Found of black dress, but wary of dandruff?? Soon your shoulders will show white flecks, whispering about the dandruff in your hair, ok change the dress to off white nobody would know right??
But as always instead of finding a solution to the actual problem you have found a shortcut to bypass the problem and allowed it pop up till it becomes a serious health issue and reach a stage where you cannot ignore or hide it anymore, and seek doctor for treatment. Had you nipped the evil in the bud it may not have reached to the stage of severity.
Dandruff is a combination of inflammation, flaking skin, lumps and crusts. It may manifest at scalp, face, eyebrows, chest or any other part of the body depending upon the ignorance you show to the cause.
Causes:
Chemicals
Sulphate shampoos
Hair dyes
Acidic food
Refined oil
Eating lots of sugary substance
Improper hygiene
Fungal infestation
Trans fats
Inflamed body
Excess steroid usage
Deficiency of EFA
Zinc and vit. C deficiency.
Management
Check your shampoo if it contains SLES (Sulphates), SLS it may be giving allergy to the skin. Change your shampoo for more natural cleaning alternatives.
Use of extra virgin olive oil, virgin coconut oil before shampooing is a good remedy.
Always use coconut-based hair conditioner after shampoo it helps in reducing the dandruff.
Apple cider vinegar is anti-fungal and anti-dandruff helps in reducing the dandruff.
Improve your immunity. Immunity helps in warding off disease causing bacteria and fungus from the skin if you are regularly taking medications like antacids, antibiotics, steroids and a regular patient of seasonal fevers then your body is highly immunocompromised you should seriously consider rebooting your immune system.
Control your stress it increases cortisol level in the blood, which is a stress hormone and inflames our body to the damaging extent.
Reduce sugar and refined starches in your diet, this includes fruits also. The sugar is staple diet for fungus. More sugar is there in your food more prone you are to fungal infestations. Fungus can’t live without sugar. So much is the craving for sugar is sometimes that even if you stop taking sugar even for 1 day you feel fatigue, tiredness, lethargic and creepy in a single day.
Leave addictions, regular alcohol intake and smoking are the factors involved in triggering the dandruff.
Exercise at least 30 to 35 minutes daily to help the body removing lots of toxins from the body.
The herbs that we use in our kitchen like Garlic, Ginger, Onions, Turmeric have anti-fungal properties. If it’s not a part of your daily diet then start taking it on daily basis.
If despite taking all these precautions you are still suffering then better talk to the experts who would analyse your body, find the root cause and would give an expert opinion about your problem.
