Luxurious Hair After Pregnancy
During pregnancy period, especially on late terms, hairs often make a woman glad. They become strong and shining. You just cannot believe that, while looking at comb, you can see no hairs on it. This happens due to your organism's satiation with vitamins, nutritive substances and favorable hormonal background. However, 3-4 months later you can see a reverse process: hairs fall out sometimes, suffer from fragility and look lifeless. Don't panic! Your hairs soon will gain beauty again, but you definitely should help them.
"Delicate" life of a hair
One loses about 60-80 hairs per day. At the same time new ones come to take their place.
On average, a hair grows 1-1,5 cm per month. When a new hair is formed in a bulb, old one falls out. What do we know about our hair?
- Female hairs live up to 10 years, while male ones only ... 3 years - Blondes have most thick hair - about 140 thousands of hairs. Brunettes - 102 thousands, brown-haired women - 109, red - 88 thousands. - Nationality, place of living influence thickness of hair.
It is known, that natives of South have richer scalp, than natives of North. - During day time hairs grow quicker, than during night. - In spring-summer time hairs grow significantly more actively, than in autumn and winter. - Speed of hair growth depends on age.
The most active growth takes place between 15 and 30 years, any by 40 years speed of hair growth begins slowing down significantly. Business-ladies are in danger! Unfortunately, not all women can boast of wonderful chevelure in modern conditions of life.
According to statistics, by 2010 year alopecia threatens to 70% of men and 10% of women in Europe.
First of all, business-ladies are in risk group. The matter is, that in strong women's blood there's an excess of male hormone testosterone, and it contributes to "business" pelade. Why do hairs fall out? When conditions of head skin and blood circulation are normal, there is no excessive falling out of hairs.
Sudden falling out can start because of:
- significant decrease of quantity of estrogens (female sexual hormones) after pregnancy, childbirth; - taking of some contraceptive preparations, containing substances, increasing level of androgens in blood; - bad blood circulation; - lack of nutrition for hair roots; - operations with usage of general anaesthetic, inflectional diseases of head skin; - excessive greasiness; - poor nutrition (lack of vitamins and microelements); - stresses; - chronic not getting enough sleep.
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