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Các triệu chứng và những người có nguy cơ bị rụng tóc từng mảng (rụng lông)
Triệu chứng của bệnh
- Suddenly one or more circular or oval areas from 1 cm to 4 cm in diameter become completely denuded hair or body hair. Occasionally, ngứa or a burning sensation may be felt in the affected area, but the skin still looks normal. Usually there is regrowth in 1 to 3 months, often followed by tái phát in the same place or elsewhere;
- Sometimes abnormalities in móng tay such as striations, cracks, spots and redness. The nails can become brittle;
- Exceptionally, a loss of all the hair, especially in the youngest and, even more rarely, of all the hair.
Những người có nguy cơ
- People who have a close relative with alopecia areata. This would be the case for 1 in 5 people with alopecia areata;
- People themselves affected or whose family member suffers from allergies (asthma, hay fever, eczema, etc.) or an illness tự miễn such as autoimmune thyroiditis, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, vitiligo, or pernicious anemia.