Certain everyday habits can lead to hair thinning and hair loss! If you do not stop them right away, you can become bald in no time!

In today’s post, we will list out the 10 common bad habits that can cause hair loss and hair thinning! Please watch this short episode till the end and save your hair!

PREVENTABLE REASONS FOR HAIR LOSS:

10: Hot Showers: Hot water dehydrates hair strands making them dry and brittle by stripping away your hair’s natural oil coatings. These hair are prone to snap and fall out.

9: Using a Hair Dryer in Hot Mode or heated styling products can considerably damage your hair and make them thinner.

8: Brushing or Combing Wet Hair: Aggressive towelling or brushing or combing your wet hair can cause damage to your hair.

7: Tight Hairstyles: Hair follicles are stressed and eventually damaged when there is excessive tension from tight hairstyles. This can result in Traction Alopecia.

6:  Stress: Yes this is one of the main reasons for hair loss. Stress not only affects your mental or physical health, it also causes significant hair loss. Hair loss can occur upto three months or later after a stressful event in your life due to hair follicle phases. When you are in stress hair follicles go into the telogen phase – that’s the fall out phase.

5: Diet: Lack of Balanced Nutritious food. Healthy lustrous hair require you to consume diet full of vitamins, minerals and proteins.

4: Excessive Scratching your Scalp during Itch – can also lead to hair follicle damage.

3: Vigorous combing can cause traction alopecia as discussed in point number 4.

2: Excessive Use of hairstyling products: Many styling products can cause more harm that good. This is due to high alcohol content in them, they can make hair dry and brittle.

1: Medications: Yes! if you are on certain drugs, this can cause hairloss.  Drugs like statins, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety agents, anti-hypertensive medications  or hormones (like thyroid replacement drugs) can cause hair loss, as well as birth control pills, can disrupt or interfere with the normal cycle of hair growth, causing hair to go into a resting phase and fall out prematurely.