While anyone can get COVID toes, studies have shown that young children andteensseem to be affected the most. Many of these young patients also do not experience more common symptoms of the virus. The reason behind this is not yet known. Whether COVID toes are contagiousor not is one of...
Hair loss, also called alopecia, can startat almost any age as you enter adulthood. You can start losing your hair as early as your late teens and early 20s. But you might have a full head of hair with almost no thinning or balding until well into your 50s and 60s. There's a lot ...
More About This Book How We Roll Natasha Friend Quinn is a teen who loves her family, skateboarding, basketball, and her friends, but after she is diagnosed with a condition called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Jake was once a star football...
* alopecia areata (al-o-PEA-shah a-ree-AH-ta) is a condition that leads to sudden hair loss, often in small, round patches on the scalp. The cause is not known. * behavior therapy is a type of counseling that works to help people change their actions. What Is It Like to Live ...
Vitiligo, a condition that destroys pigment-making cells in the scalp Alopecia areata causes patches of hair (usually ones with color) to fall out. This can look like sudden graying because the hair that’s left is gray or white. When your hair regrows, it could be gray, white, or your...
Hair loss:When you lose more strands of hair than what’s considered average (up to 100 a day) and fewer or none grow back. There are different kinds and causes of hair loss (also calledalopecia) that can affect both adults and children. ...
At 18 years old, she was diagnosed with alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss; eventually, it progressed into the harsher form of alopecia universalis, which is characterized by complete hair loss. “That journey was really difficult for me—not only physically, bu...
factor to male pattern baldness is the action of male hormones on the hair follicles. In men who are genetically predisposed to male pattern baldness, the androgens act on the hair follicles and destroy them. This is the reason male pattern baldness also gets the name androgenetic alopecia. ...
Hair donations go towards makingwigs for children and adults who have temporarily or permanently lost their hair. This can be from chemotherapy, radiation therapy, thyroid disease, alopecia areata (a disease that attacks hair follicles), Trichotillomania (a hair-pulling disorder), severe scalp infec...
Immune-mediatedthrombocytopenia: An autoimmune blood disorder in which the immune system attacks platelets Kawasaki disease: A condition that causes inflammation of blood vessels, often affecting children under five Chronic B-cell lymphocyticleukemia ...