Alopecia is the medical condition, which is characterized by hair loss from the scalp or body. Sometimes the extent of baldness can also appear. Alopecia usually is unwilled and unwished condition, for example androgenic alopecia causes serious discomfort to patients.
Reasons of Hair Loss
It is believed that main reasons of hair loss can be mental obsession to pull out one's own hair. This medical condition is called trichotillomania. In addition to this, the daily hairstyling routines, mechanical forces, such as too tense ponytails or braidings, chemical procedures like chemic hair curling can affect the hair loss. Moreover, alopecia can also be the result of lack of iron in organism.
Symptoms of Hair Loss
The first symptoms of Alopecia include small, soft, bald patches that can be any shape and on any location of the head. The most common areas that can be affected by hair loss are scalp and face. Otherwise, Alopecia can occur on any part of the body, which has hair.
Kinds of Hair Loss
Alopecia is divided into some different kinds depending on the certain location and symptoms of it. If hair loss occurs in only place, this form is called alopecia areata. The hair loss, which occurs all over the body, is called alopecia universalis. For example, chemotherapy can be the reason of alopecia universalis.
Cure for Hair Loss
More than 50 percent of patients usually recover without any treatment. Otherwise, doctors recommend checking when there are some symptoms of alopecia with a purpose to avoid the spontaneous regression of this medical condition.
The cure for hair loss can be with medications, such as clobetasol or fluocinonide, steroid injections, or creams. By the way, sometimes alternative treatment therapies can be also applied. Cure for hair loss with steroid injections are commonly applied in small bolding areas on the head or especially where eyebrow hair has been lost. The oral adrenal cortical steroids are the medications, which decrease the hair loss. However, they have adverse side effects.
