Hair loss: shampoos, lotions and vitamins are used to stop it? – the 05/07/2019

Anti-hair loss shampoos, lotions, tonics with miraculous properties, vitamins to strengthen the hair, herbal preparations … Every day and all over the world, many products and treatments for hair loss are sold. Because the hair worries a lot of people, because it is a defining characteristic of our image. And that also makes it subject to multiple frauds and disappointments, favored because the fact that hair is perhaps the most changing part of our body and that its evolution over time is unpredictable.

Thus, more than a thousand dermatologists and hair researchers from 70 countries – gathered a few days ago in Sitges (Barcelona) – will devote a part of the XIth World Congress of Hair Research to deny everything that does not work. It is time to treat hair loss and hair loss, the dreaded alopecia. And his conclusions leave no doubt: the revenues of the pharmaceutical industry badociated with the cosmoceuticals –products with unproven medical function, without scientific basis– for the hair, they are thirty times higher than those which generate the products which really have effects on the hair.

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Ramón Grimalt, president of the aforementioned congress and professor of dermatology at the International University of Catalonia (UIC), explains that "the fundamental problem of hair treatments is that the person does not have the ability to know what it would be if she had not done themand that makes cheating easier. "

And he tells that when a person finds that his hair often falls, she usually goes to the pharmacy, at the barber or at the cosmetics store to give her "something" to avoid it. "And after three months, you notice that you deposit less and you attribute this product to this product, but the reality is that the result would have been the same without putting anythingbecause what is happening is that I was changing or replacing my hair, like all mammals, but that humans – because of lifestyle habits, heating, etc. – do not do it in a synchronized way, all at the same time, like the other species ", justifies Grimalt.

Emphasize that it's a common mistake to think that when you lose a lot of your hair, it's because you're losing it, when it's actually a renewal. "We are constantly changing our hair and in four years we will not have it today, and we do it by fall and regrowth cycles; the mistake is to attribute the physiology to the hair problems and take vitamins, shampoos, injections … when naturally in three months the situation will have improved by itself because after the fall, hair regrow, "says the dermatologist.

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And he points out that in addition to being useless to resort to products for hair loss, "it's absurd" because they have no scientific basis. "No shampoo pbades through the skin of the scalp, so they only act on the appearance of the hair and the skin of the head, on the outside; anti-dandruff shampoo is effective, but not anti-hair loss", Explains Grimalt.

He adds that it makes no sense or any scientific basis to take vitamin supplements to strengthen the hair during hair replacement, or to apply "growth" lotions, because this renewal "is a sign of health, and If you have more hair, you change more"

Baldness is another thing

Hair experts emphasize that it's important to point out that balding problems have nothing to do with the periodic loss of hair, the hairs that we see accumulating in the brush, the hair Pillow or shower. "Baldness is another problem, and we do not see it in the shower, but on the pictures"says the UIC researcher.

Explain that there are many forms of baldness and that they have different causes. So, if you find that you are really losing your hair over time, consult your doctor to determine the type of alopecia, whether for genetic reasons or for genetic reasons. a sickness

Androgenetic alopecia is the most common., caused by hormonal and predetermined problems in the genes, and whose evolution can be stopped by the hormonal treatments if it is treated early, before one becomes bald.

Grimalt notes that in recent years there have also been numerous cases of dermatology in many cases of fribrosive frontal alopecia (also called alopecia clown), characterized by a hair loss in the forehead part, as if the hair was recessed and that a hairless headband was open from one ear to the other. "This type of alopecia is increasing and Australians are reporting it on the use of creams with sunscreens, it is neat, but its success is rare," he summarizes.

There are also ferropenic alopecia, caused by a lack of iron, and some derivatives of thyroid problems. From where the need a medical diagnosis before applying any treatment for hair loss. "If from the age of 16 you see that you have entrances or that you have areas of the head with little hair, I went to see a dermatologist to advise you and see if it was worth the treatment, but do not spend on lotions or miraculous "anti-fall" products without a diagnosis, because they do not work, Grimalt concludes.

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