Alopecia Areata or Slow Hair Loss? Re-Grow Hair with Red & Near IR Light Therapy
What is alopecia areata? Alopecia is a general term for hair loss. Alopecia areata is a common cause of non-scarring hair loss that can occur at any age. It usually causes small, coin-sized, round patches of baldness on the scalp, although hair elsewhere such as the beard, eyebrows, eyelashes, body and limbs can be affected.
Hair loss is typically related to one or more of the following factors:
- Family history (heredity).
- Autoimmune diseases.
- Hormonal changes and medical conditions. A variety of conditions can cause permanent or temporary hair loss, including hormonal changes due to pregnancy, childbirth, menopause and thyroid problems.
- Medications and supplements. Hair loss can be a side effect of certain drugs, such as those used for cancer, arthritis, depression, heart problems, gout and high blood pressure.
- Radiation therapy to the head. The hair may not grow back the same as it was before.
- A very stressful event. Many people experience a general thinning of hair several months after a physical or emotional shock. This type of hair loss is temporary.
-Certain hairstyles and treatments. Excessive hairstyling or hairstyles that pull your hair tight, such as pigtails or cornrows, can cause a type of hair loss called traction alopecia. Hot oil hair treatments and permanents can cause inflammation of hair follicles that leads to hair loss. If scarring occurs, hair loss could be permanent.
How Celluma red & near IR Light Therapy can help?
Red light therapy has proven to help both women and men with various conditions to regrow hair and even thicken the diameter of individual hair strands. These effects may be mediated by increases in certain growth factors, of effects on inflammation, improved mitochondrial functioning in the cells in that area, or on nitric oxide levels and blood circulation to the area, or some combination of all these factors.
Red and near-infrared light therapy has proven to help women and men with alopecia to significantly regrow and thicken hair.
The growth of human scalp hair in females using visible red light laser and LED sources. Raymond J Lanzafame, ND, MBA, Raymond R Blanche, Richard P Chiacchierini, PhD, Eric R Kazmirek, and Jeffrey A Sklar, MD.
CONCLUSION: LLLT of the scalp at 655 nm significantly improved hair counts in women with androgenetic alopecia at a rate similar to that observed in males using the same parameters.
Low-Level Laser (Light) Therapy (LLLT) for Treatment of Hair Loss. Pinar Avci, Gaurav K. Gupta, MD, Jason Clark, MD, Norbert Wikonkal, MD, and Michael R. Hamblin
CONCLUSION: LLLT for hair growth in both men and women appears to be both safe and effective. The optimum wavelength, coherence and dosimetric parameters remain to be determined.
Celluma red & near IR light therapy brings best results when combining it with
acupuncture, however it can be done on its own.
What is alopecia areata? Alopecia is a general term for hair loss. Alopecia areata is a common cause of non-scarring hair loss that can occur at any age. It usually causes small, coin-sized, round patches of baldness on the scalp, although hair elsewhere such as the beard, eyebrows, eyelashes, body and limbs can be affected.
Hair loss is typically related to one or more of the following factors:
- Family history (heredity).
- Autoimmune diseases.
- Hormonal changes and medical conditions. A variety of conditions can cause permanent or temporary hair loss, including hormonal changes due to pregnancy, childbirth, menopause and thyroid problems.
- Medications and supplements. Hair loss can be a side effect of certain drugs, such as those used for cancer, arthritis, depression, heart problems, gout and high blood pressure.
- Radiation therapy to the head. The hair may not grow back the same as it was before.
- A very stressful event. Many people experience a general thinning of hair several months after a physical or emotional shock. This type of hair loss is temporary.
-Certain hairstyles and treatments. Excessive hairstyling or hairstyles that pull your hair tight, such as pigtails or cornrows, can cause a type of hair loss called traction alopecia. Hot oil hair treatments and permanents can cause inflammation of hair follicles that leads to hair loss. If scarring occurs, hair loss could be permanent.
How Celluma red & near IR Light Therapy can help?
Red light therapy has proven to help both women and men with various conditions to regrow hair and even thicken the diameter of individual hair strands. These effects may be mediated by increases in certain growth factors, of effects on inflammation, improved mitochondrial functioning in the cells in that area, or on nitric oxide levels and blood circulation to the area, or some combination of all these factors.
Red and near-infrared light therapy has proven to help women and men with alopecia to significantly regrow and thicken hair.
The growth of human scalp hair in females using visible red light laser and LED sources. Raymond J Lanzafame, ND, MBA, Raymond R Blanche, Richard P Chiacchierini, PhD, Eric R Kazmirek, and Jeffrey A Sklar, MD.
CONCLUSION: LLLT of the scalp at 655 nm significantly improved hair counts in women with androgenetic alopecia at a rate similar to that observed in males using the same parameters.
Low-Level Laser (Light) Therapy (LLLT) for Treatment of Hair Loss. Pinar Avci, Gaurav K. Gupta, MD, Jason Clark, MD, Norbert Wikonkal, MD, and Michael R. Hamblin
CONCLUSION: LLLT for hair growth in both men and women appears to be both safe and effective. The optimum wavelength, coherence and dosimetric parameters remain to be determined.
Celluma red & near IR light therapy brings best results when combining it with
acupuncture, however it can be done on its own.
