Alopecia or Alopekós from the Greek Latin meaning fox; a qualifier given by this animal, which has the facility to change its coat twice a year, refers to total or partial hair loss, in men it is more common than in women and very unfortunately it is occurring in children under five years of age, this depending on several risk factors such as diet, stress, excessive use of chemicals, illness and the worst of all hereditary.
We can say that it is a disease when the hair follicle weakens, causing a variety of symptoms such as alopecia areata, which gradually loses hair from small or large strands, leaving gaps the size of a coin, until it falls completely. hair, being a total baldness.
Normally stress is the main cause of hair loss, but there is a wide variety of them that range from chronic diseases to traumatic diseases, it is advisable to go to a specialist, have a good diet, be aware that if it is by inheritance know that little can be done with genetics. The alopecia is not curable, but if you can stop or delay the total or partial fall of hair, although there are many studies on it, no drugs specifically for the disease as such, because the doctors only fight the causes that produce it, trying the patient psychologically or if he suffers from stress with medications for that, one of the treatmentsThe most common are the transplants of healthy follicles in the affected areas, extracting a new culture of healthy hair, as well as steroid injections, ultraviolet light and even radio frequency, among others.
Although there are many myths about hair loss, what we must remember is that the problem is in the capillary area of the hair, not the outside, or the scalp and that no component or agent causes the hair to fall or grow more, since that your life, so to speak, comes from receiving oxygenation of the blood flow, a good blood circulation is ideal for healthy hair.
