The Importance Of Alopecia

Alopecia is the emotional role that it plays in people’s minds is just a detrimental if it was a physical condition because hair is extremely important part of people’s self-image. Alopecia is absence of hair where it is supposed to grow; baldness. “Alopecia is the medical term for baldness.” It is an autoimmune disease, where the immune system attacks their own body and causes their hair to fall out. It could fall out in chunks up to a size of a quarter, possibly bigger. It could also be in just in a few spots but it could be all over. It could be on the head or all over the body, it just depends on how bad the condition is and who the person is. “Alopecia is not like some genetic diseases in which a child has a 50–50 chance of developing the disease if one parent has it.” If you have family members that have diabetes, lupus, or thyroid disease, you are more likely to get alopecia.

You can possibly treat alopecia by taking anti-inflammatory drugs that are prescribed for autoimmune diseases. Corticosteroids can be injected into the scalp area or you can take it orally, or applied as an ointment. Other than that I don’t think than anyone or even a dermatologist could help grow your hair back because hair usually grows back on its own. People’s hair usually grows back unless it’s a serious problem. 10% of people’s hair dot
“Because hair is an important part of appearance, hair loss can result in feeling unattractive.” There is a possibility that there hair can grow back but there is always that 10% that their hair will just not grow back. Alopecia is hereditary for some family, it’s in my family. My mom, grandma and some other people in my family have hair loss but it’s all in different ways. Like my mom has it because of her disease and my grandma has it because she old. There are different ways alopecia can