Female hair loss

One in four women suffers from baldness. Generally, hair loss is considered a male problem and it is not talked about much, but it occurs more frequently than one might commonly assume.

Hair loss in women often has various interrelated causes. Both men and women can suffer from different types of alopecia: the most common are alopecia areata (an autoimmune disease), alopecia due to hair pulling or stress, but the most frequent cause is female pattern hereditary hair loss. This condition is much more widespread than one would believe, a social phenomenon that is constantly increasing and affecting different age groups. As mentioned, one in four women suffers from hair loss.

It is true that women are less often bald than men, but they are not immune to hereditary alopecia, which is why we speak of female pattern hereditary alopecia, also known as female baldness, which occurs more often than one might think. Female alopecia has different dynamics than male alopecia. In women, hair becomes thinner all over the head, but no receding hairlines form. Total baldness almost never occurs with hereditary alopecia.

Although a genetic predisposition is one of the most common factors for this phenomenon, the reasons for hair loss in women are diverse: some are general, others are individual and often related to lifestyle, such as stress, unbalanced diet, menopause, the period after pregnancy, and much more.
For women, hair loss often affects their psyche and is perceived as much more dramatic and disfiguring than it is by men. For them, hair loss means a significant impairment of their self-image. In 70% of cases, the topic of "hair loss" is experienced in a clearly negative way.