Showing posts with label alopecia areata. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alopecia areata. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Alopecia

Alopecia areata

Alopecia is generally known as common form of baldness world wide, it is the set of disorder which involves the situation of losing ones hair, it may effect on every part of the body where it usually grows.


Alopecia crop up particularly on the area of the head and the total hair of this part is almost defected by the disease.


The common form of alopecia is caused by the hair-thinning condition that occurs in adult human beings and also on the other mandrill species.


Though, the harsh type of alopecia state can differ significantly; it assorts from female to the male pattern of alopecia, the "alopecia androgenetica", onto the alopecia areata involves the loss of destructive amount of the hair of the head whereas Alopecia totalis is the other type of Alopecia; it involves in the loss of entire hair up to the most tremendous type. The Alopecia universalis involves the defect of all the hair from the patient's body.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Alopecia Areata and Hair loss: What Does Aloe Vera Have to Do with It

aloe vera

A disease of unknown cause in which well-defined bald patches occur, usually on the head and other hairy parts of the body. The condition typically clears without treatment; recurrences are common. Alopecia areata is an immune system disorder where hair follicles cease making new hairs. About 2% of us experience a case of alopecia areata at some point in their lives.


Even though medical doctors have no known cure for alopecia areata, there have been some discoveries in the medical research arena of aloe. (El Zawahry M;Rashad M;Hegazy MR;Helal M;. Use of aloe in treating dermatoses. Int J Dermatol. 1973; 12: 68-73)