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Severe, an unattended thyroid condition can cause hair loss problems. Understanding how it happens is the first step towards preventing it. Such conditions occur when the thyroid gland either produces too much of a specific hormone or too little of a specific hormone.
Underactive Thyroid or Hypothyroidism causes the fluctuation in hormones which can further cause symptoms like gaining weight to fatigue. Hypothyroidism develops very slowly, and many people do not experience the symptoms until months or even years later after they have it.
On the contrary, overactive Thyroid or Hyperthyroidism also causes fluctuation but has symptoms like nervousness and losing weight. Both of these conditions cause hair to become brittle and become thin on your scalp. Here is all that you need to know about hair loss due to Thyroid.
What are the Symptoms of Thyroid?
Due to overactive or underactive Thyroid, hair loss problems develop slowly. The hair gradually starts to become thinner and completely malnourished. You start losing your hair, and it becomes a uniform hair loss. Around 100 hairs fall every day due to becoming malnourished.
A few people stress the medications are causing going bald. However, it might have more to do with the pattern of air growth. People also experience balding even when they begin their medications to assist with their condition. Fortunately, balding brought about by thyroid conditions is normally brief.
The Connection between Thyroid and Hair loss!
Firstly we need to understand how our hair grows to understand why we experience hair loss due to thyroid conditions.
- Hair begins developing at the root in the lower part of your hair follicle on your scalp.
- Your hair grows, and when your blood vessels in the scalp provide nourishment to the roots making more cells.
- When your hair grows out through your skin, they go through the oil glands, making them look healthy, shiny, and soft.
- The hair falls out after it grows for some time as each new regrowth cycle starts.
When the production of hormones is disturbed, it causes fluctuation and influences different cycles in the body. It also includes the improvement of your hair quality. When the hair falls out and is not substituted by newly developed hair, it results in hair quality diminishing across your scalp and different areas, such as your brows.
An immune system condition is regularly seen with thyroid conditions that cause balding patches in more discrete regions called Alopecia. But over the long haul, however, this condition may cause hair to fall on the scalp. Other immune system illnesses may also prompt balding and are frequently connected to thyroid issues.
Certain medications like Carbimazole and propylthiouracil are antithyroid medications that are used to treat thyroid conditions may, in uncommon cases, likewise add to hair loss. It can likewise be difficult to discern whether the medication or your thyroid condition is making your hair diminish because of the hair’s cycle.
What are the Way outs?
There are several ways to treat such conditions, both with medications and using home remedies. You can slow down the hair fall process and keep your thyroid condition under control by using various methods.
1. Never delay Symtomps and take “Medications” Immediately
Some thyroid conditions don’t generally lead to hair diminishing. Keeping them under control with the help of medications under a doctor’s supervision will keep your hair thicker and redevelop them faster. Since it takes time for hair to regenerate, you will gradually feel the difference when your hair starts looking healthier.
It is best to consult your doctor for medications for these thyroid conditions. It is also necessary to have your doctor monitor your thyroid level while on the medications.
During the treatment, hair development might be visible after some time, and also that the new hair development may vary in shade or texture from your previous hair.
2. Try some “Natural Remedies”
Along with these medications, it is also important to keep yourself overall healthy and try home remedies which can also help slow down the balding and redevelop natural hair growth.
Eating food full of entire nourishments is a very important step towards your wellbeing. When you eat food sources that are wealthy in calcium and are also being treated for hypothyroidism, you can try timing them at a difference of four hours after taking your medication for the best results in absorption.
Avoid eating food that causes inflammatory reactions such as processed and fatty food and alcohol and caffeine; all such consumptions will deteriorate your thyroid condition and cause hair loss. Consume more anti-inflammatory food such as turmeric and ginger, which improves the endocrine system that the Thyroid is a part of, so it might help in a thyroid condition.
If you have an autoimmune thyroid condition, you should also watch your iodine consumption. Iodine helps the body produce the thyroid hormone, so too much intake can cause an imbalance and a fluctuation in the hormone level. Food and medications contain iodine, so it is best to know what you are consuming and what to avoid.
Keep your hair in good condition while treating them with utmost care. Avoid pulling or tying your hair too tightly. Be gentle while brushing your hair, and use a wide-toothed comb to brush through your hair; try loosening knots lightly with your hands first, and then use a comb. Giving your hair the utmost care is important to prevent hair fall.
It can be very frustrating doing all of this and seeing no results, but regeneration of hair is a very slow and gradual process; it does not happen overnight. It may take up to several weeks and even months, but this doesn’t mean that you should feel sad and give up.
Hair loss also comes with anxiety and a drop in confidence; we all need emotional support; try consulting your doctor about counseling or support groups that might help you build up that confidence again. You even try sporting a wig if you like till your hair regenerates completely.
Whatever happens, it is usually the best decision to consult a doctor first and then go about trying all the different treatments you can try, as Thyroid does not cause hair loss till the condition is too severe. Hair fall can also be a symptom of some other underlying condition. But with the doctor’s consulted medicine and natural home remedies, you will see changes within some time.
One thing is for sure that nothing is the end of life. You can overcome this and more cause you are strong than this. We Believe in you and you have to do the same with yourself. Only then can you achieve your Goals! Stay Healthy and Stay Fit!
