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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The normal scalp contains about one lakh hair with a normal growth of about 12 centimetres in a year.Every day 40 to 100 hair are lost and replaced in healthy human beings. If the loss of hair is more than the replacement, then the condition of baldness sets in.

Alopecia is the name given to the condition when there is loss of hair, either partial or general. Due to changes in the follicles which deprive it of its power to form hair. It may be thinning of the head or complete baldness.

Alopecia is of four kinds:
  1. Alopecia congenita
  2. Alopecia prematura
  3. Alopecia senelis
  4. Alopecia areata

Treatment for baldness - falling of hair