Knowing What to look for.
When the immune system attacks the hair follicle, there are effectively two assaults:
One of the hair producing mechanism and the second is of the colour producing mechanism. When hair starts to regrow in the bald patches, initially it is without colour and is baby fine.
Then within time it begins to thicken and regain its lost colour. Knowing this is important, because you could actually be seeing a recovery, but because initially it has little cosmetic value, assume the product in not working:
The following picture shows such a patch that is just starting this recovery . You will note that some hair in the patch is without colour, some is white on the tip and is darkening at the root. You will also note that some of the patch still has to switch the hair back on again.
This blog is going to deal with two areas:
Beard / Neck Hairloss known as alopecia barbea when it is caused by an auto-immune malfunction.
Eyebrow hairloss – which can be brought about by a number of different things.
The reason that we have started a blog specific to facial hairloss is because we have been having a lot of success in reversing a lot of such problems. However we keep being asked similar questions over and over, so we thought it useful to run a blog that have a number of case histories and eventually will have all of the data that we have collected on this annoying problem.
The first step is to define the type of hair loss that you have.
So let’s start with the Beard problem as we see more of this:
Task one is to work out if you have an auto-immune problem ( Alopecia Barbae ) or Tinea Capitis, (ringworm).
The two problems present a similar circular pattern of loss, but are treated differently as the later is a fungal infection.
If the patches in the beard are smooth to touch, you probably have “barbae”.
You can see examples on http://www.alopecia-barbae.com If it is a fungal infection like ringworms it will not have a silky smooth feeling. Examples on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworm