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Hair loss in women occurs when people assigned female at birth lose more than 125 hairs per day. This can cause shedding, bald spots and thinning hair. A dermatologist can help you determine what caused your hair loss and recommend treatment options.
Female pattern baldness is a very common type of hair loss that affects women and people assigned female at birth. Female pattern baldness usually starts after menopause. It’s reversible with treatment, which includes medications, red light therapy or styling techniques.
When you start to shed more strands — and fewer or none grow back — the condition is considered alopecia (hair loss). There are several types of hair loss, and it can affect adults of any gender and even children. You may lose hair just on your head or from your body as well.
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that causes patchy hair loss anywhere on your body, but it most commonly affects the hair on the skin that covers your head (scalp). “Alopecia” is a medical term for hair loss or baldness, and “areata” means that it occurs in small, random areas.
Telogen effluvium is a common type of hair loss that affects people after they experience severe stress or a change to their body. Symptoms include thinning hair, usually around the top of your head. Treatment exists to reverse hair loss, but hair will typically grow back in three to six months without treatment.
Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a condition that results in hair loss on the front and sides of your scalp. You may also have hair loss on eyebrows, eyelashes and other parts of your body. FFA mainly affects women after age 50, though men and younger people can also have this condition.
Madarosis is sudden or noticeable hair loss on your eyebrows or eyelashes. Because so many issues or conditions can cause it, visit an eye care specialist or healthcare provider as soon as you notice any changes in or near your eyes.
Postpartum hair loss is a normal part of pregnancy and childbirth and won’t affect your baby. But hair that falls out can wrap around your baby’s fingers, toes or other body parts. This rare occurrence is called a hair tourniquet and can cause pain and cut off blood supply.
Sjögren’s syndrome is an autoimmune disease that makes your glands produce less moisture than they should. It causes chronic (long-term) dryness throughout your body (especially your eyes and mouth). Sjögren’s syndrome is pronounced “SHOW-gren’s syndrome.”.
Hirsutism is a condition that causes excess hair to grow on certain parts of your body. It mainly affects women and people assigned female at birth. Hirsutism doesn’t have a known cause, but it’s a symptom of other conditions, including polycystic ovary syndrome.