“My hair is breaking and thinning out, no one can find the cause of my hair loss and my blood work is fine”. This is a common statement from women reaching out to me for help as Absolique Trichologist.
When hair is breaking it is commonly a hair structure problem rather that a physical thing causing the hair to break.
Hair styling and hair breakage
Most say they have stopped colouring, stopped straightening and curling and even stopped blow drying the hair. But the hair continues to break. This is where you should suspect an internal hair structure problem.
Signs of hair breakage
Loss of hair structure, hair won’t hold curl, loss of natural hair colour, hair won’t hold hair dye colour, changed hair texture, dry brittle no matter what you use, different lengths, hair not growing but can see regrowth, short pieces of hair with no bulb amongst long hair, visually shorter layers without cutting.
Hair breakage – hair structure problem
Hair breakage from poor hair structure or lack of structure are common. Hair is made up of many complex layers. When the hair is not growing properly from a cellular level, hair structure is compromised.
Absolique Trichologist Brisbane can see this easily with microscopic diagnosis. With a microscope we can find your genetic hair type to see where hair structure at scalp level has changed. One of the most common causes of hair breakage from cellular damage is low ferritin and low iron. Ferritin and iron are different, but both can cause hair breakage problems when levels are low.
Hair breakage medical causes
Low levels of iron and low levels of ferritin are not medical problems unless they reach dangerous deficiency states. This is why low iron and ferritin can go on for years unnoticed by your doctors.
Hair loss or hair breakage are not deemed medical conditions. If you go to the doctors with symptoms of hair loss or hair breakage, you are generally not taken seriously. They may do some basic blood tests and get told everything is in range. For hair and health we need sufficient iron and ferritin levels, not just in range.
Hair breakage treatment
Finding and addressing the underlying causes is the best hair breakage treatment. The hair breakage treatment needs to fix the cellular problem to stop the hair breakage from where the hair is growing.
Topical hair products alone won’t work on already broken hair. Once the hair shaft grows for the scalp damaged it cannot be fixed completely. Fixing at the cellular level is the way to go.
Stop hair breakage
As Absolique Trichologist, I would always use a combined approach to address both symptoms and causes. A topical approach will help with the symptom of physical hair breakage with hair and scalp products that are gentle and help soften and repair the hair.
A nutritional approach with food and supplementation is also required to get the right information to the hair cell for healthy hair growth. This is based on blood tests to address individual low or simply for a cellular correction.
Takes time because hair is slow growing, from a cellular level to hair at scalp level is 4 months. Getting to the root cause is required. Once the hair leaves the scalp it is keratinised. The hair shaft is dead but continues to grow from a cellular level – the root cause.
Hair breakage after keratin treatment
When hair structure is broken, it is compromised. Keratin is used for filling in hair cuticle. When hair is already broken, this type of hair coating can make it even more brittle, prevent hair natural elasticity and in turn cause hair breakage.
Hair could can do the same thin, especially hair lightening products. Foils are a technique; it is what’s in the foil that matters.
Hairdressers usually work with due care, but they cannot see if the hair structure is broken. A normal hair colour service can also cause hair breakage if the hair structure is compromised.
Best products for hair breakage
The best products for hair breakage will help to address both the hair that is broken but also at a cellular level to fix the root. In the case of low ferritin, this will have to include nutrition as the best products for hair breakage.
One of our favourite and best products for hair breakage is Activance Clinician. But you still need to address the underlying causes and pair Activance Clinician with the right scalp preparation and prescriptive hair shampoo and hair conditioner.
Hair breakage treatment at home
Absolique Trichologist teaches hair breakage treatment at home from a topical and nutritional level based on microscopic diagnosis and review of blood tests. This way we always know what the underlying cause is, and we get to the root of the problem, required for the best results.
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