Chapter 5 - Hair and Scalp Disorders
About this chapter...
In this chapter we look at common disorders of the hair and scalp. Some of these, like dandruff and head lice, can be treated satisfactorily. For others, like the common baldness that affects up to 50% of men by the age of 50, there seems to be no effective treatment even though any number of remedies - both the seemingly logical and the completely illogical - have been proposed.
We need to understand the true causes of these problems. And it is just as important to know that some of the suggested treatments have no scientific basis at all.
