Hair loss problem among young people: one in five suffers
In our country, a boy of five must deal with hair loss. It reveals a study carried out by the IHRF, International Foundation for research on the hair, which, in collaboration with over 100 scattered Italians, dermatologists has analyzed the State of health of coma 10,000 adolescents. The study of available data revealed that 17 percent of adolescents, especially in the age between 13 and 19 years old, suffers from this problem.
In most cases it is androgenic alopecia, or baldness form more widespread. It doesn't matter if they are boys or girls: the production of sebum increases, her hair becoming thinner and increasingly frequently involves a thinning irreversible. The fact remains that we are talking about a problem particularly masculine. In sixty percent of cases, the teenager who loses her hair is male. The cause lies in the fact that the balding is genetic and that the gene responsible for this character, being located on the X chromosome, is related to sex.
However, the phenomenon is also growing among girls and other triggers may be eating disorders, smoking, alcohol and little rest. Excessive use of hair gel, contrary to popular thought, has a less important. Hair loss, itself a problem, also generates a discomfort on the psychological level. The 90 percent of the guys lives, as a priority issue and conditioning, going so far as to consider it an aesthetic impairment and ashamed in 60 percent of cases.
The 35 percent of teenagers who suffers arrives, in certain cases, to isolate themselves and to give to friends and attend school. This is not, however, a problem unsolvable. "It's essential to reassure these guys the opportunity to counter the fall through a dermatological diagnosis as early as possible", says Fabio Rinaldi, President of IHRF. Nowadays there are many therapeutic remedies, such as growth factors, both natural and biotechnological, which can lead to a solution of the problem in 90 percent of these young ".
