This is a good time to shed some light on the incredibly common autoimmune disease, which affects about 6.8 million people in the U.S., and which nearly one-third of women experience, in some form, during their lives
Photo: Rich Fury/VF22/Getty Images for Vanity Fair For anyone living under a rock, at last night’s Academy Awards Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett’s bald look and her husband, Will Smith, got up from his front-row seat to slap him across the face. What was missing from the conversation was the reason for Pinkett Smith’s look: She has alopecia, which has caused her to lose her hair. , and which nearly one-third of women experience, in some form, during their lives.
The three main types of alopecia are: alopecia areata which appears as a patchy baldness anywhere on the body; alopecia totalis which is when someone loses all hair on their scalp; and the more rare alopecia universalis, which is when someone loses all of the hair on their body. Is there a cure? There is currently no cure for alopecia. And although there are many treatment options, there is no single universal one. “I think it’s very important to get a diagnosis before you start treating your hair loss. Many people are trying things they see in the store and ordering things on the internet,” says New York City dermatologist Dina Strachan of Aglow Dermatology. “Different types of hair loss are going to require different treatment.
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