With a few bald patches on the back of her head, 9 year old Rio Jiminez knows she stands out. "Everybody started making fun of me like you don't have any hair and you're gonig to lose it all and you're weird," said Rio. Rio has Alopecia Areata. It's a genetic disease that causes patients to lose hair.
It's an auto immune disease that attacks the hair folicles. It doesn't destroy them but disrupts them enough so they stop growing," said Dr. David Norris from the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine.
The Tyra Banks Show covered a story about a high school girl who sufferers from Alopecia Areata. Tyra makes the trip to her high school to help her confront the other students who tease her, and consoles her as the teenager tells the story of her father passing, causing her so much stress that she began to loose her hair.
Baldness can be classified into various types, depending on the cause. Several of the many different types of baldness include the following:
female-pattern baldness although less common, female-pattern baldness differs from that of male-pattern baldness in that the hair generally thins all over the head, but the frontal hairline is maintained. Female-pattern baldness rarely results in total hair loss.
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As explained it the previous section, Male Pattern Baldness (Androgenetic Alopecia) is caused by the Dehydro-Testosterone hormone. It usually progresses in the following pattern: at first, the hair in the temples and in the crown area(the area around the point out of which the hair grows in a swirl-like manner) starts thinning. The frontal hair line then begins to recede, the temples grow bigger and the crown areas noticeably balds. Later on the two bald areas at the front and back meet at the center of the scalp, and eventually there is only a horseshoe shaped piece of hair that surrounds the head. The Norwood-Hamilton Scale illustrates the different stages that characterize the Male Pattern Baldness process:
Causes, incidence, and risk factors:
Hair grows from its follicle at an average rate of a 1/2 inch per month. Each hair grows for 2 to 6 years, then rests, and then falls out. A new hair soon begins growing in its place. At any one time, about 85% of the hair is growing and 15% is resting.
Baldness occurs when hair falls out but new hair does not grow in its place. The cause of the failure to grow new hair in female pattern baldness is not well understood, but it is associated with genetic predisposition, aging, and levels of endocrine hormones (particulary androgens, the male sex hormones).
Pregnancy can be another cause of local, temporary hair loss. One to five months after your baby is born, you may lose more hair from your scalp than usual. The loss of hair happens because during pregnancy more hairs go into a resting phase than when you are not pregnant. The resting phase is part of the normal growth and loss cycle of scalp hair. Six to twelve months after delivery your hair will become thicker again. The hair loss will not be permanent or cause obvious bald patches.
The most common type of hair loss in women is androgenetic alopecia or hereditary baldness. It accounts for approximately two thirds of female visits to dermatologists for hair loss. Androgenetic alopecia is the same type of hereditary hair loss that men suffer from, except that women tend to lose hair in different areas of the scalp. Men usually experience receding of the frontal hair line and baldness on the top of the scalp, whereas women's hair thins over the front and top of the scalp, with the frontal hair line usually remaining intact. Androgenetic alopecia occurs gradually but can fluctuate from periods of accelerated hair loss to periods of little or no hair loss. It often begins as early as puberty but may not be noticeable until the middle years.
Sheila was in a horrible industrial accident that literally ripped all of the hair off of her head, the accident rendered Sheila scarred and permanently bald. Sheila is one of many people who (for many different reasons) cannot ever grow their natural hair again.
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The first and foremost mistake is having unrealistic expectations. This will always lead to frustrations, no matter how good or bad the treatment was. Irrespective of what the marketers of any hair loss product say, do not believe that you can recover all of your lost hair. Most treatments only enable you to slow down the balding process or, in better instances, to keep the existing hair. The best possible achievement you can expect from any treatment is to regrow the hair you have lost in the previous three years. But this is only possible if you start treating your condition at an early stage. This brings us to the second mistake many hair loss sufferers make - denying their hair loss and starting to treat their condition only after they have already developed a bald patch. The later you start treating the baldness, the less chances you have of regrowing lost hair. In order to regrow hair you must have fine miniaturised hair left in your bald areas. This hair is often called peach fuzz. Once your hair follicles have died and there is no hair left, no miracle can rejuvenate them.
For most people, hair loss is mild and occurs later in life. However, when hair loss is premature or severe, it can be a source of distress. Although there is no cure, a number of treatments are available that can effectively slow or reduce hair loss and stimulate partial regrowth. Surgical treatment involving hair transplantation is available from some specialist dermatologists and can be helpful for some men with advanced balding.
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If the Alopecia Areata disorder results in the loss of the eyebrows and the eyelashes medical tattoo also known as cosmetic tattooing, semi permanent make up, permanent makeup or micropigmentation can provides a long term answer to the problem.Realistic looking eyebrows can be constructed by creating the illusion of ultra fine hair strokes through the implantation of pigments into the skin.
Are you experiencing thinning of your eyelashes? This can be a disturbing problem for women since long, lush eyelashes are considered a sign of beauty in American culture. If you're experiencing this problem, what can you do to prevent loss of eyelashes?
Hair loss affect about 70% of women who are approaching menopause. Hair loss usually lasts for the whole menopause transition (until the mid 50's), but some women may experience them for the rest of their life. Menopause is not an illness, but a natural process in a woman's body. The symptoms of menopause are just indicators of changes between the hormones estrogen, testosterone and progesterone. These changes result in a hormonal imbalance in a woman's body and cause the common hair loss in women.
What causes it: Normally, the average head loses 100 hairs a day — but not all at once, so you don't notice them. During pregnancy, your hormones keep those hairs from falling out (which is why your hair looks as lush as a supermodel's, or is so thick you can barely get a brush through it). But all good things must come to an end, and that includes your awesome new 'do. When those hormones drop back to normal, the extra hairs drop, too.
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