Hair Loss In Women: Regrow Your Natural Hair!

Every day, the average woman sheds between 50 to 100 strands of hair. In most cases, this is an insignificant amount, given that there are over 100,000 other strands of hair on the female scalp, as well as due to the cycle of continuous hair growth. However, hair loss in women occurs when the cycle is disrupted, such as with the destruction of the hair follicle where scar tissue now rests.

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What causes hair loss in women?

Before getting into hair loss causes, it’s important to understand how hair growth itself works. Consider it similar to a garden, in which the quality of the growth largely depends on how well things are going under the surface. The following are all factors that could play into hair loss in women:

Heredity

A family of female-pattern baldness is the most common reason for hair loss in women. It is a slow process that occurs in an expected pattern; for women, that means thinning hair. Heredity also has a say at what age a woman will start to lose hair, how quickly they’ll experience thinness, and how severe the balding is.

Hormones & Other Medical Conditions

Changes and imbalances can result in a temporary loss of hair in women. Some examples could be the onset of menopause, childbirth or pregnancy. The thyroid gland also affects hormone levels, so problems with this gland could result in hair loss in women.

Alopecia areata

This occurs when the body’s immune system believes its own hair follicles are foreign substances and attacks them, resulting in sudden hair loss that leaves patches of baldness throughout the skin.

Scalp infection

An infection like ringworm could invade the scalp skin and lead to hair loss. The hair will usually grow back once the infection has been treated.

Hair-pulling disorder

More specifically known as trichotillomania, this disorder causes someone to pull out their hair due to the overwhelming urge to do so.

Medications

Drugs used for depression, arthritis, cancer, high blood pressure, heart problems and birth control can all result in hair loss. This can also occur as a result of consuming too much vitamin A as well.

The Emotional Impact of Hair Loss in Women

Usually, you’ll hear about men having difficulty with their balding because they feel it’s a sign of excessive aging and a loss of attractive qualities. Because it usually happens during the middle of life, the emotional impact is that much stronger. Though men can get very emotional regarding their age, it’s actually women who find it harder to deal with hair loss.

In fact, studies have shown that women suffer more greatly emotionally when it comes to females losing hair. The differences were more severe than any effects men dealt with from their balding. Both men and women completed questionnaires developed by psychologists to understand the true impact hair loss has for women.

Ultimately, the women were far more concerned about their appearance, leading to a stronger psychological investment in their public appearance. The women were not so much vain as particular about how they were perceived, which shows the strength of the emotional stress when suffering hair thinning and loss.

What is PRP Hair Regeneration and How Does it Work?

Recent breakthroughs in technology and scientific research have provided the medical industry with new ways to help heal tissues and wounds. Because of these innovations, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy has become more popular as a natural procedure for the stimulation of regrowth to battle hair loss in women.

Though the studies on successful PRP therapy treatments continue to be published, the hair restoration industry is just beginning to utilize this breakthrough treatment as a true solution for hair loss in women. As more information becomes available, traditional hair replacement centers that once only used more artificial means of treatment are now becoming more accepting of the new procedure. In fact, a recent Dermatologic Surgery study was published that showed Korean physicians supporting PRP as a hair loss solution.

PRP has already been used in various other branches of medicine, such as to help accelerate the treatment of osteoarthritis and tendon injuries, as well as in some aspects of jaw reconstruction and cardiovascular medicine. The plasma rich in platelets can accelerate tissue repair and therefore stands a chance to help restore hair for women.

If someone chose to go the more extreme and un-natural route of undergoing a hair transplant procedure, PRP can either be sprayed onto or injected into the site area to improve the stimulation of graft healing. It may also be applied to the donor area to ensure the incision heals more quickly and potentially reduces how much scarring will appear.

For treating female pattern baldness, PRP can be injected directly into the balding skin as well as micro-needled onto the scalp, which should be able to encourage thin hairs to grow into thicker hairs. Patients with thinning hairs but not so many bald patches make the best candidates for such a treatment.

What Can I Expect From the Platelet Rich Plasma Procedure?

When PRP therapy is used to stimulate hair growth and correct hair loss in women, most doctors will schedule the injections throughout one to nine months. Most women can expect some improvement to begin in the first two to six months. It is important to maintain treatment to keep the improvements.

Women Suffering From Hair Loss can also enjoy several benefits of PRP:

  • It’s a non-surgical healing treatment that has seen success in several fields
  • Upon activation, the platelet-derived granules will release growth factors
  • Relies on the patient’s own blood, making it a more natural course of treatment
  • Requires only a small sample
  • The system is easy, fast and effective

How Does PRP Hair Restoration Compare to Other Hair Loss Treatment Methods?

As a non-surgical, natural method, PRP therapy has a much stronger advantage over other kinds of hair restoration treatments for treating hair loss in women.

PRP uses the patient’s own blood, which contains mesenchymal stem cells as well as autologous blood products that have the necessary growth factors for healing and tissue regeneration. Both the United States and Europe have researchers who have published medical literature confirming the safety of undergoing PRP therapy.

For over two decades, this treatment option has been used as therapy for wound and skin healing. Since then, it’s readily established itself to be quite useful and effective as a treatment for various medical specialties like neurosurgery, oral surgery, cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery, orthopedics and sports medicine. In these last two decades, it’s also seen great success.

With hair restoration, there is evidence that supports the idea that PRP can prove effective for hair loss in women. It’s impossible to make a claim of efficacy, and PRP isn’t meant to completely replace FDA approved therapies like Minoxidil and DHT blockers. However, it is a very promising natural and non-surgical treatment option for those suffering from hair loss.

Schedule a Consultation Today at LifeBoost in Boca Raton

At LifeBoost, we use state of the art centrifuges that have been shown to extract higher concentration of PRP than most, therefore giving you the best value during your treatment. Overall, hair loss in women is never an easy experience. Luckily Platelet Rich Plasma has been showing great results in our patients and we’re happy to offer the most cutting edge hair loss treatment for women in our practice. Give us a call today at (561) 922-9967 to determine whether or not you are a good candidate for PRP therapy in Boca Raton.

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7035 Beracasa Way, Suite 102
Boca Raton, FL 33433

(561) 922-9967