Hair Loss Articles:
- Alopecia Areata
- Alopecia
- Alopecia Androgenica and Woman
- Aromatherapy
- Hair Loss and Childbirth
- Hair Loss and Pregnancy
- Hair Surgery
- Indian Head Massage
- Hair Loss and Asthma/Eczema
- Hair Loss Types
- Major Causes and Reasons for Hair Loss
- Monkey Message
- Minoxidil
- Philial
- Hair Loss and Pill
- Propecia
- PUVA
- Reiki
- Squill
- Steroids
- Thin Hair
- Thin Hair and Menopause
- Wig
Is HairLoss Related to My Asthma or Eczema?
If you suffer from asthma or eczema as a family trait this put you in the medical category labelled "atopic".
Many cases of alopecia areata occur in people who atopic. Research figures have found this to be true in as many as 50 per cent of cases. This seems to vary in different parts of the world. In a North American study eczema or asthma or both were present in 18 per cent of children with alopecia areata and in 9 per cent of adults. But in Japan, only 10 per cent of patients were atopic.
You are not more likely to suffer from alopecia areata if you are atopic, but if you do suffer from this combination, the prognosis is not good, particularly in a child. When so much painstaking medical research has been done, it may seem astounding to most of us that the doctors are still baffled by the cause. Many patients are offered no treatment, in their own interests.
Dr Dawber sees this as sometimes the best way to cope with it. If the prognosis is poor - for example, if a child under the age of puberty has a total loss of hair and is atopic - then help in adjusting to the problems of wearing a wig will be of far greater value to the child than the raising of false hopes.