Treatment of Hair Loss

After you have learned about the causes of hair loss, as well as some of the ways to prevent it, probably the next most important question that tortures your mind is if hair loss is treatable. Yes, hair loss can be treated and there are many ways to it. In some cases, even a complete recovery is possible but this of course depends more on the reason for hair loss than on the way it is treated because simply there is permanent and temporary hair loss and as discussed before, only temporary hair loss can be cured completely.

As already mentioned many times throughout these articles, hair loss treatment starts with diagnosing the cause. If you don't diagnose the cause correctly, then your treatment might by chance produce good results but since you are not dealing with the very reason for your falling hair, it is much more probable that the results will be far from perfect. It is also very important that you diagnose your hair loss as early as possible because if you catch it in an early stage, then treatment, or at least slowing down of the rate at which your hair is falling, will be more effective.

A general rule that applies to hair loss treatment is that the process is taking a long time and it takes a lot of patience. Besides, even with surgery (the heavy artillery of hair loss treatment) it is not always possible to restore one's hair to its previous perfect condition, so you'd better don't get depressed if your hair does not improve rapidly or recover completely.

Depending on the cause and stage of your hair loss, your doctor might prescribe one or more procedures and/or medications. Basically, there are three approaches to hair loss treatment – natural hail loss treatment, which relies on natural remedies that have been used since ancient times, medical treatment, which uses modern pharmaceutical products, and surgery. Very often a combination of two or three of the approaches will be used but there are cases when only one of them is absolutely enough to get your hair back.

Historically the first form of hair loss treatment is the natural one. In ancient times people didn't have today's pharmaceutic industry, not to mention such achievements of surgery as hair transplants but still they made rather successful attempts to treat hair loss. While generally natural hair loss remedies can't be compared in effect to surgery, in many cases of partial hair loss they prove more effective than medicines. Natural hair treatment involves many herbs, supplements, mixtures, etc. that prevent or cure hair loss.

Some of the most famous natural approaches to hair loss include the use of the saw palmetto herb and other plants like rosemary and sage, jojoba oil, aloe vera and henna.

Massage and aromatherapy are also gaining popularity as an alternative to drugs and for some people these two relatively new forms of natural treatment have proven really useful in the long term.

Medical treatment involves two main drugs – Propecia and Rogaine and is used for treating hair loss both in men and women. Propecia and Rogaine are not effective on completely bald areas, so if you see that your hair is thinning and starts to fall, don't wait too long before you start treatment. Also, have in mind that generally it takes up to half an year before you start experiencing the positive effects of medical treatment of hair loss, so in addition to being patient, you'd better start early with the therapy.

One of the best applications of Propecia and Rogaine is in combination with each other, or after a hair transplant has been performed, these two drugs can be used to strengthen the effect. Generally both drugs are safe to use (Propecia is used orally, while Rogaine is applied topically) and they have relatively mild side effects.

No doubt the most effective treatment for permanent hair loss is surgery. This is a very young branch of science and as it can be expected, its long-term effects are studied less than the effects of natural remedies, for example. Surgery is the radical approach to hair loss and for patients who have lost most of their hair, or who have grown very bald a hair transplant is the only solution. Though surgery has many advantages over natural ways of hair loss treatment and medication, it also has some serious disadvantages, as explained in this article, so you need to weigh the pros and cons before you decide to resort to the scalpel.