Losing strands of your hair is normal. In fact, most people shed between 50 and 100 of them each day. But significant hair loss could be a result of an underlying condition. It could be linked to hormones or genetics. Or it could be the condition, Alopecia.
September is the month of the alopecia awareness month. Approximately 147 million people worldwide suffer from this autoimmune disorder.
What is Alopecia?
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease. This means that your immune system mistakenly attacks a part of your body. When you have alopecia areata, cells in your immune system surround and attack your hair follicles (the part of your body that makes hair). This attack on a hair follicle causes the attached hair to fall out. The more hair follicles that your immune system attacks, the more hair loss you will have.
Azelaic acid
Azelaic acid is a well-known inhibitor for 5-α-reductase, and is therefore able to inhibit the conversion of testosterone into dihydrotestosterone. Inhibition of the formation of dihydrotestosterone enables to wake up the dormant hair follicle, and if the follicle has not been completely destroyed, hair growth/regrowth is possible. The most frequently observed cause of hair loss is genetic: androgenetic alopecia. Common types of hair loss may furthermore becaused by hair diseases such as alopecia diffusa (effluvium) whereby the scalp becomes visible due to hair loss, shortage of iron, malfunctioning of thyroid gland, cancer or the use of particular medicines (some oral contraceptives or chemotherapeutic agents), and also psychological artefacts such as trichotillomania, also known as “hair pulling disorder”.
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