Horseshoe Pattern Hair Loss
Recently i ve been writing about a possible explanation for the horseshoe shape of pattern baldness as well as a more specific pathology for the loss hair.
Horseshoe pattern hair loss. I m currently a medical student and i. I will try to keep this simple. There are ways to slow the progression of the. Spot baldness or alopecia areata makes your hair fall out in smooth round patches but it usually grows back.
Beek 1950 beek evaluated 1 000 caucasian males with patterned hair loss and classified them into two types frontal baldness and frontovertical baldness based on the stage of evolution it was a simple classification which described only two stages of hair loss and did not take into account the various evolutionary stages but is important as this was the first attempt to classify hair. Women however can experience hair loss on the crown as well as throughout the rest of the scalp. Other types of hair loss tend to happen faster than male pattern baldness. Hi i see many posts have been deleted here so hopefully mine won t be.
This thread is archived. Unfortunately this is an hereditary condition with no known cure. Once a man with hairloss can make out his horseshoe pattern is it possible or common for any of the horseshoe hair to bald at a later point. Unfortunately if male pattern hairloss progresses and this happens to some of us very young we are inevitably left with this.
The horseshoe is one of the joke ridden elements of the bald man s appearance moreover it can make him look old and unkept. While androgenetic alopecia aga is often associated with a horseshoe pattern of hair loss this is only as it presents in men. Minoxidil there s no cure for male pattern baldness but some medications can slow it down. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.
I think this was because 1 i didn t know and 2 i didn t have the same access to research that. One of the biggest problems associated with male pattern baldness is the notorious horseshoe. Minoxidil is an fda approved over the counter treatment you apply to your scalp. 760 points 7 years ago edited 7 years ago.
I am 26 and while i don t have any bald spots the hair on top of my head is thinner and more limp than the hair on the sides and back of my head. With two thirds of men experiencing hair loss by the age of 35 male pattern baldness is very common not something to panic too much about. I tackled these subjects a little bit in the baldness field but ironically didn t go over them at all in the book hair like a fox.