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With patchy alopecia areata, you may have patches of hair loss that are the size of a quarter, oval-shaped, and flesh-colored. You may have bare patches on any part of your body.

Alopecia areata and the patchy hair loss it causes can be distressing. Plus, because this type of hair loss is caused by inflammation that attacks your hair follicles, it’s unpredictable.

You may have a few patches without hair. This is called patchy alopecia areata, and it’s the most common type. If you lose all the hair on your head, it’s called alopecia areata totalis.

Unlike other forms of hair loss, alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease. For reasons that are unclear, T cells mistakenly begin attacking the follicles, causing hair to fall out in patches.