Circular, nest hair loss. Manifests itself with a sudden hair loss, which is localized in separate areas of the scalp, face or body.
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The focal (nest) alopecia (baldness)
It is characterized by the appearance of rounded outlines, prone to peripheral growth and merging up to full loss of all hair. Among the many factors causing this disease, distinguish congenital predisposition, various diseases and emotional stress. Hair at focal alopecia seems to live their own life, leaving his head and returning as they please. Regenerating hair is usually thin and unpigmned, and only then they acquire normal color and structure.
Focal alopecia can suspect if:
- Against the background of full health, the patient begins to lose hair
- Facts appear on the head, usually in the form of clearly defined circles (including merging with each other).
- For a short period of time there is a massive hair loss, sometimes up to full baldness.
- Hair loss sometimes occurs on other parts of the body.
- The patient says it was already before, but it went by itself.
Signs of focal baldness
The first signs of the disease are manifested mainly at the age of 15-25 or in children. In 10-25% of cases, illness has a family origin. The most interesting thing is that a person does not feel anything. Foci of baldness gradually increase, sometimes merged between them. Hair in these places thin, twisted, sometimes resemble a question mark. Such hair without much effort is sharpened with the bulb. The surface of the skin in the areas where the hair fell out, noticeably pale the one where the hair remained.
Usually focal baldness begins with a nape. Hair can fall out almost completely, leaving a small island. Often with focal alopecia deform nails.
Causes of focal baldness
Currently it is believed that there are a number of genes, which, if any, do a person more susceptible to focal alopecia. The starting mechanism seems to be external factors, but the degree of lesion, the nature of the flow and treatment resistance is determined by the presence and interaction of several genes.
A starting signal for the development of focal alopecia are:
- Psychic stress. This hypothesis is confirmed only statistically. Most likely, stress can be viewed as an external factor, launching focal alopecia among people predisposed to it.
- Physical injury. There are many examples of how physical injury launches the development of focal alopecia. It is assumed that any event that stimulates the immune system, be it a blow to the head or infection, may be a potential cause of the disease.
- infection. There are cases of hair loss after transferring infectious diseases, including skin.
- Genetic predisposition.
Treatment of focal baldness
Unfortunately, universal means and methods for the treatment of focal alopecia do not exist. Hair is capable of recovery even after many years of illness. In some cases, hair is restored only with constant treatment. Sometimes possible very fast hair restoration.
Important:
- treat the entire surface of the head, and not only the area of defeat.
- do not expect any positive changes earlier than three months after the start of treatment.
- Hair growth promotes the preventive reception of vitamins, in severe cases of vitamins injection in.
- An important role in the effectiveness of treatment is played by the psychological factor.
- Continuous treatment increases the likelihood of constant hair growth, although individual foci can appear, then disappear again.
Some methods of treating focal alopecia, in which hair restoration is possible:
- Non-specific irritants and stimuli causing contact dermatitis - they all provoke an inflammatory response around the hair bulbs, which distracts immune cells from the follicle.
- Reception of steroids, hormonal drugs appointed by the doctor. All of them cause more or less strong side effect, often associated with baldness.
- Direct impact on hair onions - penetrating effects.
In this disease, all methods providing temporary hair restoration are extremely necessary. Since neither the causes of the fallout nor the reasons for the spontaneous hair restoration during focal alopecia are not fully clarified, any factors, including psychogenic, should be taken into account. Suddenly, they can lead to improved state and even cure. Hair transplantation during focal alopecia usually only worsens the situation and does not help (in contrast to androgenic alopecia), since the focal alopecia can be interconnected with the general state of the immune and nervous system and the psyche.
In the treatment of focal baldness, a microscopic examination of the patient's hair is carried out and, depending on its structure, prescribed the necessary drugs. With the help of special devices, the state of the bulbs of your hair is investigated, as well as the skin of the scalp.
With focal alopecia, hair can be recovered even after several years of the disease. However, incurable cases still happen.
With this problem, the greatest impact on the state of hair and the scalp is provided:
- Vitamins A, B1, B6, C, B12, B5, B2
- Microelements of sulfur (S), aluminum (AL), silicon (Si), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), copper (CU), iodine (I)
