Alopecia areata explained
Alopecia Arata affects hair follicles on any part of your body leg hair underarm hair pubic hair eyebrows eyelashes typically start as a small
round to oval completely bald patch that may be unnoticeable.
What is the meaning of Alopecia areata?
The most common hair loss disorder in children alopecia just means hair loss Arata means patchy
so this is a patchy form of hair loss
Will alopecia areata grow back?
you’re dealing with this what you probably want to know If my hair ever going to grow back it can be alopecia areata
Role of the auto-immune system
The good news is while it’s an autoimmune attack of your hair follicles it doesn’t destroy them it doesn’t result in the formation of a
scar, so you can get hair regrowth in the hair, can even go back to completely normal a thing of the past some people will regrow their hair in those bald
patches and never experience another episode of alopecia Arata again
How long does alopecia areata last?
The treatments for alopecia areata with treatment, however, most people will
start to see some signs of hair regrowth within about 6 weeks
if the treatment is effective however of course it’s going
to take more time for the hair to completely regrow
Alopecia areata cure?
Cure alopecia Arata there is no cure for
as it stands now
- There is no cure we have treatments that can control it that can get the hair to regrow in cases
where it’s not spontaneously growing back
There is no cure for the root cause of alopecia,
- Arata is an autoimmune disease it’s an autoimmune process what that means that the immune system
gets confused and thinks a part of your body are foreign starts to attack
Risk factors for alopecia areata
Risk factors are correlated and not necessarily proof of causation
extreme stress.
when you are stressed out your brain releases signals to the the body you know peripherally that impacts your immune system
functions so it’s not uncommon to have alopecia Arata come out after a stressful life event emotional stress physical stress
maybe you were in the hospital and had a fever it’s not uncommon because it’s an autoimmune
attack against the hair follicles patients who have alopecia Arata not uncommon for them to have other
(1) Auto-immune diseases especially
(2) Auto-immune thyroid disease
(3) Auto-immune thyroid disease more likely
Alopecia areata treatments
when patients have Alopecia Arata make sure their thyroid is okay and if they have alopecia around their thyroid Labs may be
screened more routinely the treatment path depends:
Topical steroids
topical steroids need to be applied twice a day to the area they don’t work as well in adults but they can
help in kids then there is something you can put on called lanolin and the way you do this is you apply the lanolin to the bald patches, you leave it
on uh and then you wash it off a short
contact therapy approach causes a lot of irritation a lot and that irritation is
hopefully kind of helping to redirect
Immune system
your immune system to start ignoring the hair follicle so your hair can regrow this is often coupled with
Minoxidil to get the hair in the growing phase of the hair cycle and get better results now when you have extensive
alopecia Arata many patches or you have Al alopecia meaning all of your scalp hair this is a time where contact immunotherapy maybe recommended um and again I pointed out that this might be something that is offered for kids um with extensive alp Chariot so what this involves is you go in and we put something on the skin that
causes a lot of irritation and a reaction pretty good regrowth so the treatment is continued weekly until your hair completely regrows if you don’t respond
to it however after 6 months then we call it quits then I want to talk about Jack Inhibitors is a newer class of medications we have two of them
Methotrexate
Methotrexate is something we use to treat psoriasis um and it also can be used to treat Alp Arata as well as a drug called
cyclosporin
so these are additional options pills that you take by mouth not going to be right for everyone they have
certain side effects but maybe something that’s offered to you they’ve been these are drugs.
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