Hair loss in adults can certainly cause stress and concern in your life. Children are naturally concerned with how they appear to themselves as well as their peers. It is hard growing up these days. Children can be mean spirited to others who appear different. When you are a child, hair loss can be devastating to say the least.
Alopecia Areata affects more than 5 million people in the United States alone. It is a skin disease that causes hair loss on the scalp. It can also cause hair loss in other areas of the body.Alopecia Areata is considered to be an autoimmune disease. Hair follicles are damaged by a persons own immune system because they are mistakenly identified.
Many times, Alopecia Areata is noticed when a small round patch (or patches) of hair is lost. Sometimes the bald patches get bigger and occasionally, people do suffer from total hair loss.
Both males and females can suffer the affects of this disease. Most of the time, hair loss begins in childhood, but it can begin in adulthood as well. Luckily the hair will usually grow back within a year, but often times, because this is a chronic disease, it will likely fall out once again.
Treatment varies depending on the patient?s age as well as their individual hair loss. Sadly, there has been no known cases of treatment to restore full hair when there is 100% scalp and body hair loss.
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