What is alopecia?

Answer 1

Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disorder that causes your hair to come out, often in clumps the size and shape of a quarter. The amount of hair loss is different in everyone. Some people lose it only in a few spots. Others lose a lot. Sometimes, hair grows back but falls out again later. In others, hair grows back for good.

There are different types of this condition. Alopecia areata is most common in its main form, but there are other, more rare types:

Alopecia areata totalis means you’ve lost all the hair on your head.

Alopecia areata universalis is the loss of hair over your entire body.

Diffuse alopecia areata is a sudden thinning of your hair rather than lost patches.

Ophiasis alopecia areata causes hair loss in a band shape around the sides and back of your head.

Answer 2

Alopecia is the technical term for hair loss and baldness.

It's perhaps most often used to refer to patchy hair loss (alopecia areata) or complete hair loss (Gail Porter, for example) which is either alopecia totalis (bald scalp) or alopecia universalis (entirely bald from top to toe). These are thought to be auto-immune problems.

Androgenic alopecia is 'normal' baldness, male pattern or female pattern which result from an inherited sensitivity to a derivative of testosterone.

There's also traction alopecia which results from hairstyles that cause the hair to be pulled too hard for long periods .. too tight a ponytail or braids. Alopecia is another name for baldness. It is the absence of hair from any part of the body where hair would normally grow.

Answer 3

Alopecia is the loss of bodily hair. Usually it occurs on the scalp, but some people suffer from systemic alopecia in which they lose all their bodily hair.

Answer 4

Alopecia is simply hair loss. It can be from pulling on hair, chemicals, pony tails and even medical conditions. You need to find the cause of your alopecia.