Sudden hair loss gets many people worried about getting bald as some of them are not aware of how to stop hair loss. There are various causes for sudden unexpected hair loss. Your scalp has its own hair renewal process where it goes through a hair replacement process in order to replace the old, dry and dying hair with the new hair.

There has been advances in recent years to develop medication that cannot only stop hair loss but also reverse it. Some are FDA approved which spells one thing that they have heavy side effects as do the rest of the FDA medication but a others are herbal, therefore have no side effects like their cousins. These herbal alternatives can be found online. Others can be found over the counter if you are lucky as pharmacies often avoid selling any medicine that has no side effects (not FDA approved).

Different types of medications can cause hair loss and these include but not limited to chemotherapy, birth control pills and blood thinners which all can result in possible sudden hair loss. Some people could experience hair loss after a long fight with an illness and this is typically transitory.

If you have got thyroid disease, it doesn’t matter whether it is overactive or under-active you could encounter sudden hair loss. Some pregnant women do experience sudden hair loss as a result of hormonal loss after delivery, this condition with regress as the hormones return to their normal levels.

If you hate hair loss then please do yourself a favor by not wearing your hair too tight as in braids, buns and ponytails as these hair styles usually weaken and scar the roots causing damage to your hair which consequently begin to fall off.

Hair loss can be experienced by both man and women. But if you are experiencing pattern baldness then there are certain signs to look for depending on your gender. The sign of male pattern baldness is the receding hair line while in females it is the thinning hair all over the scalp.

There are many types of remedies for pattern baldness one of which is wearing a wig if you are female or shave your head if you are male. But there are also a few online products that can literally stop hair loss by inhibiting the main villain in hair loss i.e. Dihydrotestostrone (DHT) which is a hormonal byproduct of testosterone that has been shown to shorten the growth phase of hair by retarding follicle growth.