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▲ Kim Jin-oh, director of the New Hair Transplant Center Hospital, is checking the stage of the patient’s hair loss progression. Provided by New Hair Hair Transplant Center

It’s not just the health in your clothes that you need to care about in winter. In winter, when the temperature is below zero, cold air may take away body temperature, but also attack hair. According to the National Health Insurance Service, as a result of analyzing the total number of hair loss treatments per month for the last five years, the number of treatments that were less than 10,000 from January to June showed an increase as it entered the fall from July to 10,000. The maximum was 2453. In particular, among various types of hair loss, the number of patients with android type alopecia, commonly referred to as baldness, was found to be concentrated in the fall and winter months.
The reason that the number of hair loss patients increases in winter is due to dryness. Seasonal factors are not a direct cause of hair loss, but in cold and dry winters, the moisture content of the scalp decreases, which weakens the strength of the hair. In addition, an increase in male hormones due to insufficient sunlight can intensify the symptoms of hair loss, experts explained. In addition, excessive drinking can also affect hair loss. If you drink too much at the end of the year when there are many drinking parties, a lot of stress hormones are secreted, and the secretion of sebum becomes active, which adversely affects hair health.
In order to solve winter hair loss, it is best to get an accurate diagnosis from a specialist and receive treatment that fits your symptoms. This is because various symptoms such as male-type hair loss, female-type hair loss, and circular hair loss appear depending on the cause of hair loss, and effective treatments are also different.
However, very few cases accurately grasp their own hair loss symptoms. According to a survey conducted by Gallup Korea, half of those who complain of hair loss, 52%, feel that their hair loss symptoms are serious, but 11% visit the hospital as a measure to relieve symptoms. On the other hand, 30% of the respondents answered’purchase of hair care products such as shampoo and soap’, followed by’taking folk remedies and health supplements’ (15%) and’purchasing hair loss treatments from pharmacies’ (14%). Appeared in order. However, many of the hair care products on the market are not used to treat hair loss, but are merely auxiliary means to help hair health. Experts point out that most hair loss patients misunderstand that using hair care products can cause new hair growth or stop hair loss symptoms.

Kim Jin-oh, director of the New Hair Transplant Center Hospital, said, “A lot of people think of hair loss prevention shampoo or tonic as a treatment and continue to use it and only visit the hospital after symptoms get worse. Rather, the symptoms of hair loss may worsen or the timing of proper hair loss treatment may be missed, so caution is needed.”

Male pattern hair loss, the most representative hair loss symptom, can be overcome with drug treatment. Male hair loss occurs when the male hormone testosterone is converted into a substance called dihydrotestosterone (DHT), the main culprit of hair loss, by a specific enzyme. Here, the drug prevents the production of DHT. In the early stages of hair loss, you can get the desired treatment results with just the medicines you eat and apply. Hair loss treatments currently on the market include finasteride-based medicines and minoxidil-based medicines. There are two treatments for hair loss that have been proven to have hair growth effect and safety by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Korean Food and Drug Administration. According to the clinical results conducted for two years, the edible drug of finasteride was effective not only for hair loss on the head but also for hair loss on the frontal hair.
If a lot of hair loss has already progressed, the hair on the back of the head is transferred to the hair loss site, and the process proceeds to a hair transplant surgery step. Hair transplant surgery has the advantage of being semi-permanent because it has a visible therapeutic effect for patients with severe hair loss symptoms and the hair does not fall out again. However, since reoperation is not easy, it is necessary to decide whether or not to perform surgery through meticulous consultation with the medical staff.
If your hair loss symptoms haven’t progressed yet, be prepared in advance. Winter is the season when sweat and sebum secretion is relatively low, so it is easy to be neglected in scalp management, but the first step in preventing hair loss is to keep the scalp and hair clean. Shampoo should be done once a day, in the evening rather than in the morning, unless you have oily scalp. Synthetic surfactants contained in shampoos can cause hair loss if exposed to the human body for a long period of time, so you should rinse your hair thoroughly so that no shampoo residue remains after washing your hair. In addition, it is good to dry the scalp thoroughly with a cool wind as possible for wet hair. In addition, in order to prevent the hair from being damaged by static electricity, which is the enemy of hair loss, it is also possible to use a hair lotion or essence when cleaning your hair. Excessive drinking and smoking during the year-end and New Year period also interfere with the supply of nutrients for hair growth to the scalp, which is bad for hair health.