Why is the middle of my scalp sore natural hair
What Causes Sore Scalp? | How to Prevent Breakage at the Crown | CCCA
hey YouTube it's now I'm nappy and I'm
back for another tip Tuesday so this
week I want to talk about common causes
for hair loss and how to prevent it
especially for women of African descent
so my first time experiencing
crime-related hair loss from me started
about seven to eight years ago I talked
about it here in my hair loss story
which I tied up here for you guys and it
was due to my anemia my low iron levels
and so I share that story with you guys
and that's kind of what spurred me or
made me want to do this video for you
guys today to kind of talk about some of
the reasons and causes for crown hair
loss as well as some of the ways
prevented and possibly reversed it
before it is too late reports completely
gone alright so the most common form of
hair loss for African American women is
called central centrifugal to contribute
alopecia CCA I'm not gonna repeat it
again just CCA from here on out alright
so this is actually the most common form
of scarring related hair loss or
scarring related alopecia for
african-american women and I said the
crown area because it starts as like a
small circle and it works it's played
out okay so I'm gonna give you a little
brief history and then we're gonna go
right into some of the most common
causes of this all right so initially in
the 1960s before it became the CCA
it was initially called hot comb
alopecia because the only common cost
causes that they were aware of the time
with black women who are using the hot
comb and petrolatum
or petroleum to press their hair and
they were saying that the petroleum was
heating up and destroying the hair
follicle damage is heating up the scalp
and causing damage to the follicles
underneath and eventually
causing hair loss so wasn't until 1992
that they begin looking at other causes
a for african-american hair loss in
particular a study was done because
there was african-american women who
were showing up never used a hot comb
before with the same type of crime
related hair loss and they noticed that
it was hair loss that started again at
the root so they go to said a
degeneration at the root or the follicle
so that damage was gone and there was
once it's gone
there was no way to reverse it and they
believe during that time that this was
caused from too tight hairstyles it was
caused from chemicals or some type of
form of trauma to the scalp and to the
hair follicle tone now generally before
you start to become completely bald in
an area you may notice some other
symptoms other than pear shading and
that may be a sore or tender self right
in that crown area or maybe excess
itching or scratching scratching or a
tingling sensation or burning sensation
that you may not quite understand why
it's there now if you're experiencing a
neo is going to recommend of course the
purpose of this video that you should go
to your doctor or dermatologist if you
can find a black dermatologist I
recommend that to help you diagnose and
treat this issue before you get to a
point of where you can't reverse it okay
so I'm going to talk about so in this
video I want to talk about five of the
most common causes of CC 8 now the first
cause is allergies that leads to
dermatitis so a lot of us in the
springtime or in the fall time we know
our allergies start to act up or
sneezing or coughing we get that hay
fever or some of us are allergic to
other things other fruits other metals
yourself
and some of those things may be found in
our hair products all right and we're
using all-natural ingredients or
chemical synthetic ingredients they can
irritate the scalp so as you're
constantly putting them on your scalp
and using it you're constantly
scratching so your stop is becoming
inflamed and as you continue that
continue to scratch and continue to
damage the hair follicles okay so that
will then lead to thinning and then
possibly CC a hair loss over time so I'm
gonna recommend that if you notice a
trend like every time you get out of the
shower after wash day you notice you
scalp is really itchy still and you're
like I just wash my hair my hair should
not be this itchy or are you pulling one
product and you notice yourself it's
still again very itchy I think the best
thing to do is to try each product one
at a time to find out what is causing
your hair to itch or what is it maybe or
possibly allergic to and then remove
that from your regiment completely like
a lot of people I know say oh coconut
oil it makes my hair very itchy or makes
my hair very dry or whatever the case
stop using it use another oil you may
notice that you can't use nut oil so you
might need to use another type of oil
okay so just trying out different hair
products that your doesn't cause
itchiness or soreness in your scalp so
next up is genetic and now doctors don't
technically know the cause of CCA it
could possibly from too much DHT which
causes hair loss or they say if your
your mother hasn't your grandmother has
the more than likely you're gonna have
it it's just genetics but and this
allowed like to say is
is it genetics or is it possibly the
same hair practices that are passed down
from generation to generation that cause
the same type of balding or hair loss
and that leads me to my second point and
that is to type hairstyle now as black
women we love to do corals or braids or
possibly that high bun and I'm queen of
doing a good - but a lot of that causes
a lot of tension in the crown area and
that can really cause the follicles to
become inflamed and eventually die all
right so the best thing I can recommend
for you guys is to switch up your
hairstyles alright and don't always use
braids with me the extension at it don't
always use corals that are too tight if
you like to wear a bun switch up your
bun so would a high bun a low bun I'm
look for other low tension hairstyles
like this style that I have today I
posted it in my video yesterday if you
or two days ago your Tyrians this is a
very low tension hairstyle everything's
low and so there's no tension on my
crown areas so switching it up helps to
really produce a prevent fat crown
breakage additionally we want to look at
our washing practices we became so
programmed to section our hair into a
board right and then apply products and
wash your hair like that but that is a
lot of tension on that crown area as we
braid and twist and moisturize our pool
and full pull away causing causing
breakage and intention to that area
causing it to become inflamed which can
cause degeneration to the hair roots so
instead of wash that using four sections
I recommend adding maybe a fifth or
sixth section and instead of doing that
typical for you do the four and then
part one in the middle
self-defense section now a lot of people
may notice that their parent section is
actually a different porosity for the
rest of the hair so that will allow you
it allow you to get that section
personal treatment maybe it needs more
protein maybe you need to use a heavier
butter and sweat off or maybe you need
to use a heavier butter on that area to
help fill and lock in that moisture to
prevent that damage and that breakage
while washing its down on your hair so
next up I'm going to talk about is
hormones and vitamin deficiencies and
I'm going to put them together because
they both require you to go to a doctor
to find out what's going on so
hyperthyroidism is a very common
hormonal issue that relieves that that
leads to hair loss some of the symptoms
are extreme sweating rapid heartbeat
irritation you'll notice your hair is
thinning
you'll notice here it's spinning and
brittle and you definitely want to go to
the doctor to help to get diagnosed to
help find out what's going on and then
of course vitamin deficiency which is
very very important to me because it
happened to me all right so I was during
a period of time where I had a diet that
was low in protein and low in iron and I
became very anemic and I didn't know
what was going on I just kept thinking
I'll be fine and it wasn't until I went
to the doctor's and I was diagnosed that
I learned that my crown related hair
loss was due to my anemia so it can be
due to a number of other causes or by
other vitamin deficiencies such as
vitamin D vitamin D so you want to make
sure when you go to your doctor you get
that blood test whether that early book
biannually want whatever it is get
tested to find out so if you're
experiencing hair loss go to the doctor
okay now finally and this is gonna be it
for you guys is Brad
and UV damage we know that the town over
here is the highest point of our body
and it actually received the lowest
blood flow and we know blood flow is
important it delivers nutrients to that
area which helps to stimulate hair
growth so definitely massaging gently
massaging that area what helps reduce
blood flow and is also the reason why
inversion works now I'm not sitting here
telling you guys to do inversion because
I know certain people with medical
issues can not do inversions so if you
can't do inversion I recommend you
workout because that will also increase
blood flow and then do a stout personage
with oils now of course you know I'm
gonna throw that little caveat in there
because I love my oils and herbal oils
okay herb oils because some of the herbs
that I recommend to you guys help to
reduce inflammation in this town okay
such services ashwagandha Amla fenugreek
rosemary - Marie means all is contained
and possess anti-inflammatory properties
so when you use soap toes or you CIL's
and an herb or the herbal mass or over
oil and you decide your scalp with them
very gently okay because a lot of people
look if you massage too too rough you
can also make your exposures got very
sore as well that can also help to
reduce some of that information and help
your hair
we begin to fill itself again and
finally I'm going to go ahead and talk
about that UV damage because you guys
the Sun is very powerful and that is the
highest for the crowd is the highest
point of our head and receives the most
UV rays and the most damaging to our
hair follicles so we want to make sure
we are protecting our scalp whenever
it's really sunny out either with a hat
or particular perhaps with using some
oils and I'm gonna recommend what I know
off the top of my head is red raspberry
oil which has a very high SPF in it to
use that too or yourself if you know
you're going to be outside and then
protecting it
hats are something especially if you're
gonna be in the Sun for a long period of
time alright so that's it that all the
tips that I have for today if you are
experiencing hair loss and I'm gonna say
go to your doctor and and find out
what's going on and try to get that I
try to catch it early enough you guys
before it's completely gone
it's there there's no way to really
reverse it right now okay so don't
forget to check out my blog you guys
I'll have a lot more details a lot more
information on the blog for you guys
about this if you have any questions
please leave them down below if you know
anyone suffering from hair loss I
recommend you show me this video it's
time to go to the doctor that's it for
this week see you next time
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