Your diet becomes a powerful treatment tool – While no specific diet can cure alopecia areata, nutritional deficiencies can worsen the condition and slow potential regrowth.

Kristen Whitney, DO, FAAD, determines systemic treatment options for severe alopecia areata based on the patient’s medical history, past treatments tried, potential adverse events, in addition ...

There’s no cure for alopecia areata, but even with this condition, your hair follicles are still alive. This means your hair can grow back again, even if you’ve had more than 50% hair loss and ...

Alopecia areata is an autoimmune condition, in which one’s immune system basically attacks the hair follicles, which causes hair loss. 5) Treatment for alopecia depends on the cause ...

At 25, Daniels was diagnosed with alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss. Doctors had few treatment options to offer him. “That's the worst part.

Alopecia areata can affect your emotional well-being and your quality of life. Some people even think about suicide. It's normal to be sad or angry when you have a condition that affects your self ...

So, bad alopecia areata, severe alopecia areata, tends to be chronic. And so, we should expect that when a treatment works, one will need to take it chronically in order to maintain hair regrowth.

How a doctor at Johns Hopkins has been using diabetes medication to treat alopecia. Dr. Crystal Aguh’s research shows promising results for reversing “devastating” hair loss.

There was an identifiable reduction in Severity of Alopecia Tool score to 42.6 following dupilumab treatment (P < .01). The average immunoglobin level was 3.0 prior to dupilumab initiation, which ...