{"id":6171,"date":"2025-01-10T12:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/5-best-rice-water-conditioners-for-silky-hair\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:40:56","slug":"explaining-andro-genetic-alopecia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/explaining-andro-genetic-alopecia\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Andro Genetic Alopecia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Male pattern baldness , Female Pattern Baldness , Common Balding<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGA is the most common type of Non scaring Alopecia , suffered by majority
of the patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mechanism of Action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Explaining<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


In the Body testosterone is converted to DHT by 5-alpha Reductase Enzyme. This Dht molecule is Responsible for Hair thinning , Crown Baldness & Reseeding Hair line or male pattern Baldness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Explaining<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Explaining<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Situation in which possibility of genetic hair loss is very poor :<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) If your Age is less than 22 or more than 48 years<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) If your Parents have no history of Hair loss and your Siblings have good hair too<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) You have history of Dandruff and infection for quite a long time along with Hair loss.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Explaining<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How to Confirm Androgenetic Alopecia ?
Normally Terminal Hair : Vellus Hair<\/strong> Ratio 7:1<\/strong> i.e if you 8 hair in your hand 7 will be thich and mature and 1 will be thin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In AGA (Androgenetic Alopecia) the is ratio 4:1<\/strong> every 4th hair will be thin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What to Confuse AGA with ; Differential Diagnosis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telogen Effluvium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Main complaint hair shedding hoti hai, na ki hair thinning<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Shedding sirf crown ya hairline tak limited nahi hota<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Diffuse Alopecia Areata<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Achanak se diffuse hair shedding, jo patchy pattern me dikh sakta hai<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Eyebrows aur eyelashes bhi affect ho sakte hain<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Exclamation Hair Sign \u2013 Trichoscopy pe dikhai deta hai<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Swarm of Bees Sign \u2013 Scalp biopsy me lymphocytes hair bulb ke aas paas jama dikhte hain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Case of Alopecia Areata , Showing Swarm of Bees on Microscopy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \"Explaining<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Exclamation hair sign , as Seen on Trichoscopy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \"Explaining<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Male pattern baldness , Female Pattern Baldness , Common Balding AGA is the most common type of Non scaring Alopecia , suffered by majorityof the patients. Mechanism of Action In the Body testosterone is converted to DHT by 5-alpha Reductase Enzyme. This Dht molecule is Responsible for Hair thinning , Crown Baldness & Reseeding Hair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7439,"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/7439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fidorehealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}