Black women's hair administration choices can could cause hair loss

Hair administration practices may be causing atramentous women to acquaintance hair loss, which is a above
botheration that about goes undiagnosed, a new analysis finds.

While analysis may play a key role in hair accident a part of atramentous women, administration practices such as braiding, weaves and actinic adequate may aswell access their accident of hair loss, said dermatologist Dr. Yolanda Lenzy, a analytic accessory assistant at the University of Connecticut in Farmington.

She abutting with the Atramentous Women's Health Study at Boston University's Alone Epidemiology Center to analysis about 5,600 atramentous women about their adventures with hair loss.

Almost 48 percent said they had suffered hair accident on the acme or top of the scalp.

"When hair accident is acquired by administration practices, the botheration is usually abiding use. Women who use these administration practices tend to use them repeatedly, and abiding again use can aftereffect in hair loss," said Lenzy.

Even admitting hair accident is accepted a part of atramentous women, added than 81 percent of respondents said they had never consulted a doctor about it.

The arch could cause of hair accident in atramentous women is a action alleged axial centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA). This action causes deepening and abolition of hair follicles that after-effects in scarring and abiding hair loss, advisers said.

About 41 percent of analysis respondents had levels of hair accident constant with CCCA. But, beneath than 9 percent said they had been diagnosed with the condition.

Along with self-monitoring, women can ask their hair stylists to active them to signs of hair loss, Lenzy suggested.

There are a amount of analysis options for hair accident in women, she added, including alienated bound hair styles that put burden on hair follicles and attached use of actinic relaxers.

The allegation were to be presented Monday at the American Academy of Dermatology's anniversary meeting, in Washington, D.C. Allegation presented at affairs are about beheld as basic until they've been appear in a peer-reviewed journal.