Appeared in The Times of India, Delhi Times (Dated: 22-05-2010) Saturday

Healthy lustrous hair is something we all desire, but there are times when hair starts losing its sheen and worse. The earliest signs of an impending problem could manifest by way of recurring dandruff, the hair losing luster, thinning hair and patches of baldness, etc. Pallavi Sharma, learnt it the hard way. Says she, “last year I saw a very noticeable bald spot at the front of my head, with each passing week my scalp only became more visible. A colleague at work told me I could be suffering from alopecia or patchy baldness.