1.Are You Familiar with Your Hair?
The structure of hair is very complicated although it is fairly thin. The part out of scalp is called hair shaft, and the part beneath scalp is called hair follicle. The bottom of hair follicle is called hair bulb, in the shape of a ball, which is the growth point of hair. There is a sunken part in the lower half of hair bulb, containing connective tissue, blood vessel and nerve. It is called hair papi1la, which supplies nutrition to hair. (Picture of Mechanism of Hair Follicle)
An ordinary adult has approximately 100 thousand to 150 thousand hairs.
On average, a hair grows 0.32 ¨C 0.35mm a day. It usually grows faster at night and in summer. A person loses dozens of or even over a hundred hairs a day. All the hairs will be replaced by the new hairs every five years.
The color, brittleness, density and growing speed of hair can reflect the physical condition of a person effectively. For a healthy person, his / her hair is flourishing, dense, shining, flexible and tough; what¡¯s more, it grows relatively rapidly. Whereas, for a unhealthy person, his / her hair is sparse, brittle, shineless and easy to fall off; what¡¯s more, it grows slowly.
The growth of hair also has close relations with the psychosis and nutrition of a person. If a man is always dysphonic, somber, stewed and malnourished, his hair is also malnourished, and even turns white or falls off prematurely. Therefore, only through comprehensive familiarity with the physiological condition of hair can we protect our hair better.
2.Being Aware of the Knowledge of Hair Loss
In clinic, hair loss can be divided into two categories: one is area alopecia, total alopecia, and universal alopecia, which are caused by false hair loss; the other is seborrheic alopecia, which is cause by true hair loss.
What are the phenomena of false hair loss?
Area alopecia can be found on people of any age, especially on children and youth. The common phenomena are like this: small or large patches of hair fall off suddenly. Most of patches are round, oval or in irregular shape with clear boundaries. If the area alopecia cannot be controlled, the hair will fall off completely, resulting in total alopecia. With of fall of hair on the head, eyebrows, eyelashes, armpit hairs, pubes and the hairs all over the body will fall off, resulting in universal alopecia.
False hair loss caused by malnutrition
The herbalist doctors believe that kidney is the root of congenital as well as the source of vigor and blood. Liver is a place to store blood. If the blood is deficient, the hair will be withered. Most patients suffering from area alopecia, total alopecia, and universal alopecia are caused by the weakness of liver and kidney, or the deficiency of vigor and blood. As a result, the hair cannot be nourished and fall off due to malnutrition.
According to the modern medical science, area alopecia has connection with genetic factors, self-immunity diseases, psychic nerves, malnutrition, infection and traumas of head. Psychic nerves is the main cause to induce and impel the state of illness. Functional imbalance of autonomic nerve, functional turbulence of vasomotor center, and blood-supply obstacle of hair papi1la cause hair to come into the inactive period ahead of time and lead to fall off. Tense nerve, stimulation, unstable mood, anxiety, anger, grief, scare, heavy pressure, and the lack of sleep for a long time may result in area alopecia.
True hair loss ¡ª seborrheic alopecia
Seborrheic alopecia is also named ¡°Androgenic Alopecia (AGA)¡±, ¡°MPHL¡±, ¡°early alopecia¡±, which belongs to ¡°Hair-moth alopecia¡± according to the record of medical literature of China. Seborrheic alopecia is often found in male, after adolescence, between 20-30 years old. Those with genetic tendency appear this disease fairly early. The leading symptom is that the hair on the vertex is sparse. If the measures are not taken in time, most of hair will fall off in a few months.
Factors arousing seborrheic alopecia
The true hair loss has connection with genetic factors, male hormone and psychic nerves. Such conditions as long-term irregular living habit, tense work, heavy pressure, excessive fatigue, sit-up, poor sleep, and excessive concentration of attention for long may keep body and mind in a tensional condition, which can lead to functional imbalance of autonomic nerve and imbalance of internal secretion, resulting in hair loss.
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3.Hair Loss Harassment of Female
People usually think that hair loss only belongs to the male. As a matter of fact, it is not true. About 21% of female are facing the same problem.
Experts say that same as the male, the female lose hair in early youth. The youngest girl is only 18 according to the case record. Out of the female at 35, about 40% have signs of hair loss. Out of the female at 50, about 50% have signs of hair loss.
The symptom of hair loss of the female is different from that of the male, which first represents that more hairs fall off; the hairs on the dividing line becomes sparser; the scalp becomes more obvious, and the hairs on both sides also become thin.
Due to metabolism, it is normal for the female to lose dozens of hair a day, especially in the early spring and the end of autumn, you don¡¯t have to be worried if some a hundred hairs fall off a day. However, it may draw your attention if the number of lost hair is much more than a hundred.
Seven reasons leading to hair loss of the female
The pathology and type of hair loss of the female is almost identical with those of the male, but the cause of disease and the clinic representation are different. The 7 common reasons are as follows:
- Internal secretion: e.g. postpartum, induced abortion, oral contraceptive, abnormal menstruation, and menopause. The change of internal secretion results in imbalance of internal secretion. Consequently, the growth cycle of hair is affected and the lost hairs increase.
- Nerve system and spirit: Tense work and study, heavy pressure, lack of sleep, poor sleep quality, excessive thinking and depression interfere with the growth of hair.
- Nutrition: One-sided diet, going on a diet, malnutrition and anemia can make hair lack ample supply of nutrition. The scarcity of ferric elements can also affect the growth of hair.
- Genetic hair loss: About 70% of female suffering from hair loss belong to this type. The reasons involve heredity and the secretion of hormone. This kind of hair loss is caused by poor immunity of hair follicle of partial scalp or metabolic obstacle, which is influenced by genetic system. The people with genetic system of hair loss may not lose hair, but if they are influenced by work pressure or spiritual pressure or external factors, they are easier to lose hair than others. What¡¯s more, they may suffer from relatively serious seborrheic alopecia.
- Influence of diseases: e.g. secondary hair loss caused by various diseases, or drug-induced hair loss caused by taking medicines. Some congenital disorders, hypersecretion of sebaceous gland, or the change of secretion of sebaceous gland can arouse hair loss.
- Improper care of hair: Perming and dyeing hair frequently may damage hair, resulting in fall of hair.
- The reason for hair loss of pregnant women is that their estrogen increases during pregnancy, and the growing period of hair extends comparatively, which increases the hair in the growing period. After childbirth, especially after lactation, the hormone in the body drops, and the growth balance of hair during pregnancy is broken. The growth is suspended sharply, coming into inactive period. After 3-4 months, the hairs fall off in succession.
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4.Has Your Hair had Health Checkup Today?
The predominant feature of life lies in metabolism, and hair is not an exception. Therefore, we cannot judge whether it is normal only depending upon several or dozens of hairs we lose every day. Under the normal circumstance, the loss of hair keeps relative balance with the growth of hair. With the aging of people, hair will become less. Yet if the loss of hair does not match the age, or the hair is sparse evidently, or hairs fall off in huge quantity, it is abnormal hair loss.
Under the circumstance that the total number of hair keeps stable, it belongs to normal metabolism if a person loses 20-100 hairs a day. The evidences of abnormal hair loss are as follows:
- Losing more than 100 hairs a day and lasts two months (The thickness of 100 hairs is the same as that of a matchstick.)
- Over 3 hairs fall off in each hair-pull experiment. (Hair-pull experiment: stretch fingers of left hand, palm down, insert fingers in hair, and then grasp 20 hairs naturally, pulling forward gently.)
- The number of lost hair is more than 25% of total number of hairs.
5.What Should You Do after You Find Your Hair Lose Abnormally?
Although hair loss does not affect the people¡¯s health greatly, it affects the appearance dramatically. If over 100 hairs fall off every day and this phenomenon lasts for a long time, or the hair grows unhealthily and becomes increasingly sparse, you should communicate with the experts in hair loss treatment for early precaution and early treatment. Don¡¯t miss the best opportunity of therapy.
Early Precaution
Hair loss precaution: First, make precautions based on the causes of hair loss. Keep a good mood, good sleep, and good health; keep the balance of nutrition and proper hair care. Second, combine work and rest effectively; avoid over fatigue or excessive thinking. Third, pay attention to the adjustment of internal secretion.
Early Treatment
Area alopecia and postpartum hair loss are caused by irreversible damage of hair follicles, which can be fully recovered within short time after treatment. Whereas, the cause of seborrheic alopecia has relations with heredity and a special hormone named dihydrotestosterone (shortened form: DHT). The research shows: DHT can shorten the growing period of hair; diminish the atrophy of hair follicle; the balance of hair regrowth and loss is broken, and hairs become sparse, thin, soft and fall off. Once this kind of disease comes on, it may last several years or even decades. Most people do not pay any notice at the beginning of hair loss until the front hairline takes the shape of ¡°M¡± and moves backward. The loss of hair on the vertex becomes more apparent, and the personal image is spoiled. If the treatment is not canonical, the situation can be developed into the ¡°Mediterranean-style¡± hair loss. The hair follicles of the bald area shrink remarkably and become hard to recover. Hence, it is crucial to take pertinent measures before the obvious atrophy of hair follicles.
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6.How Long will It Take to Cure Hair Loss?
The fundament of hair growth lies in hair follicles, yet the change of hair follicles needs a certain period of time. The hair growth also needs a certain course. 101 series products can stimulate the regrowth of atrophic hair follicles; have noticeable effects on the regrowth of hair; enjoy public praise home and abroad, and are the reliable products of hair losers. Under the effects of Zhang Guang 101 series products, the new hair can grow out in seven days for those on whom the products have obvious effects. But taking the consolidation effects into consideration, the patients should apply them for more than three months.
Because of complicated reasons for hair loss, the recovery periods vary. The recovery period has connection with the elimination of the reasons for hair loss as well as the nourishment condition of whole body. It is suggested that hair losers often have their hairs tested in the service center so as to find problems in time, and ask consultants to make timely adjustment to your remedial scheme in order to obtain the best remedial effects.
7.How to Improve the Effects of Hair Regrowth Products?
Choose the products that suit your type of hair loss. Use the same product continuously and reach a certain dosage. Keep using it and maintain the dosage for 3-6 months after recovery. Apply the product all over the scalp and reduce dosage gradually to avoid recrudescence. Don¡¯t shampoo your hair too frequently. It is suggested that the product should be applied when the scalp is dry after each shampoo, for it will in favor of penetration. In the course of applying the products, excessive smoking, frequent staying up late, fluctuant emotions and self-indulgent diet should be avoided to achieve better effects.
8.Knowledge on Overall Hair Loss Prevention
What can cause hair loss?
- Strong spiritual shock, such as disappointed love, inharmonious marriage, failure in passing the entrance examination or in business, decease of family members or accidental scare;
- Excessive thinking, tense spirit or long-term deficiency of slumber;
- Deviant night life, e.g. playing mah-jong overnight;
- White-collar workers: the irregular work and living habits lead to the imbalance of excitement and restraint;
- Excessive fatigue: e.g. work overtime or overnight;
- The terrible ecological environment: e.g. in an environment of noise, water pollution, air pollution, heavy metals or radioactive substances;
- Use inferior shampoo, or some low quality dyeing, perm and hair care products at random;
- Unaccustomed to the climate of a new place, and the change of habitats and dietary habits;
- The skin diseases affecting the health of scalp have not been recovered.
The above nine situations can lead to hair loss. If you lose your hair due to the above reasons, you should change your living habits in time to so that this phenomenon may not become increasingly serious. At the same time, those who have not suffered from hair loss should also take precaution measures as early as possible, and protect their hair properly. The reasonable living habits and living orderliness is a permanent solution to keeping hair healthy.
Do hair losers need to nourish their liver and kidneys?
Most people think that hair loss is aroused by deficiency of vital energy and lowering of body resistance. Accordingly, nutrition should be added whenever hairs fall off. In addition, it is believed that nourishing liver and kidneys is of vital importance. Sometimes it works to cure hair loss through tonic effect; sometimes, however, it does not work, or even aggravates the illness. The causes for hair loss can be various, including deficiency in liver and kidney, blood heat, blood stasis of qi-deficiency, deficiency of qi and blood, internal dampness and heat, internal injuries or emotions. Hence, hair loss can be a false disease, true disease or a mixture of both false and true disease. Nourishing liver and kidneys is only suitable for the false hair loss due to deficiency of liver and kidneys. For other types of hair loss, especially for the true hair loss, tonic effect is not suitable.
Which foods do hair losers need to avoid?
Besides the active treatment, hair losers should also pay attention to the regularity of life and the scientificity of dietary habits. Avoiding eating certain food is very necessary to improve hair regrowth effect and accelerate the early growth of new hair.
- Do not overeat sweet food, the food containing excess starch, beverage, fried food, chocolate, butter and the food containing fat, for these foods can result in surplus sugar in body, and cause disorder of fat metabolism, hypersecretion of lipid, acidity-based blood, which can make hair become yellow and withered.
- Avoid eating spicy and irritant foods, such as chilli, mustard, shallot, garlic, wine and alcoholic drinks, for these foods can stimulate scalp, arouse and aggravate the itch of scalp, resulting in aggravation of hair loss.
- Eat less or do not eat the food with nutshell, such as melon seeds, peanuts, torreya grandis, sunflower seeds, for these foods are greasiness, which is unfavorable for the recovery of hair loss diseases.
Which foods are favorable for hair losers?
Scientific dietary habit is of great importance for the advance of hair loss prevention effect as well as the promotion of regrowth of new hair. Proper supplement of ferric elements, vegetable protein, iodine and Vitamin E can make hair reach the best condition.
- Those whose hairs often fall off lack ferric elements in their body. The foods containing abundant ferric element include soybean, black soybean, egg, hairtail, shrimp, cooked peanut, spinach, carp, banana, carrot, radish, potato, etc.
- Eat more soybean, black sesame and corn which are rich in vegetable protein. It can solve the problems of dry hair and split hair end.
- Eat proper amount of food containing iodine, such as kelp, laver and oyster, which can strengthen the secretion function of thyroid, in order to impel hair to become more shining.
- Eat more foods containing Vitamin E, such as fresh lettuce, cabbage, black sesame, to resist hair decrepitude, accelerate cell division, and boost the growth of hair.
The secret between sleep and hair
In the clinic practice, the hair losers of various types will suffer from insomnia or compelling deficiency in sleep before losing hair or during hair loss.
Sleep not only has close relations with hair loss, but is very important for the health of people as well, since sleep plays the significant role in protecting the nerve cells of cerebral cortex, meanwhile, it is also a good opportunity to supply nutrition. In a day, the exuberant period of metabolism for skin and hair follicle cells is night, particularly between 10 pm and 2 am. If a person have a good rest during this period of time, the metabolism of skin and hair follicle cells can be expedited, realizing the goal of delaying skin aging and keeping healthy hair.
The modern spirit neurology tells us that the immune function of those with neurasthenic and frequent insomnia is weaker than that of those with fairly good slumber. Those with neurasthenic and frequent insomnia lack oxygen in their head. The increase of sebum secretion jams pores or augments the grease of hair, bringing about the decrease of nutrition supply to hair. As a result, the hairs become withered, yellow, fragile and easy to fall off. In the meantime, hair follicles begin to shrink gradually. The long-term insomnia can induce the immune system of the scalp to be inordinate. The long-term spastic shrinkage of capillary vessel fails to make hair follicles obtain nutrition from blood, but make hair come into the inactive period, emerging large patches of hair loss and resulting in area alopecia, total alopecia, or even universal alopecia.
Both lack of sleep and insomnia do great harm to people¡¯s health, hair and skin. Therefore, we suggest that everyone should develop good slumber habit:
- Wear loose vest, underpants or soft fitted pajamas while sleeping.
- Keep good sleeping postures. For instance: to lie on the right side, because the muscles all over the body can be relaxed; the heart will not be oppressed, and the respiration of lungs is smooth to ensure the oxygen supply for the whole body during sleep.
- Form the habit of going to bed and getting up at fixed time; adjust your own biological clock; do not sit up late immoderately.
- Before sleep, do not eat or drink the foods that make people excited, such as strong tea, coffee. Besides, do not smoke or drink alcohol. Do not overeat or over-starve in supper.
- Do not read excited novel, or see excited movie or TV before sleep. Do not consider problems or debate with others for long time.
- Soak feet with warm water or take a warm bath before sleep. After going to bed, sit quietly for a little while to calm down, which is easy to have a sweet dream.
- Do not sleep with the light on.
- Do not use too soft beddings; the pillow should be neither too high nor too low, about the height of a fist, with moderate hardness.
9.Can Silver Hair Become Black?
Some silver hairs can turn black, like the silver hairs of area alopecia. But there are two preconditions. One is that the hairs must be black before loss. After hair loss, the new silver hairs grown out of hair follicles can become black. The other is that the front part of hair grown out of scalp is silver, which cannot become black; the back part can become black gradually. Some silver hairs cannot become black, e.g. the silver hair of people with albinism, and some silver hairs can only become black partially.
Zhang Guang 101 has accumulated rich experience and has achieved certain efficacy in terms of change from silver hair to black hair. Beijing 101 Hair Institute has carried out special study on the change of hair from silver to black since very beginning. At present, external use of 101D can nourish hair and ameliorate the quality of hair. In the meantime, taking 7-treasure capsules orally can nourish liver and kidney, and blacken hairs. The further consolidation after the effect appears and the adoption of precautionary measures can make the effects better.
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10.What Should You Do If You Have Too Much Scurf?
Research demonstrates that the excess scurf has connection with fatigue, which arouses the accumulation of acid metabolized products in body. Hence, eating more alkaline foods, such as fruit, vegetables and honey, is in favor of the balance between acid and alkali, and reduces the loss of hair. Eating more foods containing ample Vitamin B2 and B6, such as animal liver, kidney, heart, yolk, milk, soybean, fresh vegetable and yeast, is in favor of fat metabolism and the treatment of seborrheic dermatitis. The spicy, irritant and the food with high fat will aggravate the itch of scalp, hypersecretion of sebum and the production of scurf. Eat less chilli, mustard, shallot, garlic, wine, alcoholic drinks, chocolate and fried food.
11.The Correct Way of Shampooing Makes Hair More Healthy
If you observe life carefully, it is not hard to find that the trifling shampooing habit can also change your life. The following points are the correct way of shampooing. As long as you pay attention to them, you can master the good way of shampooing easily, which can make you have healthier hair.
- The frequency of shampooing should be moderate. In south or in summer, or for those with plentiful grease, shampooing once a day is acceptable; while in north or in winter, shampooing 2-3 times a week is enough.
- The way of shampooing should be moderate. Do not put shampoo on the vertex to avoid stimulating hypersecretion of sebum on the vertex.
- The length of shampooing should be moderate. The shampoo stays not more than 5 minutes on the vertex, and should be flushed away as soon as possible. If you shampoo your hair before sleep, you should dry your hair before going to bed.
- The temperature of water for shampooing should be moderate. The appropriate temperature is between 30¡æ and 38¡æ. If the water is too cold, the sebum and dirt cannot be removed. If the water is too hot, the protein of hair will be spoiled, resulting in the loss of flexibility and luster of hair. In addition, the too hot water will stimulate the hypersecretion of sebaceous gland.
The type of shampoo should be moderate. The quality of hair can be divided into oily, moderate and dry. Choose the high-quality shampoo that is suitable for your own hair. Determine the amount of shampoo for each use according to the length, the amount and the cleanness of hair. On the basis of the needs of clients, 101 has researched and developed high-quality hair-nourishing shampoo as well as hair loss preventing shampoo, enabling the quality of your hair to be improved rapidly.
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