How to prevent brittle and gray hair

     Hair covers almost the entire human body. The main attention is drawn to themselves & nbsp; head hair. Every person, especially women, wants their hair to be thick, lush, shiny, healthy looking, and hair to fall out as little as possible. Hair is a kind of organ that reacts to the state of the body and to the action of external irritating factors. This shows up in the form of hair. What processes make hair less attractive or unhealthy? What are the internal and external causes of these processes?

Grey hair. Causes of early gray hair

      The composition of the hair includes more than 40 trace elements and substances. It was revealed that dark hair contains a lot of lead, silver, titanium, manganese. But gray hair contains only nickel along with air bubbles. Why is this happening? Why does hair turn gray? Usually gray hair is a physiological reaction of aging and is associated with a violation of the production of melanin in melanocytes. Gray hair at a young age can be triggered by some diseases.

Causes of early gray hair:

• Autoimmune diseases, pernicious anemia, iron deficiency anemia, thyroid disease, vitiligo, Weiner's syndrome.
• Also, hair can turn gray due to skin diseases – herpes, erysipelas, alopecia areata.
• Gray hair may appear after long-term use of certain medications – rezoquine, hydroquinone, chloroquine, phenylurea.
• Incorrect operation of some organs – liver, kidneys.
• Hormonal failure and metabolic disorders.
• Early graying of hair can appear with frequent hair coloring - hydrogen peroxide accumulates in the hair.

As you can see from the causes of gray hair, frequent stress is not the main cause of gray hair, contrary to popular belief. Stress provokes the development of diseases that can cause gray hair, and not only.

Treatment and prevention of gray hair

   In order to stop the process of development of gray hair in the hair, you need to understand the reason. When diseases are detected, it is important to compensate and treat them first. To stop gray hair, drugs are prescribed that stimulate the body, including melonocytes, to produce melanin – vitamins C, E, A, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, B vitamins, folic acid, and methionine. Along with this, the patient is recommended a regular balanced fortified diet.

To mask the gray hair in the hair, coloring with vegetable or organic chemicals is widely used.

It is important to remember that frequent coloring causes dermatitis, brittleness and thinning of the hair. Therefore, you need to periodically lubricate the scalp with vegetable fats, make hair masks.

Trichoclasia. Causes of increased brittle hair

     Trichoclasia – this is a pathological condition of the hair, which is accompanied by their increased fragility of the hair and is manifested by their frequent breaking off. This is hair dystrophy, which is characterized by the appearance of nodules on the hair shaft. These knots make the hair brittle and weak where they form. With trichoclasia, the hair breaks so easily that many so-called debris appear on the head. Hair breakage is very common among all ages and genders. Only often people whose hair breaks refer  to the wrong shampoo.

    Trichoclasia   or brittle hair develops when hair is exposed to aggressive environmental factors. These include frequent use of a hair straightener, curling iron, hair dryer. Also, very frequent washing degreases the hair and provokes the development of trichoclasia. Frequent hair styling with a large amount of gels, foams and varnishes, prolonged exposure to direct sunlight and combing wet hair with a metal comb – all this inevitably leads to  hair breakage.

Under the microscope, such hair looks like a broom – has many tips from one hair. The structure of the hair in places between the nodules remains normal. And near the nodule there is no medulla of the hair.

There are no problems in diagnosing trichoclasia, since nodules on the hair and increased brittleness of the hair in these places are observed only with trichoclasia.

Treatment and basic measures to prevent hair breakage

    Since the causes of hair breakage are exposure to aggressive environmental factors, malnutrition and strict diets, the treatment is based on the exclusion of these factors and the normalization of nutrition. It is recommended to take vitamins A, E, as well as zinc and iron preparations. It is necessary to exclude the use of hair dryers and curling irons, regularly make hair masks based on vegetable oils, use oily hair lotions. It is also recommended to shorten the length of the hair somewhat, as the hair breaks more easily under its own weight.

If the hair is still breaking after refeeding, this indicates that the patient has a genetic defect in the hair shaft. In such cases, you need to compensate for the process by regularly applying vegetable masks.