The Basics Of Menopause And Hair Loss
Many women find that they start noticing hair loss when they enter menopause. Around two-thirds of women also face hair loss, but women experience the greatest hair loss due to menopause commencement.
Take Note
It takes three months for hair loss to become noticeable from the time it starts. If you start to experience hair loss it will help to grab a paper and a pen and write down all the stressful or life changing things that may have happened to you in the past three months. Stress can play a factor in your hair loss, no matter if the stress is from the mood swings of changing hormone levels or outside stresses. Also, taking a new medication, such as high blood pressure medications, birth control pills, antidepressants, and blood thinners, may make your hair fall out as well.
The Causes
Other than stress and medication, hair loss can be caused by several factors, the most common being low thyroid function, which is typical during menopause. The changes in hormone levels that are caused by menopause are a factor in hair loss, such as the increase in testosterone. Progesterone levels also drop because of lack of ovulation in the body and it compensates by producing extra androstenedione, which hampers hair growth.
Combating Loss
There are several ways to combat menopausal hair loss. The first you may want to consider is just waiting it out. Most women will find that after menopause their hair will regain the fullness it had before menopause. Dying your hair and certain layered cuts can make your hair feel thicker and fuller while you are waiting. Soy, which boosts the levels of estrogen in most women, can be used to combat the effects of hormone-related hair loss.
Some have found that massaging rosemary oil into the scalp helps to re-grow hair. Rosemary is not the only factor in this treatment that helps. The massage stimulates the hair follicles and pours making your scalp healthier.
At home laser treatment may be another option to consider. At home laser treatment is administered with a laser comb that uses soft, rotating, low-light lasers. Studies have shown that using laser treatment for hair loss may stop or reverse the cycle of growth of thin, fine hairs caused by menopause because the laser stimulates follicles and speeds up the production of living cells in the hair root that grows into hair shafts (the hair you eventually see on your head) after hair loss.
