| Hair has an extraordinary and inexplicable | | | | Dandruff is characterised by excess shedding of |
| psychological importance. Hair can be used to express | | | | scales from the skin of the scalp. This is very |
| cultural, sexual, and religious individuality. Disorders of | | | | common and is usually caused by the presence of a |
| hair growth that compromise individual expression | | | | small round microbe of the yeast family called |
| may affect self-esteem, social functioning, and quality | | | | Pityrosporum Ovale giving rise to the medical term |
| of life There are many disorder releted with hair | | | | for dandruff pityriasis capitis. Dandruff has also been |
| include alopecia areata, hair loss, male pattern | | | | linked to neurologic disorders such as Parkinson's |
| baldness, head lice ,hirsutism, seborrheic dermatitis | | | | disease and epilepsy. Head lice (Pediculus capitis) is |
| (dandruff)and cradle cap. Alopecia areata is | | | | also type of hair disorder. Head lice are small parasitic |
| characterized by round patches of complete baldness. | | | | insects exquisitely adapted to living mainly on the |
| A specific cause of alopecia areata is unknown. A | | | | scalp and neck hairs of their human host. It has been |
| family history and autoimmune diseases is associated | | | | estimated that up to one in every 10 children in |
| with alopecia areata. | | | | school acquires head lice at some time. |
| The primary symptom of alopecia areata is roundish | | | | All this hair disorders are treated only drugs, |
| patches of hair loss on the head, with smooth, | | | | well-balanced diet and nutrition. Alopecia areata can |
| hairless scalp in the affected areas. Alopecia areata | | | | be treated with corticosteroids. Male-pattern and |
| chances in both sexes and at all ages but is most | | | | female-pattern baldness can sometimes be treated |
| vulgar in children and young adults. Male-pattern | | | | effectively with drugs.Minoxidil (Rogaine) and Tretinoin |
| baldness (androgenic alopecia) is the most prominent | | | | (Retin-A) drugs , for hair regrowth and possibly to |
| type of hair disorder affecting, to varying degrees, | | | | prevent further loss. The most important step in |
| half of all men over 50 years of age. It usually | | | | treating head lice is to treat the person and other |
| follows a typical pattern of receding hairline and hair | | | | family members with medicine to kill the lice. |
| thinning on the crown, and is caused by hormones | | | | Dandruff" recommends shampooing on a daily basis. |
| and genetic predisposition. Dandruff is the most | | | | Dandruf supplements and herbs can be beneficial |
| prominent type of hair disorder and also known as | | | | when controlling dandruff and its symptoms. |
| seborrhoeic dermatitis. | | | | |