| Thankfully, with the advancement of medical science | | | | scalp. Also, scalp extension has been a surgical hair |
| and technology, no African American woman ever | | | | replacement therapy used extensively even for |
| again has to live with hair loss as long as they can find | | | | African American women, and it has yielded |
| the hair replacement techniques that will work for | | | | immensely encouraging results. |
| them. This article looks at some of the solutions that | | | | African American women suffering from hair loss |
| can work very well for African-American women | | | | should shun any form of unhealthy diet and focus |
| suffering from loss of hair. | | | | instead on diets that are rich in vitamins and helpful |
| Minoxidil is a topical solution that has been known to | | | | minerals. Vitamins are already known to help promote |
| effectively fight hair loss. It has been in use for a | | | | hair growth because they bring life to dead cells on the |
| number of decades, and it has no known harmful side | | | | skin, helping to discard parts of the scalp that aren't |
| effects. Minoxidil was developed actually to fight | | | | productive, and to bring about new skin that will grow |
| hypertension, but further research showed that it is | | | | hairs. |
| very helpful also in arresting hair loss. One thing though, | | | | Hormone hair replacement therapy is good for African |
| you have to stay on this medication indefinitely if you | | | | American women as well because it helps to stop the |
| want the positive results to persist. | | | | formation of dihydrotestosterone in women. |
| Surgical hair replacement is also a very helpful option | | | | Dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, is a substance that binds |
| for all women of African American descent. By | | | | with the testosterone hormone and causes the death |
| surgical hair transplantation, skin with live hairs and live | | | | of hairs. This is often more common in |
| hair follicles can be extracted from the back of the | | | | postmenopausal women, but it can be stopped and |
| head and grafted to the dead or infected part of the | | | | even reversed with hormone therapy. |