PREVENT HAIR LOSS:WHAT AND WHAT IS A BLUFF

Shampoos, lotions, pills, implants hair ... not all options are equally effective to retrieve the mane
Shampoos, lotions, vitamins, blisters ... the market for hair products using as bait the anticaída effect is increasingly widespread. Not surprisingly, hair loss is an aesthetic issue of great concern to men and especially women. Who does not see that mosque when more hairs in the brush has left on the pillow or in the shower?

The first is not alarmed. That hair fall is normal, what is worrying is that not regenerate. "The problem arises when there is a disparity between the falling hair and born, or when new hair does not have the same quality that has fallen," explains Dr. José Carlos Moreno, president of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV).

In many cases, we usually run, and buy shampoo or shift multivitamin to curb what we think capillary end in tragedy. But how do they work?

"The term" anticaída shampoo "no longer a commercial claim. Have no demonstrated effect on hair loss. A good example of this inefficiency is the famous horse shampoo, "assures Dr. Alejandro Camps ABC.es, dermatologist at the Teknon Medical Center of Barcelona and member of AEDV.

In the case of lotions and vitamins can help control whether to drop a specific stress or lack of any nutrients like iron, "as long as the hair is healthy", clarifies the expert.

If what we have is a problem of androgenic alopecia (common baldness) the only treatments with proven efficacy for halting the loss are minoxidil 5% (lotion) and finasteride (oral treatment), acquired in pharmacies. The first can be used both men and women, but the second is not recommended for females. "To function must be used daily life," he warns Dr. Camps.

Hair Transplant
Another option to recover the hair is very fashionable is the hair transplant. Politicians like Silvio Berlusconi and José Bono and Hilario Pino presenters as they become popular.

The technique involves removing hair from the back of the head and graft in areas where water is scarce. But not everyone is a good candidate for this technique. "You need to have enough hair in the donor area to cover the area of ​​interest. If you wait too long and very aggressive alopecia is not going to be able to transplant, "warns the expert. Also, you have to be patient because the hair soon out eight months to a year.

Currently, there are two hair transplant techniques: strip and FUE. In the first, it is extracted from the back of the head a strip of skin including hair with an approximate range of 1 to 1.5 cm, and the extraction area is closed by a suture leave an almost imperceptible scar.

In the case of FUE, the area where it will catch the hair is shaved, and then the follicular units are extracted one by one. It is ideal for people running the shaved hair, but it is not your case, the strip is, in the words of Dr. Camps, a "faster, more efficient and less torturous" technique. In both cases, the transplanted hair will live as many years as he had done in his home area. "The ideal is to follow a supportive care for the patient not continue to lose hair," he adds.