases and conditions that lead to a nightmarish hair loss scenario.
From all the multiple changes that are caused in your body due to kidney diseases, one of them is hair loss.
The use of chemotherapy can also be harmful. As surprising as it may be to know this, but chemotherapy is used to treat other problems in a way by dividing the healthy and cancer cells in our body, thus resulting in hair loss.
The very sensitive skin that you may have due to diabetes also can lead to hair loss. This disease and condition go hand in glove most of the time.
Other diseases and conditions are:
Polycystic ovarian syndrome, known as (PCOS)
Alopecia Areata- leads to the occurrence of patchy hair.
The inflammation of hair follicles anywhere on the skin is another form of disease known as Folliculitis.
Thanks to the advancement in technology, these diseases and conditions can be cured thus making life a little brighter and better. PHEW!! Hair transplants are another option to treat hair loss.