Alopecia Areata: What are the treatment options?

Alopecia Areata is an autoimmune disorder in which your immune system tends to attack your own hair follicles. In response to these attacks, the hair follicles become weak and fall-out ultimately, causing drastic hair loss. This type of hair loss occurs in patches all over the scalp.

Alopecia Areata sometimes develops to cause hair loss from all over the scalp and is called as Alopecia totalis. In extreme cases, it can also cause hair loss from all over the body and is named as Alopecia Universalis.

The condition can affect anyone regardless of age and gender. The reasons causing such hair loss illness vary in different people.

We have been successfully dealing the balding issues with a hair transplant in Dubai, but for Alopecia Areata, the condition must be diagnosed before suggesting any treatment for that.

Causes of Alopecia Areata

As we know Alopecia Areata is an autoimmune disorder in which your immune system attacks your own body cells, genetics and other factors can combine to further enhance the hair loss condition.

Treatment options

There is no known cure for Alopecia Areata, but there exist treatments that you can try and slow down to either prevent it from happening or to stop it from developing further.

Medical treatments

For mild cases f Alopecia Areata, your doctor may prescribe you to go for topical medicines such as Minoxidil and Propecia.

Minoxidil is to apply regularly two to three times on the scalp a day. It is an FDA approved medicines that are effective in putting more quantity of strands in the growth phase, which ultimately improves the hair density.

There also exist a few risk factors along with the usage of Minoxidil for hair loss as it requires to be used for a longer period to show some effective results. And with permanent usage, it can induce several side effects including skin problems, eczema, and rashes.

 Propecia is considered mostly for the male pattern baldness condition, which is caused by genetics. Since Alopecia Areata and genetic hair loss can be interlinked, a mixture of Minoxidil and Propecia is essential for sorting out such hair loss conditions.

Scalp injections

Scalp injections are viable for dealing with so many hair loss concerns in men and women. The fluid that is injected with these injections is concentrated with higher growth factors and ingredients that are helpful in putting the hair growth on the right path.

Laser therapy

Low-level laser light is found to be essential in repairing the damaged hair follicles and stimulating the growth of the healthy ones.

It is done by wearing a portable comb-like device that exerts laser lights directly on the affected parts of the scalp. By undergoing a 6-8 session of laser hair treatment provides unbelievable outcomes. At hair transplant Dubai clinic, we use HairMax headband for laser hair loss treatment.

Book a free consultation

If you are looking for professional assistance on your hair loss conditions, then there is no reason to stay back and book your consultation by just filling an online form on our website. Our expert's surgeons would guide you properly about your specific hair loss condition and will provide you suitable remedies for that.