NHS offers balding women hair extensions

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NHS offers balding women hair extensions
By Elizabeth Day
(Filed: 07/08/2005)

The stress of modern life has led to an alarming increase in the number of younger women going bald.

Thirty thousand women a year in Europe - an estimated 2,250 of them in Britain, double the number of a decade ago - suffer from alopecia, or premature baldness, and those suffering significant hair loss runs into millions.

Although the exact cause of alopecia is unknown, the growing number of cases is thought to be due to increased levels of stress among women attempting to juggle family and professional responsibilities.

Elizabeth Steel, the director of Hairline International, a society for alopecia sufferers, said that hectic lifestyles and crash dieting were among the likely causes. "There is no single cause, but one reason some women develop the condition is through an iron deficiency," she said. "This can be caused by crash or yo-yo dieting, and a lifestyle that is becoming common in 30-something women: working long hours, not eating properly and leading stressful lives, which runs the body down."

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IF THEY'RE balding the extensions won't work because they have to be glued into place.
Sheeeeeeeeeesh!

[Sadie5]

1. Could it be

all of those fancy pansy drugs that have suddenly appeared on the market. Those that the drugs companies are getting rich from? Read the package inserts, some of those might be responsible for the alopecia these women are suffering from. They probably offered the hair extensions because they knew that the women didn't have enough hair to hold them in. Besides that, those extensions need adjusting every 6 weeks or so. Who will stand the cost of that? Their problem might only get worse with the extensions.