Female baldness is different from its male counterpart in a variety of ways. This condition is often more difficult to identify because non-pattern varieties of hair loss are more common among women as compared to men.
Female baldness generally presents itself in individuals over the age of 50, but can appear as early as the teens, and can occur in a variety of patterns, not just on the top and front of the scalp. To complicate the issue, some thinning of the hair in women does not necessarily indicate future baldness as women often experience temporary thinning of the hair around such events as pregnancy or illness.
If you are a woman with thinning hair, please visit a hair restoration specialist in order to have your condition correctly diagnosed. Only then can the appropriate solution be identified.
Female Pattern Baldness
Despite the complexities of female baldness, the most common form of female hair loss is still androgenetic alopecia, or pattern baldness. As with male pattern baldness, women can inherit the tendency for baldness from either their mother or their father, and the actual loss of hair is triggered by the advent of androgens, or male hormones.
It should be noted, however, that female pattern baldness rarely results in actual baldness. Few women will lose all their scalp hair due to androgenetic alopecia. However, if you have suffered from hair loss from an early age, we encourage you to seek treatment as soon as possible as balding over a long period of time (e.g. from your 20s) will result in an extreme level of hair loss.
Ludwig Classification of Female Pattern Baldness
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