When you are under stress, you will feel exhausted or anxious, you will have trouble concentrating, and even getting sick with an upset stomach or a headache. Stress can be one of the most common causes of hair loss.

Why can stress make your hair fall out?

When you are restless or under stress, your body produces extra hormones to prepare itself to deal with whatever it thinks of as being a potential threat. This type of change in your hormone levels affects your whole body. When these extra hormones are produced, they can affect the growth patterns of the hair follicles on your scalp.

Following factors can cause this type of stress that leads to hair loss:

• A chronic illness
• Pregnancy
• A physical injury
• Chronic emotional stress
• Stopping the use of oral contraceptives
• Malnutrition
• Vaccinations
• Antidepressants
• Fever and acute illness
• Jetlag
• A surgical procedure

Different types of stress-related hair loss

Stress can lead to a number of different conditions that cause hair loss on their own, such as:

Alopecia Areata- When your big clumps of hair in patches get loosen up around your scalp and form patches.

Telogen Effluvium- When more than usual hair, stop growing across your scalp.

Trichotillomania- When you pick and pull out the hair on your head or around your body unintentionally.

Worrying about hair loss can also be a nasty cycle. It’s easy for people to get anxious about losing their hair, which results in increasing the stress levels, and can cause even more hair loss. The foremost thing to try to do is to reduce your stress levels. This will help keep your scalp and hair as healthy as possible.

How do you treat stress-related hair loss?

If stressed or anxious and you are losing your hair because of that, then the first thing to do is to get your stress levels under control. By following the below tips, you will notice hair regrowth and your hair should grow back in a few months

Some tips for dealing with stress:

• Get plenty of sleep every day for 7-8 hours
• Try to eat healthy and drink lots of water
• Avoid too much caffeine or sugar
• Exercise regularly
• Practice meditation or yoga
• Talk to a friend or consultant about your problems if needed
• If you’ve been through a physical accident or illness take proper rest and let your body recover
• Most of all, try not to panic. Remember that hair loss because of stress is only short-term and can be completely reversible.

Conclusion

Talk to your hair expert and your doctor if you are not able to control the factors that are causing you stress resulting in hair loss. Try if the above mentioned tips will help you to deal with it.

Book your appointment with Advanced Hair Studio today and get your condition checked. Advanced Hair Studio has been providing various hair treatments to people all around the world.