When is the fall of hair also matter of hormones.

-the two most critical hormonal stages for the hair are menopausal and post-partum

-the use of birth control pills, thyroid diseases, or situations of Hyperandrogenism may also affect the health of the hair

Madrid, March of 2013.- capillary health of women can be affected by many factors, most of them internal and related hormones. Disorders or hormonal rearrangements that occur after pregnancy and definitive hormonal changes associated with menopause are perhaps two times more critical to the hair of the woman ”, says Dr. Germán Delgado, doctor of Svenson.

Although there may also be other situations affecting the hair health. The hand of Dr. Germán Delgado, we make a review of the most important.

Pregnancy and post-partum

During pregnancy, hormonal changes are very numerous in the woman. In the beginning of pregnancy, high levels of progesterone are produced. Later the body will produce prolactin to prepare women for breast feeding. And towards the end of the pregnancy, in order to delivery, will dominate another hormone, oxytocin.

This hormonal imbalance affects, in principle, a positive hair health of women, since, thanks to progesterone, the hair bulb androgen receptors are blocked and prevented the fall of hair ”, says Dr. Delgado of Svenson.

But after the birth, the process is reversed. Hormone levels decrease, causing the hair, which has remained in growth phase, during pregnancy to pass sharply fall phase. This type of alopecia occurs between two and four months after childbirth and affects 50% of women ”, assures Dr. Delgado. The stress of postpartum women suffering affects negatively, intensifying the fall.

Treatment Svenson postpartum: Depending on the intensity of the fall of the hair and the State of this, recommend treatments in Center either application products at home, adapt also in this way to the new agenda for women, dedicated almost exclusively to the care of your baby.

Menopause

Starting at age 40, many women begin to see how your hair becomes thin and brittle. With the arrival of menopause, and many hormonal alterations resulting from these capillary problems tend to escalate, even start to fall.

During menopause, the hormonal profile of women in some way be masculinizes, produced a sharp drop in estrogen levels while that of testosterone are stable ”, says Dr. Delgado, which affects the hair life cycle, shorten it and promoting its fall ”.

Although it is a common problem, does not affect all women, since they involved other factors, as says the doctor of Svenson: genetic inheritance and the State in which the hair was previously ”.

Women who are in this situation must go to a specialist to confirm, or rule out, that the weakening of the hair and its loss are related to menopause , recommends the Dr. Delgado of Svenson.

The recommended treatment in these cases is Minoxidil, the only drug of topical application with proven efficacy. Svenson has treatment Mx Active including a novel application of Minoxidil, using an air compressor.

Thyroid disease

Another hormone, thyroid malfunction is located among the causes of hair loss in women. Its two main disorders (hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism) dan respectively lower or pathological increase in the production of thyroxine, which affects the condition of the hair, by making this finest and favoring his fall.

These diseases are diagnosed by clinical symptoms and laboratory tests and require a specific treatment of the endocrine. Subsequently, once regulated the functioning of hormone, hair specialist can make a concrete assessment of the condition of the hair ”, says Dr. Germán Delgado.

Birth control pills

It can be produced a glow by the use of contraceptives, once suspended the treatment, after having been doing it long. This is because estrogens that provides contraceptive medication prolongs the anagen phase or hair growth, returning to its normal pace to leave treatment ”, assures Dr. Delgado.

Hyperandrogenism

Hyperandrogenism is a situation of excess production of androgens, i.e. increase in male formulas that must be diagnosed and treated, first, by the gynaecologist. It may be due to several situations or medical conditions, is the most frequent form perhaps the polycystic ovary syndrome ”, says Dr. Delgado, which promotes hair loss in those cases in which by inheritance are predisposed. ”

On Svenson

Svenson is the Spanish multinational company that leads the market in capillary health in Europe offering the most innovative technical medico-cosmeticas for hair problems and solutions most appropriate for men and women and for all degree of alopecia or baldness irreversible. He is currently the leader in Europe and has more than 60 of its centres in Spain, Germany, Portugal and Switzerland with more than 600 employees.