Premature Hair Greying

Premature greying of the hair is when it happens before 20 years of age or in between the age of 20-30. This is one of the major concern of many people. The hair follicles consist of pigment called “eumelanin & pheomelanin”. This pigment give the hair its colour. But over the time, these hair follicles can lose their pigment, resulting in white hair due to various reasons which we will be listing in the next section. This can severely lower one’s self confidence and can be embarrassing at times.

Causes

• Genetics
• Stress
• Thyroid problems
• Smoking
• B12 deficiency
• Autoimmune diseases
• Poor nutrition with protein deficiency
• Environmental factors like excessive sun exposure
  causing Oxidative stress.

Treatment

• Recognize and treat the cause
• Correct the nutritional deficiencies if any.
• A well balanced diet is of utmost importance  aprecaution for the ones with early graying of hair
• Hair solutions which restricts and reverses the greying of hair to some extent
• The other precautions include avoiding direct exposure to the sunlight, use of antioxidants, nicotinamide and
  elemental zinc and copper will help to prevent the high risk group against premature hair