Alopecia
July 5, 2008
Although alopecia can occur anywhere on the body, it is most distressing when it affects the scalp. Hair loss can range from a small bare patch that is easily masked by hairstyling to a more diffuse and obvious pattern. Alopecia is a condition when you got a patchy spots without hair on your scalp or loss of hair on any part of the body. This condition is relatively common, and as many as 1 in 1,000 people may suffer from it at some time. The cause is unknown and occasionally it becomes very widespread and severe. Some of the common causes of alopecia are here:
Causes:
• Alopecia is caused because of genetic factors also; if a person having family history in alopecia may be caused by the disease.
• Alopecia appears to the persons who also have an autoimmune factor causing the patient to develop antibodies to different hair follicle structures.
• Many chemicals such as cytokines play a role of having disease of alopecia.
• Any stress rather mental or emotional can be a cause of hair fall or alopecia.
• If you are having irregular food habits it may give way to hair fall.
• Environmental pollution is a huge cause of having alopecia.
• Sometimes the condition becomes severe or recurrent, and the patient may even lose eyebrows and lashes or all body hair.
• Medications, pregnancy, birth control pills, thyroid malfunctions, anemia, syphilis, and arthritis are some other causes of alopecia.
• Bald patches can occur if you wear tight rollers and certain hairstyles such as pigtails, braids or cornrows. Loss of hair may be occurring in that area which is tightly pulled or between the rows.
• This rare condition occurs when inflammation damages and scars the hair follicle, causing permanent hair loss. Sometimes the patchy hair loss is associated with slight itching or pain.
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