1. What should I do if I often lose my hair?
Get up and wash your hair and see how much your hair has lost.
"Hair loss is not terrible. I've had enough. The key is to treat it in time and be good at maintaining the status quo. " This old man who is famous for treating alopecia in China is nearly eighty years old. Although he has white hair, his hair grows very thick. _ Guowei introduced that under normal circumstances, everyone will lose their hair, about 70~ 100 a day, but there are many more patients who fall. "There is an identification method. When you get up to wash your hair, you can see whether your hair is significantly less than before," _ Guowei said. If it lasts for two or three months, your hair will become sparse or appear patchy hair loss.
The most common alopecia in clinic is alopecia areata and seborrheic alopecia. "Alopecia areata patients regardless of age, seborrheic alopecia patients are mostly young people", _ Guowei said. In recent years, hair loss has become more and more common, especially for people in their twenties and thirties, and the youngest patient is even less than 20 years old. Patients in their twenties may have different degrees of hair loss. Some people's hair turns from thick to thin, from dense to thin, and some people have obvious local hair loss.
According to reports, the most common parts of male hair loss are the sides of the forehead and the top of the head, with a V-shaped hairline on the forehead or a Mediterranean-shaped "open space" on the top of the head. Adult women, especially after giving birth to children, in addition to the above two, the overall number of hair decreases and appears sparse.
Causes of hair loss
1, 70% or 80% of alopecia areata patients are liver and kidney deficiency.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, alopecia areata can be caused by liver and kidney deficiency, qi and blood deficiency, blood deficiency and wind dryness, liver depression and blood stasis, among which liver and kidney deficiency is the most common, accounting for about 70% to 80% of alopecia areata patients. Alopecia areata caused by liver and kidney deficiency can be traced back. "The patient's hair is yellow-gray at ordinary times. At the onset, large pieces of hair fall off evenly. In severe cases, even the whole body hair falls off, and even the eyebrows are bare. Some people have a family history of hair loss. " According to _ Guowei, these patients usually have weak waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, nocturnal emission, insomnia and dreaminess, and cold limbs.
2. Most female patients with alopecia areata are of qi and blood deficiency type. Especially after delivery, women show progressive alopecia. Hair loss is getting bigger and bigger, and the scalp is bright and soft. You can still see scattered residual hair in the hair loss area, but it will fall off with a light touch. At the same time, the patient will have white lips, palpitations, mental fatigue, shortness of breath, reticence, dizziness, drowsiness or insomnia. Some men will become this type of patients when they are seriously ill or sick for a long time.
In addition, alopecia areata with blood deficiency and wind dryness is characterized by sudden hair loss, sometimes itchy scalp, or fever, and patients are often upset and irritable. Individuals' eyebrows and beards all fall off. Before alopecia due to liver depression and blood stasis, there are symptoms such as headache, scalp tingling or chest pain, and patients often have nightmares, irritability, insomnia and anxiety. If it is serious, it will become completely bald.
How to treat alopecia?
It is too late to treat after the "open space" is formed.
"Liver and kidney deficiency accounts for about 20% of seborrheic alopecia, but it is very common among young people, the weak or mental workers, regardless of gender." _ Guowei said that the scalp is smooth, and there is a small amount of sparse, soft and short hair in the alopecia area, while people are often prone to dizziness, insomnia, poor memory and nocturia.
It is worth noting that there are far more alopecia patients in the Pearl River Delta region due to liver and kidney deficiency than in western Guangdong and northern Guangdong, which is not only related to parents' inheritance, but also related to people's fast pace of life, great mental stress and disorder of human regulation in this region.
However, from the situation in Guangdong, moist heat fumigation and hot air drying of blood are also common causes of seborrheic alopecia. Among them, moist heat fumigation accounts for 60%~70% of patients. Patients usually eat more fat, sweet, thick, greasy hair, more head oil, scalp flushing, dandruff, easy to itch, easy to be agitated. Patients with blood-heat dryness are characterized by dry hair, light brown hair, uniform shedding, more dandruff, dry mouth and yellow urine.
Hair loss should be treated symptomatically, for example, those with liver and kidney deficiency need to replenish liver and kidney, those with damp-heat fumigation need to clear heat, dry dampness and strengthen spleen, and those with blood and hot wind need to cool serum heat, dispel wind and moisten dryness. In the timing of treatment, don't wait until the hair follicle shrinks and forms a larger "open space" before treatment. The earlier the treatment, the better the effect.
How to prevent hair loss
Don't supplement ginseng
Wash your hair up to three times a week.
Because hair loss is related to diet and mental factors, _ Guowei particularly emphasized that mental adjustment and diet conditioning are also very important at the same time of drug treatment. First, relax and be happy; The second is to ensure adequate sleep and regular work and rest; Third, we should eat less sweet and greasy food, for example, don't eat ice cream in summer, don't touch alcohol and tobacco, and eat spicy food in moderation.
Some people think that people with soft, yellow and sparse hair are the most prone to hair loss. _ Guowei said that this kind of hair quality is largely related to heredity. Pay attention to conditioning, not necessarily hair loss. But if the hair is thick, dark and hard, and the hair quality changes suddenly, it is necessary to prevent hair loss. If you used to have a lot of hair, especially women, and your hair began to thin around the age of 25, you should pay special attention. Women should also pay attention to the change of hair when giving birth. "If they lose a lot, they should go to the hospital for treatment after giving birth."
Many alopecia patients often eat walnuts, sesame seeds, American ginseng and other tonics for nourishing yin and tonifying kidney. _ Guowei reminds that it is ok to make light supplements, but it is not suitable for eating indigestible foods such as too sweet and greasy, especially ginseng.
Pay attention to the daily care of hair.
Patients with alopecia should pay special attention to the daily care of their hair so as not to aggravate the injury. _ To introduce Guowei, we should pay attention to the following aspects:
First, don't wash your hair too often. Generally, indoor workers can wash it 2~3 times a week, unless they are patients such as construction workers who are exposed to dust, they need to wash it once a day.
Second, the water temperature of shampoo should not be too high or too low, generally 30℃ is enough. After washing your hair, you can't blow it too dry with a hair dryer. Pulling your hair is also a bad habit.
Third, it is best to choose shampoo containing plant elements, and use less shampoo with all chemical components, especially for people with sensitive scalp, which is easy to aggravate hair loss.
2. Hair health test
Gloss test
Operation method: Separate the cleaned hair and comb it flat and smooth. Put a mirror directly opposite, so that you can see the top of your head clearly. Make the light shoot down from the top of the head, forming a crown-shaped halo.
Inference: The brighter the halo, the better the hair luster.
toughness test
How to do it: Before washing your hair, cut off a bundle of hair about an inch long and put it in water.
Inference: you can see the hair quality within 30 seconds. Inferior hair absorbs water easily and sinks quickly. If your hair sinks in a straight line, you should pay attention to the maintenance of your hair.
Smoothing test
Operation method: comb the hair from top to bottom with a comb. Grab the end of a handful of hair, rub it hard, and then see if the hair tip is bifurcated and broken.
Inference: If the comb is always stuck in the same place, the hair in this place is the weakest and driest. Split fracture of hair tip is the beginning of hair fragility, which must be controlled and treated in time.
6, some taboos of daily shampoo
One bogey: scratch your scalp with your nails when washing your hair. There are many bacteria in nails, and once the delicate scalp is scratched, it is easy to induce infection. When applying shampoo, gently push the scalp with your fingertips to decontaminate and promote blood circulation.
Two bogeys: conditioner is applied to hair roots. Because the hair follicle is open when washing hair, the conditioner is coated on the hair root, and the chemicals inside can easily penetrate and block the hair follicle. It is recommended to straighten your hair first and apply it to the hair tip near your ears. Be sure not to let the conditioner touch your scalp.
Three bogeys: wet hair to sleep. When the hair is wet, the hair scales open, and the hair is delicate and not resistant to friction. If you sleep in a semi-wet and semi-dry state, it will cause the cuticle to become thinner and make your hair dry.
Four bogeys: wash directly without combing your hair. "The skin doesn't exist, but the hair is connected." Scalp is very important for hair. Comb your hair with a wet comb before washing your hair, so that dirt and dust attached to your scalp can float on the surface, so that you can wash your scalp and hair at the same time. In order to avoid hurting the scalp, it is recommended to use a comb with wide teeth and round head.
Five bogeys: Go out immediately after washing your hair. Studies have found that hair receives more than twice as much ultraviolet radiation as face. Ultraviolet rays will make hair scales thin and fall off. Go out immediately after washing your hair. Ultraviolet rays can easily cause hair to break and split. If you go out, you'd better take an umbrella or wear a hat to prevent ultraviolet rays.