Tuesday, April 2, 2013

What Causes Dandruff

Dandruff or scurf is like pieces of flakes on your scalp. Dandruff is your old scalp skin. Your skin is regenerate regularly. The new skin pushes the old skin out of the surface. Someone with dandruff problems mean their skin regenerate more often. More old skin made, that cause dandruff. Dandruff can also cause by other things like weather or allergic reaction.

What Causes Dandruff

If you have an oily scalp, you have to be worry about dandruff. Oil on your scalp will bundle your skin cell into white thick layer. That skin cell then what you see as dandruff. This problem will get worse at dry weather. Dry weather can trigger itchy feeling at your scalp. It is because your skin gets dried and turn into skin flakes. Scratch it will make it worse. You will peel off more skin flakes and make your dandruff worse. Try to not scratch your scalp at dry season. If you have dandruff problem, don’t blow your hair too often. Heat will make your dandruff worse.

Some hair treatment product can cause allergic. If your scalp can not resist some substances on hair product, your scalp will get dry, broken, and redness. This reaction cause itchy feeling that make you want to scratch it. Then without you noticed, you will have dandruff problem. Dandruff can be ccauses if you not clearly wash your hair and scalp after using the hair treatment product. Make sure you wash your hair with water clearly to remove any shampoo or conditioner you used. Remains product on your scalp will get dry and turn into some white flakes on your scalp. This allergic condition must be aware by you who have sensitive scalp.

There is dandruff that causes by some fungi or health problem condition. We have Malassezia fungi in our scalp. It works for to process oil in our scalp. There is the time where the amount of fungi in our scalp is increased. This condition can cause too much oil on your skin. Then the result is dandruff. The cause of increasing fungi on your scalp is remains unknown. Health problem condition can also cause dandruff on your scalp. Psoriasis is an autoimmune condition. It cause the victim have a scales skin. These scales will get dry on its regenerate. Sometimes this condition shown in the scalp that cause the skin peeled of and become dandruff. Other skin problem or similar medical condition can also cause dandruff.

Stress apparently can cause dandruff. Stress can ruin all of your body system. When your body system is not balanced, the skin will lose his elasticity and regeneration ability. This can cause dandruff problem. Try to avoid stress by having a balanced lifestyle and mind.

All of that condition can make your dandruff worse if you are not regularly washing your hair. Your scalp will become dirty. It will become sticky and your scalp covered by sweat, oil, and other dirt. The sweat and oil will combine and dry into flakes that become dandruff. Try to wash your hair regularly with shampoo. Choose the shampoo that fits to your hair condition. Don’t wear hats or other head covered that too tight. It will make your head sweating a lot. Too much sweat means too much dandruff.