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Many treatments have been explored, including immunomodulatory agents such as imiquimod. [4] Tofacitinib citrate may also have benefits. In June 2014, a 25-year-old man with almost no hair on his body was reported to have grown a full head of hair, as well as eyebrows, eyelashes, and facial, armpit, and other hair, following eight months of treatment. [5]
The underlying mechanism involves failure by the body to recognize its own cells, with subsequent immune-mediated destruction of the hair follicle. [7] No cure for the condition is known. [7] Some treatments, particularly triamcinolone injections and 5% minoxidil topical creams, [11] [10] are effective in speeding hair regrowth.
H. Harris, publishing in the British Journal of Dermatology in 1947, wrote Native Americans have the least body hair, Han Chinese people and black people have little body hair, white people have more body hair than black people and Ainu have the most body hair. [18] Anthropologist Arnold Henry Savage Landor described the Ainu as having hairy ...
Here, a GP answers some common questions about the hair loss condition. – What is alopecia? ... In terms of demographics, there is no gender split, but in most cases alopecia areata will start ...
Risk Factors for Hair Loss in Women. There are quite a few risk factors for hair loss in women. They include: Age. FPHL usually develops around midlife and continues to progress as you get older.
Hair growth conditions. Gradual thinning of hair with age is a natural condition known as involutional alopecia. This is caused by an increasing number of hair follicles switching from the growth, or anagen, phase into a resting phase, or telogen phase, so that remaining hairs become shorter and fewer in number. An unhealthy scalp environment ...
Seborrheic dermatitis is a form of eczema that affects more than 10 million people and causes flakiness, itching, irritation, and in rare instances, hair loss. Here's what you need to know.
Hypotrichosis is an uncommon condition where there is little to no hair development on the head, in the places of the body where hair normally grows, such as the brows above the eyes and the edges of the eyelids. [5]