Can dandruff on my scalp lead to hair loss or baldness?

Dandruff is a condition of scalp that makes the scalp to have flaky skin. These flakes of skin often fall off, the white flaky stuff you notice on your shoulder are dandruff only. Now the main question here is can dandruff cause hair loss? The answer to this question is “Yes”, dandruff tend to cause temporary hair loss.

In most of the case, dandruff and hair loss are not directly connected. Dandruff and hair fall both these situations are not causally-related, but they are somehow correlated. The hair loss due to dandruff happens when your hair follicles get damaged. Furthermore, dandruff can accelerate the thinning of hair in people with androgenic alopecia which may result to baldness as well.

Causes of Dandruff with Hair Loss

Conditions that cause both dandruff and hair loss are:

• Seborrheic dermatitis. In this type of medical condition, the scalp tend to appear red, oily, and scaly. The skin flakes are either white or yellow. The pathogenesis of seborrheic dermatitis is not completely understood yet. There are those that conclude that this condition considered as a consequence of the annexation of the skin by the genus Malassezia. A variety of treatment options are available, which includes the elimination of the fungus and diminishing inflammation, and cutting down on the sebum production on the scalp. If left untreated, it may even lead to uncomfortable pain.
• Contact dermatitis. A variety of hair ingredients such as hair dye or shampoo may cause irritation on the scalp and result to red, flaky scalp skin due to the sensitivity.
• Malassezia. This fungus that can be found on the most of the people’s scalp. It can cause irritation on the scalp.Sometimes, they cause your scalp to growadditional skin cells, which when they die, result to cause dandruff.
• Dry skin. This results to causes small flakes, which aren’t necessarily accompanied by inflammation or redness but they can get accompanied by hair loss.

Preventing Hair Loss from Dandruff

It is important to treat dandruff as much as possible in order to prevent hair loss caused by dandruff. Prevention of dandruff-related hair loss needs to focus on eradicating as much itchiness as possible to get rid of dandruff.

Getting a Diagnosis

There is a lot of reason that might be the cause dandruff, ranging from underlying skin conditions, or even it can depend on how you wash your hair. If someone is unsure of underlying causes of their dandruff, then should seek immediate medical advice. With diagnosis you will be able to know the actual reason of dandruff, whether it’s a skin condition or other symptoms. If you are experiencing hair loss or the issue of thinning hair along due to dandruff that too you will be able to know with this diagnosis. You can get your hair diagnosed at best hair transplant clinic in Varanasi.

Help for Thinning Hair and Balding due to dandruff.

If dandruff in the underlying reason of hair fall in your case,then you can seek medical help and get some medication prescribed for yourself to treat dandruff which might help your hair fall as well. Your doctor might suggest you to go for PRP Treatment in Varanasi. And if your hair fall has gone to such extent where you can feel thinning of hair or facing the situation of balding your doctor might suggest you to undergo hair transplant surgery.

A surgical technique referred to as Hair transplantation where it involves takingout hair follicles from one section of the body, called the ‘donor area,’ and adding it to a thinning hair section known as the ‘recipient area.’ Primarily, the procedure is used to treat baldness.

Hair transplant in Varanasi is mainly done withtwo principal hair transplant methods available that is Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT) and strip and Follicular Unit Excision (FUE) also known as Follicular Unit Extraction. Doctor will choose either one for you according to your condition. Both the techniques are equally effective hair restoration techniques, with a high success rate in patients.