Alopecia Stress - How Do You Manage It?
Alopecia is generally considered a lack of hair or loss of hair from areas on the body which normally contain hair. Most commonly alopecia affects the scalp area, leaving people either partially or fully bald. Alopecia can occur at any age and in general it affects about 1% of the population.
Alopecia can come in many different forms. Here are just some of the forms of alopecia which can occur:
- Alopecia Areata - hair loss occurs in patches all over the body
- Alopecia Totalis - total scalp baldness
- Alopecia Universalis - total body baldness
- Alopecia Barbae - Loss of facial hair (for a man) especially in the beard area
There are several other forms of alopecia which I won’t go into here.
If all the body’s systems are working well, adult people lose on average from 30 to 200 hairs per day. However this number can increase dramatically due to many different factors. Stress is not the only reason for alopecia, but it is, however, the main one. Stress, emotional or physical can cause alopecia. Anything from losing a loved one to overtraining at a sport can cause stress related alopecia. Basically stress related alopecia is one of your body’s ways of surviving the stress factor. The production of hair shuts down during periods of stress as your body is busy coping with the stress.
It really is a cycle when it comes to stress and alopecia. The stress brings on the alopecia and then you start stressing about the alopecia which can make the problem worse. The more stressed you get the more hair you lose and so on.
So what can you do? Firstly, realize you are not alone. There are thousands of people worldwide suffering from the same problem. Secondly, there are treatments for alopecia which do work. Incorporate these treatments into your daily routine and in time you will have your hair back. It will not happen overnight, unfortunately. I wish I could tell you otherwise, but it will happen if you use the right treatment. Remember you may need to also look at also treating the stress which brought on the alopecia if it does not disappear of its own accord.
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