THIS IS NOT COSMETIC PROBLEM
My hair has been thinning and falling out for more than two years. Later, eyebrows, eyelashes, fluffy hair on the face and all over the body began to fall out. At the same time, the scalp burns and itches, the eyelids swell, and sometimes the whole body burns. The sun and heat are very harmful – burning and itching immediately increase.
The face has a greasy coating, the pores are enlarged, the skin looks unhealthy, dull. Sometimes it feels like something is crawling over the body.
Individual hairs sometimes slowly grow back, but they are thin and unsustainable, so they fall out again. Burning and itching go away in the evening or in the cold. The doctors she consulted could not find out anything. So what’s wrong with me? It is impossible to live in such a state…”
Alla, Volyn region
3 of what is described in the letter, I can assume the presence of at least two problems: demodicosis and total alopecia (baldness), – answers Zhanna Prykhodko, a dermatologist of the highest category.
In particular, the subcutaneous mite that causes demodicosis causes peeling, redness, itching of the skin, rashes on it, abscesses. Moreover, in an advanced stage, the disease can spread to the skin of the back, shoulders, chest, arms, and thighs. The burning and itching mentioned by the reader are caused by the vital activity of the tick. The skin of the cheeks and forehead is covered with bumps, the complexion becomes earthy-gray, the unhealthy shine does not disappear after washing, the pores are enlarged.
The wings of the nose and eyelids may increase in size and swell. In the later stages, when hair follicles are affected, hair and eyelashes may fall out (the mite destroys hair follicles). Actually, this is also described. As well as the fact that the condition worsens under the influence of heat – in fact, the tick shows its maximum activity at high temperature, therefore exacerbation of demodicosis occurs most often in the warm season, as well as after a hot bath.
In addition to the fact that demodicosis has external manifestations, it leads to a violation of the activity of the glands of internal secretion, diseases of the liver and gastrointestinal tract, and chronic inflammatory processes.
In fact, demodicosis can also cause hair loss on the head and body. Or total alopecia can be a parallel disease. The main cause of this type of baldness is considered to be an autoimmune process aimed at hair follicle cells, which stop developing and die.
The disease affects all hair on the head, including eyelashes and eyebrows. Moreover, hair falls out very quickly – literally in two or three months. Hair loss is often accompanied by other symptoms: headache, weakness, fatigue. Treatment of total alopecia is long and complex, aimed not so much at the cosmetic effect (hair growth) as at overcoming the cause itself. Hair regeneration occurs very slowly, over several years. First, eyelashes appear (although they grow very thin, almost colorless and fragile), later – eyebrows.
The hair on the head is restored last, but, as a rule, not completely.
So, first of all, I advise the reader to undergo a comprehensive examination. And not only do an analysis to detect a subcutaneous mite and an analysis of the hair structure – you need to give blood for analysis, liver tests, allergy tests, undergo an analysis to detect infections, check blood vessels, hormonal background, adrenal glands, determine the state of the thyroid gland, immune system.
For example, such diseases as systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma and rheumatism often lead to total alopecia. And demodicosis often develops in people with hormonal and immune disorders, chronic infections, endocrine problems.
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