Differences between normal hair loss and androgenetic alopecia baldness

Differences between androgenetic hair loss and alopecia

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Many people confuse the notion of losing their hair on daily basis with androgenetic hair loss, or alopecia. We'll explain the differences in reverse:

In the second case, baldness or androgenetic hair loss (named alopecia androgenetica) means that the hair follicles will shrink in time producing smaller and smaller hair, up to the point when they become so small and so colorless that they are almost invisible.
Bald men that experience alopecia do have hair. However, the hair is very tiny and with no pigment.
Who took a look at the scalp skin of a person with alopecia could actually see the hair which became miniaturized. This form of bald hair is called vellus hair.
Once the hair reached the vellus stage, there is nothing you can do to bring it back to its normal form.
What causes aloecia baldness? What are the causes of alopecia Balding?

You can read on this page what causes the baldness; what are the causes of balding based on alopecia?
In the first case of "normal" hair loss, the daily hair a person loses, this is a completely natural process which ends in a daily healthy portion of hair shedding of 80-100 hair strands per 24 hours. This hair loss process is not alopecia and it is normal even if we do not like it.
Hair is constantly produced in the follicle matrix and it pushes the existing strand upwards.
The "dead" hair strand has to fall in order to make room for the newly produced one.
Therefore what we see when we shower is the product of normal hair loss.

The average human head has about 100,000 hair follicles that produce, on average, 140.000 hair strands. Each follicle can grow about 20 individual hairs in a person's lifetime.
Average hair loss is about 30 to a maximum of 90 to 110 strands a day, being strongly influenced by life style and genetic predisposition to alopecia and complete baldness.

However, there are several cases when this daily hair loss can become quite significant.
In this case it is important to pay attention to several factors that determine excessive and abnormal hair loss.
What causes excessive hair loss? Read about them on this page...