Tuesday, November 14, 2006. ALOPECIA AREATA IS ONE OF THE CAUSE FOR HAIR FALLING AND BALDNESS. This variety is supposed to affect both males and females equally but generally those between the ages of ten and thirty. There are two etiological theories - one regards alopecia areata as parasitic and contagious and the other as trophoneurotic and non- contageous. The contageous variety is more common.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006. ALOPECIA CONGENITA IS ONE OF THE CONDITION WHICH CAUSES BALDNESS. This is a rare condition usually caused by a delay in the development of the hair. Heridity is considered to be a causative factor for this condition. Hair may grow late after a week or month, or may not grow in some exceptional cases.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006. ALOPECIA SENILIS IS ONE OF THE CAUSE FOR HAIR FALLING AND BALDNESS. Baldness due to old age is seldom seen before the 40th year. It usually begins at the vertex and spreads forward and backward until the whole crown is symmetrically affected. It may also be a general thinning of the scalp or it may start in the brow and show its advance by a receding forehead. Seborrahoea is the major cause in this kind also apart from the general degeneration due to old age.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006. The normal scalp contains about one lakh hair with a normal growth of about 12 centimetres in a year. Every day 40 to 100 hair are lost and replaced in healthy human beings. If the loss of hair is more than the replacement, then the condition of baldness sets in. Treatment for baldness - falling of hair.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006. HOMEOPATHY TREATMENT FOR BALDNESS-HAIR FALLING IS ONE OF THE SAFEST TREATMENT. Is a condition when ther is loss of hair, either partial or general, due to changes in the follicles which deprive it of its power to form hair. It may be thinning of the head or complete baldness. Falling of hair in tufts, espacially from the crown of the hea.