Medical Guidance/Huang Xiaoqing, Deputy Chief Physician of Traditional Medicine Outpatient Department of Guangdong Second People’s Hospital.
Ordinary people generally have 100,000 hairs on their heads, and their growth and survival period can last up to 6 years. Does that sound optimistic?
However, when more and more hair is lost, the hairline moves backward at a young age, the "M-shaped forehead" is covered up every day, men in their 30 s have a "Mediterranean" appearance, and even the post-90 s are worried about "baldness", the problem of young hair loss is particularly prominent.
Spring and summer are the seasons when hair loss occurs frequently. Guangzhou Daily’s all-media reporter consulted traditional medical experts and learned that the causes of hair loss in young people are different, and three types can be distinguished. Every day, Chinese medicine diet can be used to regulate qi and blood and help the hair to grow back slowly.
Text/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter He Xuehua Correspondent Zhu Lushi
Data: 84% of people have hair loss troubles before they are 30 years old.
A head of black and luxuriant hair makes people full of vitality, but now many men and women are troubled by premature hair loss and white hair.
Especially the problem of hair loss, Huang Xiaoqing, deputy chief physician of the traditional medicine clinic of the Second People’s Hospital of Guangdong Province, said that the population with hair loss in China is growing day by day, and at the same time it is showing a trend of youthfulness. According to the data of the World Health Organization, at present, one in every six Chinese suffers from hair loss, and the proportion of hair loss before the age of 30 is 84%.
A 20-year-old boy’s hair has fallen off into baldness, so it is easy to judge the problem, but how to find out whether it is abnormal hair loss in time?
Huang Xiaoqing said, under normal circumstances, 70~100 hairs are lost every day, which is physiological alopecia. However, if the number of shedding is more than usual every day, if it lasts for two or three months, and the hair is sparse visually, or the hair loss gradually forms spots and flakes, we should be alert to pathological hair loss and may suffer from alopecia.
Case: I can only wear a hat when my hair falls off.
When you get older, your hair will naturally be less luxuriant, but in your twenties and thirties, your hair loss will be abnormal, which is often alopecia areata, seborrheic alopecia, resting alopecia, growth alopecia, endocrine alopecia, drug-induced alopecia, etc. In women, the most common is postpartum alopecia.
Three months ago, Huang Xiaoqing received such a woman. Pang Mingli (pseudonym), 30, just gave birth to two children. The eldest son and youngest daughter are lively and lovely, and they are envied by friends. Behind the joy, Lili has a big problem: from birth to 6 months, her little daughter not only has no breast milk to feed, but also has a painful and weak waist. What’s more, her postpartum hair loss is serious. "Every day, her hair is falling off one by one, and she can only wear a hat when she goes out." Lili confided to Huang Xiaoqing that if this continues, she will be bald.
What Lili doesn’t understand most is that everything is fine after giving birth to her first child, her body is normal, and there is no problem of hair loss at all. How can there be so many problems after her second child?
"This is a typical type of hair loss due to deficiency of qi and blood. During breastfeeding, the mother is tired and tired, and she lacks sleep for a long time. Many postpartum women suffer from deficiency of qi and blood, resulting in hair loss." After a detailed diagnosis, Huang Xiaoqing suggested that Lili should be treated with traditional Chinese medicine for at least one month, so as to fully regulate qi and blood, tonify kidney and replenish essence.
Sure enough, after taking traditional Chinese medicine for conditioning, Lili’s hair slowly returned to normal growth and gradually bid farewell to the problem of hair loss.
Three kinds of young hair loss should distinguish the cause and recuperate.
The problem of hair loss affects the appearance, and the hair loss is serious, which will make people feel insecure over time. In addition to going to the hair loss specialist for diagnosis and treatment, many people look forward to daily maintenance, such as eating walnuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, American ginseng, etc., to take advantage of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, so as to protect hair and raise hair.
Huang Xiaoqing pointed out that diet is more reliable for hair care, such as not eating too sweet, too fat, too hot, and so on. It is necessary to distinguish the cause of hair loss and adopt Chinese medicine diet therapy for hair loss.
The first type: damp-heat alopecia
Some people have heavy tastes and often eat some greasy and spicy food. In the long run, it will lead to the accumulation of phlegm and heat in the body, and the damp heat will be fumigated upwards, and the hair will often fall off, forming damp-heat alopecia, which is our common seborrheic alopecia. This type of patients usually show as: overweight, easy to feel sleepy, greasy hair, head and face, and easy to produce phlegm.
Expert’s suggestion: Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, black sesame, fried white lentils, Smilax glabra, Coix seed, Euryale euryales and so on can be added to the daily soup.
The second type: hair loss due to deficiency of qi and blood.
Hair loss due to deficiency of qi and blood is often accompanied by long-term poor sleep, intense work or study pressure, malnutrition, postpartum fatigue of women, etc. At this time, patients may have dizziness or dizziness, pale complexion and lips, shortness of breath and fatigue, and women may also have problems such as delayed official holidays and light color. These manifestations may be deficiency of qi and blood.
Experts suggest that such patients should first relax, ensure normal meals and work and rest, and pay attention to strengthening nutrition. At ordinary times, they can also try Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Black Sesame, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Angelica sinensis and Polygonatum sibiricum to recuperate their bodies.
The third type: yang deficiency alopecia
There is also a young type of hair loss, which is caused by yang deficiency (kidney deficiency). Yang deficiency leads to yang deficiency, which can’t reach the "warm" scalp and hair roots at the top, which will naturally lead to hair loss.
Kidney is the foundation of congenital kidney deficiency, and the main manifestations of kidney deficiency are hair loss, backache and lack of energy. Patients with kidney-yang deficiency are more afraid of cold, their limbs are not warm, and they are prone to bad eyes and tasteless mouth. Some female patients will also have increased white hair.
Expert advice: people with yang deficiency should pay attention not to eat cold and raw food, try not to wash their hair at night, wipe it clean immediately after each hair wash, blow dry it with a warm fan, and soak their feet with ginger or mugwort leaves in their spare time to enhance yang.