Musician Wambui Ngugi has disclosed personal details about a rare condition she has been fighting. According to the singer, she has been struggling with androgenetic alopecia, a common form of hair loss affecting both men and women. In men, this condition is also known as male-pattern baldness. Hair is lost in a well-defined pattern, beginning above both temples.
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Wambui, who is a member of the Elani Afro-pop group prided herself for having gorgeous natural hair which took nearly 10 years to grow, admitted that the sudden realisation that she was losing her hair came as a shocker.
“Three years ago, I started to experience hair loss. I didn’t know it was hair loss. I noticed a crazy loss of density around a particular area of my scalp. People call it the crown, but is commonly referred to as the vertex by trichologists,” she said.
Just like any other human being in the age of the internet, Wambui did a quick search on the condition and the possible remedies. After trying several fixes and solutions offered on YouTube and different blogs, she met a professional who diagnosed her with androgenetic hair loss, which shocked the musician and affected her confidence.
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“For me, I couldn't say it's just hair because a full head of hair affects my confidence,” she explained.
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The hair expert explained that she was genetically dispositioned to experience hair loss at some point in her life and that all she could do was manage and reverse it. Luckily, she sought professional help early enough to mitigate the condition. In a YouTube video, she further explained that she was offered three solutions to manage the hair. The first one is temporary and involves regular medication while a semi-permanent solution involves injecting growth factors into the affected area. The last solution involves removing a strip of scalp from the back of the head and using it to fill the bald patch. Wambui chose to have the growth factors injected into her scalp.
