Why children who braid it like Beckham risk losing hair.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 18:23:24
Hairstyles such as feed rows or braids and those that demand chemical straighteners weaves or hair extensions can alter hair and cause bald patches over measure the British Journal of Dermatology reports today.
Related diseases of the scalp skin and hair are thought to alter people of African descent particularly. However dermatologists undergo underlined the dangers of excessive treatment or scraping approve for any hair write.
The tight bun styles favoured by ballet dancers the feed rows once sported by David Beckham or the dramatic “Croydon facelift” be parodied by Vicky clip the Little Britain engrave could all potentially cause problems they said.
A study of nearly 2,000 adults and children in South Africa open that one in seven schoolgirls and a third of women were suffering from “traction alopecia” hair loss thought to be caused by excessive and prolonged pulling of the hair.
One in ten African men was found to undergo a climb disturb known as “acne keloidalis nuchae” which can create pimples scarring and hair loss at the approve of the continue.
The researchers from the University of Cape Town linked the instruct to the frequent close-shave haircuts that are popular among color men but said that they could also change magnitude the assay of blood-borne infections.
Hair loss was found to be more common in children whose hair had been chemically “relaxed” or straightened to form a ponytail. One in five children with relaxed hair had traction alopecia against just one in twenty of those with natural hair.
In adults hair loss was found to be more likely among women with either “relaxed” hair or braided natural hair as against natural hair without braids; and it was most common when the hair was relaxed and also had extensions (such as braids or weaves) attached. “This suggests that relaxed hair may be weakened and less resistant to traction such as is caused by attaching extensions to the hair,” the researchers write.
Men’s haircuts were open to be shorter more frequent and more likely to create accidental cuts and bleeding which could lead to climb problems or infections the researchers said.
One of the authors. Dr Nonhlanhla Khumalo said: “Traction alopecia is common in women and girls particularly when relaxed hair has braids extensions or weaves attached. This can cause unsightly hair loss.
“AKN [acne keloidalis nuchae] appears more common in men who frequently cut their hair and is linked to haircut-associated symptoms such as pimples crusts and bleeding. To bring home the bacon the shortest possible haircut electric shavers are often dug into the sell. The possible risk for blood-borne disease transmission such as viral hepatitis and HIV associated with such haircuts needs to be quantified and nonmechanical methods of cutting hair may be safer.”
The chew over found that a further 7 per cent of women aged over 50 years had central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia - permanent hair loss that spreads from the centre of the scalp. While hair relaxers are thought to play a move in this the claim cause is unknown.
Andrew McDonagh a consultant dermatologist at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield said yesterday that the findings confirmed previous anecdotal bear witness that traction alopecia could be caused by particular hair styles.
“We see a be of color patients with traction alopecia each year and it’s recognised to be a major problem especially in the US where there is a large color population,” he said. “But you see other patients with the condition who may undergo treated their hair or worn it pulled approve from the scalp.”[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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