Male Hair Treatment Options

Hair treatment can be caused by any number of conditions, from genetics to drugs to diseases. Most often baldness is genetically inherited and passed down from generation to generation. The primary culprit in causing male hair loss is DHT (dihydrotestosterone) which can cause the hair follicles in the scalp to shrink and close up, losing the hair that they grow.

Hair loss, or Alopecia, is the medical term for hair loss treatment. Alopecia does not refer to one specific hair loss disease? Any form of hair loss is Alopecia. While androgenetic alopecia (male or female pattern baldness, AGA for short) is by far the most common form of hair loss, dermatologists also see many other forms. Several hundred diseases have hair loss as a primary symptom. The word alopecia is Latin, but can be traced to the Greek "alopekia," which itself comes from alopek, meaning "fox." Literally translated, the word alopecia (alopekia) is the term for mange in foxes.

Male hair loss can be caused by any number of conditions, from genetics to drugs to diseases. Most often baldness is genetically inherited and passed down from generation to generation. The primary culprit in causing hair loss is DHT (dihydrotestosterone) which can cause the hair follicles in the scalp to shrink and close up, losing the hair that they grow.

While androgenetic alopecia (male or female pattern baldness, AGA for short) is by far the most common form of hair loss, dermatologists also see many other forms. Several hundred diseases have hair loss as a primary symptom.

Millions of men will lose their hair this year and begin to consider how they will react to male pattern baldness. For those who wish to stop the balding, and even find a way to re-grow some of the hair they have lost, Propecia is highly likely to provide very effective results.