Diagnostic of Hair Loss
If your hairs seem unhealthy or you've noticed unusual amount of them on your comb do not put off the visit to doctor! It is very important to diagnose the decease on the early stage when it easily respond to treatment.
Moreover the hair is the mirror of your body, so the hair loss could be the result of more dangerous illness.
The main types of hair loss diagnostic are:
Perhaps the hair suffers from shortage of some vitamins and minerals so even the minor change of the diet could stop it.
If the disease is more serious it is equally important to start treating it as soon as possible.
Moreover the hair is the mirror of your body, so the hair loss could be the result of more dangerous illness.
The main types of hair loss diagnostic are:
- Reproductive hormones and thyroid hormones blood test.
The most common cause of baldness among men are male reproductive hormones.
However women can also suffer hair loss because of male reproductive hormones.
It is possible after the pregnancy, ovarian or adrenal dysfunction as well as during menopause.
Another hair loss cause could lie in excess or shortage of thyroid hormones. - Abdominal and thyroid ultrasound can also locate some problems with liver, pancreas or thyroid body which led to hair damage.
- Hair screening test/mineral analysis.
Hair contains all information on excess or shortage of minerals, metabolic disease or toxic metals intoxication.
However it can't be found out from colored or perming hair.
Therefore it is necessary to wait at least a month before making mineral analysis. - Hair microscope testing is the objective analysis of hair growth stages.
It allows to estimate the proportion between anagen hair (in growth stage) and telogen hair (which growth has already stopped).
With the aid of this test the doctor could determine the type of alopecia and track the dynamic of the disease. - Hair computer test.
The hair root and shaft are snapshoot and than scaled up on the monitor.
Then the doctor carries out visual check of the hair conditions and measures it.
This test is also useful by scalp work-up.
Perhaps the hair suffers from shortage of some vitamins and minerals so even the minor change of the diet could stop it.
If the disease is more serious it is equally important to start treating it as soon as possible.
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