Alopecia Disease: Symptoms and Causes

What Is Alopecia?

Alopecia areata is an autoimmune illness that causes your hair to fall out, frequently in quarter-sized clumps. Everybody experiences hair loss to a different degree. Some people only occasionally lose it. Many other people lose. Sometimes hair falls off and then comes back. Others experience permanent hair growth.

This disorder comes in various forms. The primary variety of alopecia areata is the most prevalent, although there are additional, more uncommon varieties:

• Alopecia areata totalis denotes complete baldness of the head.
• Alopecia areata Universalis is the loss of hair on the entire body.
• Diffuse alopecia areata is characterised by a rapid thinning of your hair rather than lost patches.
• Ophiasis alopecia areata is defined by hair loss in a ring around the sides and back of your head.

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