Leukemia (Blood Cancer)

 

Today I am going to talk about hair loss. There are many kinds of hair loss among the many types. Telogen effluvium is the commonest once seen and is more common in women, so what is it? It is a temporary thinning of hair on the scalp because of changes in the growth cycle of the hair so which leads to increased shedding of the telogen hair in the growth cycle so it can be acute or chronic.

Acute where there is a history of hair loss of around three months and chronic where there is a history of more than three months so what are the causes of acute illusion equilibrium see it might be seen in people who have suffered from fevers for a long time like typhoid malaria dengue or after of childbirth after delivery or after an accidental trauma after a long emotional distance for after up or miss major surgical operations where there is severe hemorrhage and the people who are using medications like oral contraceptives or hormonal replacement treatment etc.

So coming to specific treatment give the patient like dietary supplements which contain piped-in pantothenic acid calcium supplements and even a minor amino acid supplements and asked them to have good protein-rich diet and lots of natural diet like preaching fruit salad sprouts and all and if other things like emotional distress and if the person has anorexia nervosa and all ask a patient to take psychiatric consultation as well and there are many or hair root strengthening of medicines available in the market like a peptide serums and even minoxidil and all they can be tried and not the patients who use mild shampoos where the ph of the hair follicles are maintained now when is medicated shampoos are perfect ask them to go for it and avoid hair styling gel as much as possible and other things like cosmetic gels or cosmetic procedures as much as.

So we will ask the patient the history of you know like all these causes but if the obvious cause is not known so go for investigations go for iron studies, thyroid function tests or other anti-nuclear antibody test rules out SLE Lupus and last but not the least like even HIV syphilis, etc so then even in Engleman address these days young women are going for crashed at for you know exclaiming down under where they're least bothered about their nutritional deficiencies so address their eating habits and like there might be deficiency of vitamins, minerals, proteins, energy malnutrition and also their dietary habits should be at rest and again like the history of medicinal intake to be ruled out and if they are not are necessary to the patient then ask the patient to stop those medicine.

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