Ponytails and Braids: Traction Alopecia

by Helene Mansion
(Adelaide, Australia)

Baldness can occur for many reasons. Perhaps you are ill and not getting the right nutrients. Perhaps you inherited the baldness gene from your ancestors.

Perhaps you oily hair is clogging your follicles and killing your hair’s root system. No matter what the cause, however, baldness can be embarrassing and difficult to deal with. For many men every year, it is a major problem.

However, baldness also occurs in women, and in these cases, it can be even more devastating. Although rare, baldness in women does happen.

The causes of this female baldness are often very different from mail baldness, and in some cases, the hair loss could have been prevented.

One such type of preventable baldness that is seen just as commonly in females as it is in males is called traction alopecia.

Traction alopecia occurs when you wear you hair in certain very tight and pull back hairstyles for long periods of time or over the course of many months or years.

Ponytails, pigtails, braids, cornrows, and hair weaves are all culprits that cause traction alopecia.

You see this very commonly among older women who have worn their hair a certain way since they were young for social or religious reasons.

When the hair is pulled back very tightly from the face, you are training it over time to grow that way, and the hair could fall our as a result. In many, it looks like a receding hairline.

Hair weaves, which are ironically sometimes used to hide hair loss, commonly cause traction alopecia. A hair weave can be done by bonding, but the danger for traction alopecia comes with the process known as tracking.

In this technique, the hair is tightly braided in concentric circles around the head and then hair extensions are sewn into these braids. Unfortunately, the braids must be done very tightly and hair weaves are expensive, so many women leave them in for long period so of time.

The result is that the real hair is strained from the pull and falls out. Some women, when removing a hair weave, can pull out clumps of their own hair accidentally.

Traction alopecia also became to be a big problem when facelifts grew in popularity. Many women can’t afford a facelift, so the very cheap alternative is to pull the skin on your forehead by wearing a very tight high ponytail.

Of course, this practice very easily leads to traction alopecia. It is most common in Eastern European countries, like Russia.

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There is no sure-fire way to prevent all hair loss; however, there are some methods that have been used that work on some people.

Even though there are several genetic causes of hair loss, and these causes really have no cure, there are several things that might happen to you where you lose your hair, but you can do something about it.

If you have lost your hair or some of your hair due to some of these reasons, you should know that there are several things you can do at home to make sure that you are going to regrow the healthiest hair.

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