Alopecia Areata Hair Loss Treatment

Description for Alopecia Treatment. Alopecia is the medical term for baldness.  It is a potential side effect of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Hair loss may take place all over the body, comprising the head, face, arms and legs. Alopecia is not transmittable. This disease often takes place in healthy people.

Types of Alopecia. The types of alopecia include:

• Alopecia Areata:

When a person has a medical illness known as alopecia areata, the hair falls out in round patches. The hair can fall out on the scalp.

Alopecia areata can cause various kinds of hair loss. Each of these types has a different name:

1. Alopecia areata (hair loss in patches).

2. Alopecia total (be unable to find all hair on the scalp).

3. Alopecia Universalis (be unable to find all hair on the body).

• Scarring Alopecia.

• Male pattern baldness also called Androgenic Alopecia.

• Diffused Unpatterned

• Baldness in female patterns.

• Traction Alopecia.