Alopecia areata
barbae
Alopecia areata
barbae
Having to deal
with hair loss is quite frustrating. Hair loss might
occur gradually such that you end up having thinning hair
while there are times when an individual suffers from a
medical condition that leads to complete hair loss in
patches.
This condition
is usually referred to as alopecia areata. This type of
hair loss may decide to affect the face and when it
affects the beard, it is referred to as alopecia areata
barbaeand luckily
for women it only appears in men since they only have
beards.
Cause of alopecia
areata
The disease is
usually caused by a disfunctioning of the body’s immune
system. What usually happens is that due to the
autoimmunity, various parts of the body are mistakenly
attacked by the immune system in the body and in this
case the hair follicles are attacked which results to the
disruption of normal hair growth thus resulting to a
variation of thealopecia areata disease that affects
the beard otherwise called alopecia areata barbae. It
would be quite frustrating to have both hair losses on
the head and on the face.
Frustration men have with
alopecia areata
barbae
Many
men take pride in beard hair and it is normal for
one to start being bald on the head because it is
common but having bald spots on the beard due to
a disease called alopecia areata
barbaeis
another issue on its
own.
When
you start experiencing hair loss on your beard
area, its reason enough to get worried since the
beard is a place that is totally covered with
hair and even though men usually clean shave
their beards, the spots are quite easy to notice
since they appear as clean
spots.
Once
you notice that you are lacking hair on your
beard in spots, react immediately and seek for
medical assistance before the disease becomes
more widely spread.
Treatment of alopecia areata
barbae
Since
doctors have not yet come up with a definitive
cure for alopecia areatawhich is the main
classification of the disease, it also means that
there is non definitive treatment for alopecia
areata barbae.This should not worry you as
there is always a solution to everything no
matter how minimal.
- If
you were used to wearing your beard, the
first thing would be to clean shave it. This
way, it would not be easily noticed and it
would also help you to determine the pattern
with which the disease is occurring for
effective
treatment.
- Corticosteroid is the major
mode of treatment for the disease. Injections
are made below the epidermis of the affected
area on a monthly basis and this is when the
condition is not all that
serious.
- When the condition gets a
little bit more severe, then the
corticosteroids are administered in form of
pills where noticeable improvements occur
within four weeks. As compared to the
injections where the side effects are only
localized pain as well as skin atrophy which
are easily reversible, pills have much severe
side effects such as migraines, high blood
pressure and even diabetes. These methods are
used to treatalopecia areata
barbaedepending with the severity
of the
disease.
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