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Hair loss thyroid problem
Your hair represents you health. Loosing you hair is worrying enough, but sometimes it’s related to other health problems. Hair loss can be caused due to physical situations like hormonal changes, nutritional deficiencies, surgery, medications or thyroid disease in particular.
Hair loss is very common in U.S. American Academy of Dermatology’s Data says, nearly half of all adults will experience hair thinning by age 40 in U.S.A. But thyroid patients may have hair loss earlier and quickly than usual.
Thyroid diseases can be broadly divided into the following categories:
1: Hyperthyroidism – Overproduction of thyroid hormone
2: Hypothyroidism – Underproduction of thyroid hormone
3″ Benign (noncancerous) thyroid disease and Thyroid cancer
When it comes to hair loss thyroid problem, a rapid hair loss is experienced due to underproductions or over productions of the thyroid hormone and it is also one of the main identifying symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »
