During pregnancy, women often notice that the state of her skin, nails and hair is significantly improved, as if the very Mother Nature takes care that the expectant mother was beautiful. What is disappointing is the woman when she was puzzled to notice increased hair loss after giving birth and almost resigned to the loss of such a beautiful head of hair. What is the cause of such changes in the female body and whether it is possible to resist the process of hair loss after giving birth?

Hormones

During pregnancy, improvement of hair is associated with a good saturation of the body with vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. But the main merit of the fact that the hair begins to fall out less in expectation of the child, still belongs hormones. Elevated levels in the blood of pregnant women the hormone estrogen stimulates cell division at the level of the hair bulb, thereby extending the life cycle of hair. This leads to an increase in the number of hairs, which are at the growth phase, and thus leads to an increase in their density.

After birth, hormones begin to change, the level of female hormones decreases, and almost back to normal, which can not but have an effect on the condition of hair. It stimulates their growth reduced the role of estrogen, and they are beginning to fall out. Young mothers are very scared not just hair loss, and is the intensity with which it occurs. However, if you think logically, then we can understand that all the hair, whose life cycle is increased due to the increased role of estrogen in a woman's body must sooner or later fall. That is why the amount of hair fall significantly and noticeably so.

Nutrients

Usually intensive hair loss begins for 3-4 months after birth. It was during this period of hormones returns to his usual mode of operation. Also, if during pregnancy almost all women take extra vitamins, after birth, few people think that during lactation the body of a woman takes a lot of nutrients, which also need to make up. That is why during the breastfeeding period Breastfeeding: notes   Mom allowed pediatrician should take a vitamin complex. This will not only help your baby get all the nutrients of milk, but will maintain a healthy level of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients in the mother's body, and therefore, provide a normal diet of the hair roots.

For example, hair loss may be due to a deficiency in the female body calcium, iron, vitamin Vitamins for everyone   D, magnesium and other nutrients. That is why you need to take a multivitamin, to not aggravate the hair loss due to hormonal changes in the absence of a sufficient level of nutrients.

Stress and chronic sleep deprivation

Since the life of the newly-made mothers after childbirth is full of excitement and anxiety, then the cause may be the trigger intense hair loss. After all, stress often cause thinning hair. If the nervous stress, and is complemented by the lack of normal sleep, the situation with hair loss can be critical. To solve the problem with sleep, you should try at first to stick to routine infant's life. And if in the first months of a child's life the mother can only dream of an uninterrupted eight-hour sleep, then arrange a daily rest it is quite on the shoulder. Rather than try to sleep during the day the child to alter a lot of cases, you need to relax and rest, too. This will help save a lot of effort, energy and nerves. Soon you are surprised to find that all have time to remake the rest of the time, and your appearance with only wins.

Mechanical damage

Of course, in time trouble, which lives in the mother first months of life is difficult to talk about styling or regular haircuts. However, even for reasons of practicality do not let yourself constantly collect hair in a tight bun or tail pull taut rubber band. Maybe the hair at the same time and will not interfere, but the fact that they will become brittle and lifeless tested on the experience of many. Also, try as little as possible to use rollers, high temperature regime dryer, curling irons and hair. All this can only aggravate the condition of the hair.

Solution

For hair loss does not become a new reason for the stress, do not forget about the hair care Hair: structure, characteristics of growth and development Regularly take vitamins and try to get plenty of rest. If the intensity of hair loss does not stop for a long time, it would be best to seek help from trihologu.

  Natalia Biatova

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