To find out more about Female Hair Loss visit our sister location Buckhead Hair Restoration.

Female hair loss can occur in women for reasons other than female pattern baldness, including the following:

• Temporary shedding of hair (telogen effluvium)
• Breaking of hair (from such things as styling treatments and twisting or pulling of hair)
• Patchy areas of total hair loss (alopecia areata – an immune disorder causing temporary hair loss)
• Medications
• Certain skin diseases
• Hormonal abnormalities
• Iron deficiency
• Under-active thyroid
• Vitamin deficiency