What causes white hair

As people's living standards continue to improve, their physical condition has not improved much. Problems that used to only occur among the elderly, such as obesity, high blood pressure, stroke, and gray hair, are now occurring at a younger age. Especially white hair, more and more young people have a head full of white hair at a young age, which seriously affects our appearance and makes us lose confidence in life.

In fact, there are many reasons for gray hair, including pathological reasons, mental reasons, etc. If patients with gray hair want to treat it, we need to check and understand what causes it. Below, let us learn about the causes of gray hair.

Gray hair refers to the complete or partial whitening of hair, which can be divided into congenital and acquired types. Congenital hoary hair often has a family history, with localized hoary hair being more common and seeing more at the front headline. There are two types of acquired gray hair: senile gray hair and juvenile gray hair. Some are old and frail but have few grey hairs. Juvenile graying of hair occurs in children and adolescents, and often has a family history. Apart from the increase in gray hair, it does not affect physical health. Sometimes the sudden occurrence of gray hair during adolescence is related to nutritional disorders. Generally speaking, there are several acquired reasons: nutritional deficiency, long-term mental stress and lack of sunlight. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that gray hair is caused by kidney yin deficiency. Weak kidney function leads to a slowdown in the body's metabolic function. Therefore, the treatment of gray hair should first replenish kidney yin and treat it fundamentally. In addition, some skin diseases such as vitiligo can also cause gray hair. Normal people usually start to have gray hair at the age of 35. If it appears earlier, it is best to seek treatment. White hair caused by congenital heredity is difficult to treat, but white hair caused by acquired reasons can be improved through treatment.

The above are the reasons for hair turning white. From the above we can see that there are actually many reasons for hair turning white. Excluding congenital factors, acquired factors can generally be treated. Therefore, if we have gray hair, we can go to the hospital to check what causes it, so that we can get good therapeutic effects.