Hair Plays no Less Important to Groom your Personality

By: Dr (Hakeem) Aslam Javed

As healthy physique adds to human personality, thick silky shining locks beautify your look and make you attractive. But generally we go careless about them and wake up when health conditions have been deteriorated and things have gone so worse that damage cannot be reversed. Hair should be cleansed twice a day with a good shampoo to keep them smooth and shiny and to safeguard them against various diseases and dandruff. Using low quality cosmetics and shampoos reduce hair growth about 12-15 centimeters yearly. Hairs,which liftweight around 100 kg, suffer severe damage. Western world spends more than four billion pounds for hair care. According to researchers experts have always worked on hair beautification to make them shiny and smooth. Glued shampoo was used first time in 1952. The word shampoo is of Hindiorigin. They said that God Almighty had made hair to groom human personality. In sixteenth century olive oil mixed with other things was used to protect hair. Eighty percent North Americans and ninety percent Japanese wash hair twice a day in order to keep them healthy. Women's hair grows faster than men's. Hair starts graying among Asians and Africans at the age 47. The root cause of Hair problems which range from graying and falling to dandruff and fungus is tension and social problems in our daily life. Hectic life style and carelessness towards health have made hair problems common like other health issues. But it relieves that baldness is not a problem cannot be solved. All hair can be implantedand medical science has got very much advanced in this respect. It is necessary to intake water as much as possible to avoid hair problems and keep skin radiant. Fresh juice, fruits and vegetables should be taken and oily intake, fast food and cold drinks should be avoided. Women who take healthy food can prevent such problems. Experts advise to spare some time to take care of health and discourage money making mechanisticlife. Life today has been machine-like and on top of it unhealthy food adds to injury. Lack of healthy diet has given a rise to diseases. Baldness partial or complete is called hair loss. It happens because of an illness, dysfunction of an organ or a hereditary factor. The situation deteriorates gradually. According to a rough idea around hundred hairs fall or break every day. There are around one lakh hairs on a scalp and each hair's life spans over four and a half years approximately. During the time it grows half inch in a month and generally it falls off in fifth year then another hair takes its place. Genetic baldness is caused because of disability of body to grow new hairs and not because of excessive hair fall. Hair starts thinning in both men and women with age advancing. Hereditary or complete baldness affect men more than women. Baldness starts at the age of thirty in 25% men and they become two third bald or become completely bald at the age of sixty. Baldness in men is a thin line around head like crown or big bald patches. In some people hair is left only in the sides of head like horseshoe. For complete genetic or symbolic baldness male hormone Testosterone is responsible. Those who lack Testosterone face such symbolic baldness. Some women have signs of a certain type of baldness. These signs in women are different from those in men because of genes, age factor or male hormones. Baldness in women reduces hair on whole scalp except the front part. Baldness is generally caused not out of a disease but it is because of advancing age, hereditary factor and lack of Testosterone. Often a combination of these causes is seen in baldness of men and women. Other possible reasons causing baldness may be hormonal changes caused by the following:

• Thyroid disease
• Giving birth to a child
• Having contraceptive pills
• A dangerous disease (tumor in womb or in adrenal gland) or fever
• Medicinal use like cancer or cameo-therapy
• Excessive use of shampoo
• Physical or mental stress
• Psychological habits like pulling hair or rubbing scalp
• Burn or laser treatment
• Alopecia, the bald patches appear on scalp
• With beard eyebrows and eyelashes also fall off
• TineaCapitis, the Scalp ringworm