All you need to know about traction alopecia and how KINDER Hairstyling can fix your hairstyle damage! Ponytails, cornrows, braids and weaves can all have a definitive link to traction alopecia. Although they look gorgeous as well as create a effortless and chic appearance. This common hairstyle style tugs at the hair follicle creating constant pressure and can lead to traction alopecia, which has to be addressed quite quickly as traction alopecia does not only have a curable solution but can only be addressed in its earliest of stages- it can be very difficult to regain your hair growth after a few years once roots are greatly damaged and even permanently impaired.
What is traction alopecia?
Common style which results inhairloss associated to constantpulling force on your hair. Unlike other types of hair loss hormones don’t play a factor. What makes this hairstyle cause hair loss is the amount of pressure placed on your hair follicle, which could result in its swelling leading to damage, and possibly totaldestruction of your root, thus leading to hairloss.traction alopeciais easily located at roots, hair lines or at the temples and seems to target one area themost. The side-strings become shorter leading to areas with thinning patches that turn into noticeable patches of density, where pressure is the highest, once they’re much longer and established.
Hairstyle trends that promote hairloss:
The answer simply is if it adds pull at your roots, then this hairstyle will add pull wear to your hair-
*High up-dos/ponytails
*Tight hair braids/plats
* Extensions/weave extensions
* Cornrow hairstyle-styles
* Tightly placed ponytails or any other things which have the hair section placed on a clip (i.e. Barrette used too tightly) or used elsewhere.
# Traction Alopecia Symptoms are:
To make sure that permanent hairloss is avoided, examine hair roots for sensitivity/lumpiness or sores/ irritation/ stinging of hair. Next, the hair quickly becomes shorter as hair retraction occurs in the roots and thus has thinning patches of density (if your hairloss becomes significant) skin later becomes much smoother as root stops producing hair due to constant trauma.
# How to prevent hair loss in traction alopecia, even before they reach symptoms.
Definitely you can! Wearing fewer tightly pulled style, not as often, is a start. If you are receiving extensions/weaves, do not have them pulled too tightly, notice how often hair is worn in extremely tightened styles; Hair does get weakened by constant pulled style; it does nothing for a sore scalp and if it is happening your styling has done its job to your root of the hair it will come later after follicle removal occurs, traction alopecia doesn’t cure its self by you pulling hair tightly; the roots have been greatly weakened and damaged; once all strands of hair come completely out of follicle it will probably never regenerate another root from the damaged root.
# Can your hair growth occur after traction alopecia, how long?
Certainly, if noticed right away and helped sufficiently! As the result your hair growth would occur after you stop wear a tightly pulled style, and enough amount of time will give root hair enough health to repair it self completely (however, never completely as time frames are very large) if you have had extremely pulled style used for a number of years which cause traction alopecia you may be inneed of a hair graft/ implant to return hair to your hairline and temples, even then you can eventually grow hair roots on that spot and the time frame may increase slightly with more hair roots added later in time.
# Replacing hair due to traction alopecia.
First be sure that traction alopecia is what has been identified to be the problem and discover exactly to what extent your root hair may possibly grow from your healthcare provider/ Barber (its essential the roots are found, if you have live roots, it opens many new possibilities to create hair roots to enhance the density of the certain spot of scalp/roots on your head it gives roots potential to even regain the hair); if the transplant roots grow as a result it can add density to that spot as well as restore hairline/ temples if they’re the affected parts of your head, it gives it that cosmetic lift! It all depends on whether roots are alive and your health factors at hand to determine if cosmetically driven approaches will work on roots.