Can you treat Alopecia Areata?

My son has Alopecia Areata. How or what are the symptoms? Is it just loosing all the body hair?

1 answer to “Can you treat Alopecia Areata?”

A: Alopecia Areata is treatable but body hair loss may be something else

Samuel Lam, MD

Alopecia areata is typically a condition that affects the scalp only in small circular patches without a clear causative factor although the thinking is that it can be a T cell immune dysregulation. It can affect the eyebrows too and the entire hair being gone. that would be a condition of alopecia totalis. If... more

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