ALOPECIA IDIOPÁTICA

	A
	ALOPECIA IDIOPÁTICA
	*ALOPECIA IDIOPÁTICA*

ALOPECIA IDIOPÁTICA

Idiopática alopecia

It is the loss of hair, in absence of any other appreciable skin disorder or general disease.

It can be seen affected any velluda zone, being more frequent in the hairy leather and the beard.

In little occasions all the hair of the body can be lost (alopecia universalis).

Causes

Strangers.

Signs and symptoms

Sudden loss of the hair in zones defined clearly.

Noncause pain.

Picor noncause.

Factors of risk

Stress.

Inheritance.

Prevention

The diagnosis is made by inspection, although it can be necessary to make complementary tests, mainly blood analysis, to discard a secondary alopecia (due to general or sistémicas diseases).

Also it is necessary to distinguish it of those secondary ones to skin transtornos, as the tineas (fúngicas affections of the skin), of which difference because in these last ones there is wild inflammatory assets, that are growing, and because in these it is not that they do not appear hair, but that they grow weak and is broken. In addition, the alopecias produced by skin transtornos usually itch.

General Measures

Báńese and lávese the hair with normality: it is not a contagious disorder.

Avoid the pulls in the normal hair of the zones near the loss of the hair.

Medication

Twice apply steroids of topical use one or to the day (if it is not indicated to him of another form). The ideal application is after the bath or to wash the head. This facilitates the application and increases its penetration. Use products solely nonfluorados steroids for the hairy leather and ingle.

In special cases, steroid injections in the affected zones and oral medication with cortisone can be used. The minoxidil (or its more modern derivatives) topical (medication prescribed for the growth of the hair) can be from aid; nevertheless, he is very expensive and not always he is effective.

The injections of triamcinolona in the hairy leather can be useful in some cases.

The fotoquimioterapia can be recommended.

Diagnosis and treatment

Loss of all the corporal hair (alopecia universalis).

Growth of the incomplete or slow hair.

Complications

Normally reversible, with new spontaneous growth in a period of one to three years.

A total spare part in people with zones of small loss of the hair can be expected.

It returns to appear in a 25% of the cases.

U.E.P. Add to Favorite Home Page Recommend this Page
2008 Š HIPERnatural.COM www.hipernatural.com Your Source of Natural Health in Internet