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Alopecia Areata in Males, Females and Children

Roberto d’Ovidio^{* *}Correspondence: Roberto d’Ovidio, Department of Dermatology and Trichology, University of Bari, Apulia, Italy, Tel: 215.895.1803, Email:

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Introduction

The signs and symptoms of alopecia areata is that the hair starts to fall like patches and most often affects the scalp and beard.

Alopecia Areata occurs both in male and female but male experience this more likely to have a family history of the hair loss condition. Males face this type of hair loss mainly in their facial hair, as well as their scalp, chest, and back hair (Figure 1A).

Figure 1: Hair baldness, hair fall and hair trichology treatment.

Females experience this hair fall mainly in their scalp, eyebrow, and eyelashes (Figure 1B). Children younger than age 5 typically don’t experience much of an emotional impact from alopecia. After age 5, however, hair loss can be traumatizing for young children as they start noticing how they’re different from others (Figure 1C) [1-3].

Types of Alopecia Areata:

• Alopecia areata (patchy)

• Alopecia totalis

• Alopecia universalis

• Diffuse alopecia areata

• Ophiasis alopecia

References

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