Healthy Hair Starts Within

Hair & Scalp Problems

Alopecia: There are several forms of alopecia. A Dermatologist or Trichologist can treat all.

Alcohol: Too much drinking of alcoholic beverages dries out your hair and cause constant breakage.

Balding: There are various reasons for balding; stress, medications, changes in body chemistry, menopause, or terminal illness.

Birth Control: Some forms of birth control causes hair loss.

Blow-drying: Too much of this dry heat can damage your hair and cause severe breakage and dryness.

Braiding: Pulling the hair up tightly from the scalp will cause severe balding. Not taking care of braid extensions will cause severe breakage.

Dandruff/Scalp: Some dandruff is due to a zinc deficiency in your diet. Some dandruff is growing dandruff. Some dandruff and flaking are more severe.

3 Solutions

1. Use reputable salon shampoos that fight flaking scalp and itching

Recommendations: Paul Mitchell Tea Tree shampoo and conditioner or Ex-oil by Nexxus

2. Visit a dermatologist. Inquire of a prescription of a medicated shampoo especially for dandruff.

3. Visit a Trichologist: This is a certified hair and scalp specialists who will help identify the underlying problem of flaking. Sometimes meaning a poor diet, changes in body chemistry, health problems, and wrong shampoos.

Avoid heavy hair greases, waxy hair products on scalp. Use light cremes or oils with tea tree oil as an ingredient.

Avoid Cholesterols on the scalp if you have severe flaking.

Diet: Not having enough vitamins & minerals in your diet can cause balding and

breakage. Junk foods can slow down hair growth, and cause your hair to constantly break.

Gray Hair: This beautiful hair can cause hair breakage if not strengthen regularly.

Hair Analysis: Can read what nutrients are lacking in your body.

Medications: Many medications can cause hair loss.

Menopause: Prepare yourself before the hormonal imbalance causes hair loss.

Men's Hair Loss: Most early balding is due to hormones in foods, drugs, and stress

Thyroid: Problems with your thyroid can cause severe balding.

Pregnancy and Afterwards: All the thick healthy hair you gained during pregnancy could

break after child birth due to a temporary hormonal change.

Relaxers & Perms: Applying a relaxer the wrong way can cause balding, scalp

problems, and breakage. Most NO-Lye relaxers cause constant breakage.

Smoking: this causes brittle dry hair that breaks easily.

Stress: This depletes the body of B vitamins.

During high stress times take a good vitamin B complex.