Dandruff is due to the excessive shedding of dead skin cells from the scalp. Dandruff can happen at any age but is most common in people between 12-80. Normal cases don’t need nothing more than daily shampooing with a gentle cleanser. Subborn flakes usually respond to medicated shampoos. A yeast-like fungus can cause dandruff, a discovery that may result to better treatment.

Dandruff is an itchy, disturbing and persistent skin disorder of the scalp. Some people, either persistent or because of certain conditions, experience an unusually large amount of flaking, which is also accompanied by redness and irritation. During past ten years dandruff issue in the United States have become more serious. As it is normal that small amount of flaking in fact quite common. Most cases of dandruff are cured with medicated shampoos or common household remedies.

Dandruff is a falling of the skin on the scalp resulting to white flakes on the head, neck, and shoulders. It is a natural condition in which the shedding of dead skin cells happens at an unusually fast rate. As of the oily skin usually related with this condition, these cells deposites together and shed off as dandruff. The scalp skin have many layers.

Dandruff and dark color shirt can relate together, as it looks really akward when someone brushes off the white flakes off your apparel. At the beginning level, dandruff might not seem like a big problem but at later stages it can become troublesome, when skin gets affected. Seborrheic dermatitis is a common skin disorder that can be easily cured.

Dandruff resembles scaling on the scalp without redness. Seborrhea is oiliness of the skin, mainly of the scalp and face not having redness or scaling. Seborrheic dermatitis has both redness and scaling and those patients having seborrhea may later get this.

Causes of Dandruff

Common Causes of Dandruff :

• Constipation.
• Exposure to cold.
• Emotional tension.
• Usage of harsh shampoos.
• Stress, anxiety and tension.
• Cold weather and dry indoor heating.
• Heredity predisposition.
• Allergic hypersensitive.
• Poor health or hygiene.
• Excessive use of hair sprays and gels.

Symptoms of Dandruff

Some common Symptoms of Dandruff :

• Itching.
• Scalp may turn red resulting from scratching.
• Flakes of skin that range from small and white to large, greasy, and yellow.

Treatment of Dandruff

There are many ways of treating dandruff. The best instrument for dandruf is to wash hair regularly with an appropriate shampoo. Some doctors also recommend the use of anti-fungal agents for the treatment of dandruf, but this remedy is quite controversial. Dandruff, is best cured with a specific anti-dandruf shampoo. To lessen flaking, gently shampoo hair using the pads of finger and try not to starch. Some are -

• You can also take a spoon full of lemon juice . Mix it with two spoon full of vinegar and massage the mixture on the scalp. Wash your hair with an egg shampoo.
• Before going to bed oil hair well. Next morning mix 1 tspn  of limejuice with ½ tspn salt. Rub the mixture on the scalp with the peel of a lime turned inside out. Leave for 1 hour before shampooing.
• Use of antiseptic lotion.
• Scalp treatment (ozone treatment).
• Avoid using shampoos with harsh chemicals if you have a bruised scalp. Applying shampoos containing such chemicals on broken skin may cause irritation.
• In a squirt of lime juice mix one egg yolk and few drops of camphor. Apply it to your scalp for about ten minutes.This will help reintroduce missing protein to your scalp. Rinse with warm water.
• Important is washing your hair regularly. If you find washing your hair gives you curly or dry ends, the little fact to handle that is to take some conditioner and add it to the ends of your hair before washing it normally. After shampooing, condtion it. if you like to use conditioner.