Hair Loss treatment in young patients with anemia
A young female patient in our hair transplant clinic in Los Angeles who asked us a question about Iron deficiency anemia and best hair loss treatments. She stated that she had prolonged menstrual period and her hair specialist doctor told her, she had male patterned hair loss. She is also diagnosed with Iron deficiency anemia for a while. The question that brought up was about Iron deficiency in women and whether or not it can cause hair loss in male pattern baldness. And if so, can treatment of iron deficiency help to reverse this balding process?
Iron deficiency anemia that could be seen with or without gross anemia can absolutely be the reason for hair loss in women. If the cause of hair loss was only iron deficiency and you are not genetically prone to anemia, hair loss could be reversible. Yet in many situations, patients are genetically prone to hair loss and Iron deficiency only accelerates the process. the anemia patients of this kind must be seen by a good hair transplant doctor for accessing of their balding problem. Accelerated hair loss could be seen in both male pattern balding and female pattern hair loss, in which hair loss may not be reversed by correcting this elemental deficiency.
