Having a good diet giving the body vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants in the right amount may slow down the speed of hair loss.

There exist pharmacological products on the market that can help against hair loss, but usually not 100% effectively. Medicines used to treat prostate hypertrophy have been proven to stop hair loss and to get hair to regain, because these drugs block the substance DHT.

The drug is not documented for use against seborrheic alopecia, for minors and people above 60 years. In the cure AGA it is used in combination with finasteride taken orally.
 

NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS TO TREAT HAIR LOSS

Many natural ingredients are reported to  give signal to the cells in the hair follicles to accelerate growth, for example procyanidin B2.

Some people report that a supplement of the vitamine biotin slows down hair loss and stimulates hair growth. Good sources of biotin is cauliflower, egg yolks, peanuts, liver, chicken, yeast and mushrooms.

Other natural compounds block oxidative attacks on the follicle constituents, like L-arginine.

Natural blockers of the  DHT are also used in natural extracts. Saw palmetto extract contains constituents that gives more or less the same effect as Minoxidil.

Still other ingredients can hinder much of the conversion of testosterone to DHT. Grean tea extract contain these kinds of effectors.

There are many natural products on the market to help against hair loss. These products often contain several substances working together by different principles.

LASER THERAPY FOR TREATMENT OF BALDNESS

Laser therapy against bald areas on the scalp has been tried, and are said to be effective against hair loss. The therapy works partly by warming the tissues and thereby stimulating the blood circulation and partly by stimulating chemical processes at cellular level (photobiostimulation). By the last mechanism special molecules, chromophores, absorb the light and make energy available for other specific chemical reactions. For example will some of them bring oxygen atoms to a higher energy level and these oxygen atoms will then participate in other chemical reactions.

Usually red laser beams of the wvelength 670 nm are used since these penetrate deep into the tissue. Low energy visible light is also especially good at stimulating certain chemical cell functions through photobiostimulation, and this is also a reason for using this wavelength. But also other wavelengths seem to give specific useful stimulating effects on the cell level, and lasers delivering other wavelangths are therefore also used, for example 632,8 nn, 635 nm, 650 nm, 660 nm, 670 nm, 780 nm, 820 nm, 830 nm, 904 nm. The lasers used either give pulsed light of high intensity or less intense continous light.

SURGICAL BALDNESS TREATMENTS

By surgery hair follicles from parts of the scull or neck immune to DHT are moved to bold areas.

Surgery is a good treatment when the bald areas are of limited extent, but makes poorer results when extended areas are treated, because the available hair to transplant will be thinned out too much in those cases.

There are several surgical methods available. A traditional method is to take out small skin slices with groups of follickles one by one and transplant them to the new place.

A much used method nowadays is to surgically remove an extended skin sheet, and then take out single follickles from that sheet one by one and transplant them. The area where the skinh sheet is taken out must be repaired by loosing the skin around this area from the scalp by snitting under the circumphaerance of the area, then pulling the skin together over the open sore and then sew it together.

It is also possible to implant artificial hair into the scalp. By this method, large bald areas can be covered, but the treatment implies a certain danger for infection, and requires good hair hygiene afterwards.

Allopecia areata - another common hair loss condition

Another common kind of hair loss, allopecia areata, is a sudden hair loss at parties of the scalp or body. Around 1 per cent of men and women get this ailment. This kind of hair loss tend to heal after some time.

In the beginning the patient gets aware of a hairless spot on his head, the beard, or another location on the body. The skin on these spots is in no way changed, it's just not a hair there. At the rim of the area there are often small hairs with a small point at the base. The spots are mostly round or oval. Sometimes there is only one spot, in others more.

The spots tend to grow larger and flow together, sometimes the patient for a time is  completely hairless on the head (alopecia totalis) or entire body (alopecia universalistic ') or without eyebrow or pubic hair. The disease is not dangerous but has above all cosmetic follows, which may represent major psychological stress for the patient.

The hair will often return after some time by itself. For 90% of the patients the symptoms disappeared after two years. When the hairs begins to grow out again, they can be without pigments the first time.

The exact cause of the condition is not known, but there is probably an autoimmune reaction against the hair follickle that the hair grows out from.

A usual regimen with tihs condition is to wait till it resolves by itself. Steroid hormons have sometimes shown to be useful as treatment. Sometimes it is recommended to use a wig to help for cosmetic consequences and following psychological problems.