How to ensure that that most difficult to destroy tissue of your body doesn’t get destroyed so easily

January 21, 2008

Of all the tissues of your body, the hardest to destroy is your teeth and hair. However it also comes as a surprise that many of us suffer from hair loss. What a colossal effort we must be putting into to ensure the damage !

Most of us ignore the health of our hair to such an extent that we start losing to lose the most difficult to destroy tissues of the body. Discussing hair issues with your friends or at places like the publichealthforums.com are advisable. Here are few tips for you.

In order to understand your scalp type conduce a blotting paper test. For around 2 days, avoid washing your hair and then pres a blotting paper to your scalp for 20 seconds. If the paper goes wet, you have a oily scalp, if it has debris stuck onto it you have a dry scalp and if there’s nothing showing up………relax, it’s a normal scalp J Deficiency of iron and protein can deteriorate the health of your scalp and lead to hair loss. You could be anaemic inspite of being over weighted. So, in order to verify if you are anaemic check your blood Ferritin levels. That’s even better than checking your haemoglobin levels. Apart from regular food intake, ensure daily supplements rich in iron, cystine, isoleucine, leucine and methionine. Treating hair loss, after all, is not an easy job

For oily scalps, daily wash of your hair with a deep cleansing effect shampoo is good. For dry scalps, use a shampoo with moisturizing effect and a heavy condition base on alternate days.

Straightening of hair, perming and ironing should be limited to once a year. Coloring your hair is safe as long as the colors/dyes you are using are high in terms of health quotient.

Avoid applying oil or conditioner in case you have an oily scalp. If you have long hair apply oil only the end points of your hair.

For working women, short hair is the best suited style with respect to maintenance of hair. Monthly trimmings are good.

And for a healthy hair affair, exercise. It helps. Consult your doctor and see if use of medicines like Minoxidil, which was discovered to have reversing effects on baldness, helps your case.

Avoid head massages as they don’t help too much in blood circulation. And hot oil treatment is not good for any type of scalp since it takes away the moisture content.

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