Alopecia Areata: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment & Regrowth
网页Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that attacks your body’s hair follicles, causing patchy hair loss. Medications and therapies can help your hair regrow, though severe cases may not respond to treatment.
Alopecia Areata & Hair Loss: Causes, Treatments, and Tips to Cope - WebMD
网页2024年7月1日 — Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that triggers hair loss ranging from small patches to complete baldness of the scalp or entire body. The condition can also affect your nails, causing...
Alopecia Areata: Hair Loss Causes, Treatment, and More - Healthline
网页2023年10月19日 — Alopecia areata is a common hair loss condition that develops when your immune system attacks your hair follicles. It affects nearly 7 million people in the United...
Alopecia Areata: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment - DermNet
网页Alopecia areata is an autoimmune condition affecting hair follicles causing hair loss. It typically presents with discrete bald patches on the scalp but can cause hair loss from all hair-bearing areas on the body.
Alopecia Areata - Hair loss Causes & Living With It | NIAMS
网页Alopecia areata is a disease that happens when the immune system attacks hair follicles and causes hair loss. Hair follicles are the structures in skin that form hair. While hair can be lost from any part of the body, alopecia areata …
Hair loss types: Alopecia areata overview - American Academy of Dermatology
网页Alopecia areata is a disease that causes hair loss. Most people lose hair on their scalp or beard area, but hair loss can occur anywhere on your body. A board-certified dermatologist can tell you if you have this type of hair …
Hair loss - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
网页2024年1月19日 — Medical conditions include alopecia areata (al-o-PEE-she-uh ar-e-A-tuh), which is immune system related and causes patchy hair loss, scalp infections such as ringworm, and a hair-pulling disorder called trichotillomania (trik-o-til-o-MAY-nee-uh).
How is alopecia areata treated? - Mayo Clinic Press
网页2024年3月14日 — Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss and can be treated with an array of therapies. The disease, though often responsive to treatment, is unpredictable. What can you do about it, and how can you learn to live with it? Here is some guidance. Is there a cure for alopecia areata?
Hair loss types: Alopecia areata diagnosis and treatment
网页Alopecia areata can lead to widespread hair loss, complete loss of hair on the scalp (alopecia totalis), or loss of all hair on the body (alopecia universalis). Few people with extensive hair loss regrow their hair without help. A treatment plan for extensive hair loss may include:
What is alopecia areata and how is it managed? - Harvard Health
网页2022年4月28日 — Alopecia areata (AA) occurs when the body's immune system attacks hair follicles, resulting in hair loss. AA can affect the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, or anywhere hair grows on the body. What causes alopecia areata? The immune system protects the body against foreign invaders like bacteria or allergens.