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Hair Loss at Menopause

Hair Loss at MenopauseHair loss in women tends to lead to serious self esteem issues. But for women in the menopausal stage, usually a common problem, especially between 45 and 55, because during this period, the ovaries stop producing eggs and tends to stop menstruation altogether. And all this involves a large change in hormones, such as the famous hot flashes, night sweats, nausea, headaches and even hair loss. Here are a few tips for you to deal with this condition.

Treatments

It is good to consult with your doctor about it so you can prescribe medication or hormones that prevent the process of further hair loss re generated. Generally these treatments for hair loss are called topics.

Hormone Replacement Therapy

Hormone replacement is a common treatment during and after menopause to help the recovery of the loss of estrogen. Usually it is a prescription pill treatment, your doctor should prescribe. But we must also consider the contraindications of these pills since they have a large load can bring hormonal breast cancer risk, heart disease and possible stroke, it is important to talk first to your doctor and see advantages and disadvantages.

Minoxidil

Minoxidil, also known as Rogaine or Avacor is a drug for hair loss. Is usually worn by men and is purchased at any pharmacy without a prescription. This drug stimulates hair growth.

Natural Treatments

Natural treatments or homeopathy can be very beneficial to the topic of menopause and hair loss in this delicate stage of women. Usually used phytoestrogen herbs like black cohosh and dong quai, for treating low hormone levels. But these two are recommended to use the post menopause to avoid hormone imbalances. But for menopause can opt for herbs like macafem not contain estrogen, but help promote the body’s natural hormones to help grow hair.

As you can see the shapes are different, depending on how natural you want the change or how fast. But as we always say, see a doctor should be your first choice.

Why Stress Affects Your Skin?

Why Stress Affects Your Skin?
Acne, eczema, psoriasis, itchy skin, hair loss, excessive sweating, rosacea, dandruff, herpes oral (mouth sores, cold sors) and urticaria (hives in English). Besides stress contributes to the skin to lose its brightness and looks lifeless.

Stress also causes other skin conditions affecting the lack of sleep, over-eating, smoking, drinking and others.

Why stress affects your skin?
Stress causes hormonal imbalances. When something causes the body reacts by producing stress hormones with different objectives, these hormones: cortisol and adrenaline. The excess of these hormones produces imbalance in estrogen and testosterone in the body and these hormones affect the skin directly.

What to do?
Initially, the eruptions have to control with topical medications or cosmetic creams. But we must eliminate the cause or causes of the problem: stress.

Stress can not be eliminated but can be controlled. Some stress is normal and how harmful it is passed positive life stress.

Managing stress
Exercise. Kill two birds with one stone, you control weight and stress. There are many studies showing that exercise helps manage stress. Especially recommended for stress management are exercises like yoga and martial arts.

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