In women with excessive growth of downy hairs on the face or extremities, pulling out the hairs, shaving, or applying greasy creams or depilatories can cause significant thickening of the hairs, which become coarse and stiff and begin to grow faster than usual. An application of a 10-15 per...
Trichotillomania/hair pulling disorderExcoriation disorder/skin picking disorderTourette syndromeObsessive–compulsive disorderBody-focused repetitive behaviorsTrichotillomania/hair pulling disorder (HPD) and excoriation/skin picking disorder (SPD) are childhood-onset, body-focused repetitive behaviors that are...
(pulling one's hair out), dermatillomania (skin picking), andcompulsive shopping. Impulsivity, the key feature of these disorders, can be thought of as seeking a small, short-term gain at the expense of a large, long-term loss. ICDs may be caused by DRT: among the DRT-induced ICDs,...
Hair pulling (Trich) Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) Functional tic-like behaviors Tics, BFRB, and FND involve unwanted repetitive actions that significantly impair one's quality of life. Patients often report social isolation, embarrassment, frustration, shame, physical pain, difficulty completing...
p.Ser2Gly (SHOC2) Noonan syndrome with loose anagen hair: hair that comes off easily by pulling during the growth or anagen phase, increased frequency of septal and mitral valve defects, ectodermal anomalies, hyperactivity, nasal voice, growth hormone deficiency p.Thr468Met (PTPN11) Noonan syndr...
Hair Loss Sometimes your hamster's coat can tell you if she is unhealthy. A hamster's coat will change naturally with age and over time your fluffy friend may lose some of her fur. However, if you notice significant hair loss (alopecia), consult your vet. Thinning fur or patchy hair lo...
Rapunzel syndrome mostly arises in the context of psychiatric conditions—trichotillomania and trichophagia. In the pediatric population, hair-pulling behavior is mostly autonomic type, so children are often unaware of their act. Parents also do not pay much attention to this behavior. Psychiatric co...
Overall, I think autistic people have the same potential to learn from good old life experience as everyone else. As long as they (and often their parents too) don’t let the diagnosis itself get in the way of their self-esteem and willingness to venture out of their comfort zone. ...
She was pulling on her Daddy’s clothes and then all of a sudden her arm was hurting. Nobody could touch it and if we tried to move it she cried. Hubby knew immediately that we were faced with something that happened in 2015. Ollie was just seven months old then. Her elbow was disl...
Paronychial infections are common and may result in partial to complete destruction of the nail matrix. Body hair may be sparse, eyebrows and eyelashes may be thinned or absent, and the skin has a smooth texture. Scalp hair, generally normal during infancy and childhood, may become thin, ...