What is ALOPECIA BARBAE?
Alopecia Barbae is a subtype of Alopecia Areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss. Different types of alopecia areata are identified by which parts of the body seem to affect the condition. Specifically, Alopecia Barbae is when the beard loss is experiencing.
This type of point baldness is not a symptom of any other disease or disorder. As an autoimmune disease, this occurs because the immune system has faulty hair growing in the beard as an invasive organism and decided to attack hair follicles to protect the body from this poorly identified intruder. Alopecia Barbae is not contagious and there is no painful condition. In some cases, the hair will eventually grow in an area where it was lost with or without treatment. Anyone can develop alopecia areata at any age, but the subtype of Alopecia Barbae is most often an adult in adult men. However, other subtypes of this condition may affect other parts of the body, such as the hairline that outlines the scalp and ohairy.
Scientists who study hair loss are not sure why Barbae alopecia affects some men and not others. There are some who believe it is related to stress, while others avoid this idea completely. There is also a research that suggests that some men may have genetic predisposition to the development of alopecia bars or that environmental, allergens, hormonal changes and fungal or viral infections may also contribute to the onset of beard loss in adult men.
When alopecia occurs, the onset of point baldness is usually sudden and unexpected. Usually this is not accompanied by pain, scarring or other physical symptoms beyond the beard of hair, although some report that they feel mild itching or observes redness in the area when the condition originally develops. Like other autoimmune diseases there are inflammation under the surface of hair follicles but at the top of the skinis rarely visible.
After Alopecia Barbae resulted in the hair loss, there is a small stain of bare, smooth skin. In some men, these patches are temporary and, as inflammation under the skin surface, the hair from the beard is missing the process of growth. In some men, alopecia Barbae is repeated. For men who experience it as a recurring condition, hair loss areas may increase every time the condition occurs.