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Alopecia - Involuntary Hair Loss
Become wiser on alopecia. What is it? Who is hit by alopecia and why? Hair loss can begin suddenly and typically as stain scaling. Toftild has extensive experience with solutions for hair loss and helps women, men and children affected by alopecia areata and alopecia universalis.
What is alopecia?
Alopecia areata (or just alopecia in daily speech) is an unpredictable disease that can affect both men and women - regardless of age. More specifically, it is an autoimmune skin disease where the body's own immune system attacks the hair follicles. The growth cycle of the hair stops and the hair begins to fall. Alopecia is found in different variations, of which alopecia areata - patchy baldness - Is the most widespread.
Alopecia often begins with a punctual hair loss on the head. The hair loss varies in the individual and the affected area can change size and scope. If all the hair is lost on the head, the condition alopecia totalis is called. If all the hair is lost on the body, the condition is called alopecia universalis. Alopecia is diagnosed by the dermatologist, often based on blood tests to exclude other diseases.
Alopecia Totalis and Alopecia Universalis
There are also other forms of alopecia that are more rare than Alopecia Areata (spot scaling). One is Alopecia Totalis, which - as the name also suggests - leads to losing all hair on your head. If the hair loss develops into the rest of the body, the disease is called alopecia universalis.
Who is hit by Alopecia?
Alopecia strikes more often among people who are related to people with autoimmune disorders. It can be, for example, diabetes, lupus, thyroid disease, celiac disease or atopic eczema. Women and men are often affected by the disease. Alopecia may come at any time, but in over half of the cases, the first signs develop before or at the age of 20.
The frequency of alopecia is constant and the same worldwide. It is uncertain why alopecia strikes, but the genetic background is typically the controlling factor. Other indicators such as stress and trauma are suspected of also triggering alopecia.
Women can be affected by androgenetic alopecia, which is a powerful thinning of the hair at the top of the head. Androgenic alopecia is hormonally conditioned and, like the other types of alopecia, may be hereditary.
Alopecia and treatment options
Today, there are no effective approved treatment options against alopecia. However, a new remedy has emerged from the US that is currently being tested in Denmark. Treatment with adrenal cortex hormone and light treatment is typically the treatment options used. You may find that your alopecia is inhibited for a period of time while you are undergoing treatment - but generally you can say nothing about the forecasts to create re -growth.
Research is being done on the development of new treatment methods, which are primarily based on the use of immune contributing substances. But there can be many side effects to these treatments, so you just need to be aware of that.
Facts and Talk about Plet Small Detness
According to one of our largest health portals here in Denmark, health.dk, there are approx. 1.7% of the total population that gets alopecia to some degree. According to health.dk, there are also 80% who in a few years will again experience getting the hair fully or partially again. This means that 20% will experience lasting hair loss.
Alopecia thus affects up to 100,000 people a year in Denmark.
Get a professional hair consultation
Alopecia can hit everyone. Therefore, our solutions to alleviate your hair loss are as diverse as the people affected by alopecia. Contact us and hear more about how we can help you with a lifelike hair solution. We offer you a free email consultation where you can hear about all the different options we can bring into play to give you exactly the hair splendor you want.
Firstly we should ask you to send an email to Lise Toftild, where you describe your hair loss, whether you have been looked after by a doctor/dermatologist and whether you have been diagnosed. In addition, we ask you to attach pictures of your hair loss so Lise can find the optimal solution for you. One from each side, one from the front and one from the top. Please describe your wishes in terms of the hair as well as your activity level. After that, Lise Toftild will return to you with a bid for a possible solution. Please also state which department you want to visit us in; Aalborg, Aarhus or at Frederiksberg. NOTE! The response time by mail can be up to 7 business days. Do not book a time until you have received a response from Lise.
Hair solution for stain scaling
If you have Alopecia Areata - Plet Smoronity - you can get a specially made hair solution with hair for LIFE® by Toftild, which covers only the area where you are affected by baldness. The solution does not necessarily have to be a full wig, but can also be smaller hair parts that are attached to the specific areas where you lack your hair. Feel free to call us to get advice and guidance on everything that has to do with alternative hair.
Alopecia and grants to wig
If you are affected by alopecia to some degree and if you experience it as a serious strain on your self -perception and your quality of life, fortunately there is help to pick up. The disability that is losing large parts of its hair or all its hair can be remedied to a significant extent with wig or hair topping.
Alopecia is defined as a disability when the skin disease is found lasting. This means that you can apply for grants from the municipality for more hair in the form of wig or toupe. The grant is granted by your municipality after a specific and individual assessment of your situation.
Alopecia is covered by the grant you can apply through Section 112 of the Service Act. A wig that remedies your alopecia is in this context a body -borne and personal aid. The grant you get to your wig, you can use with exactly the supplier you want. Even if your municipality has a purchasing agreement with a supplier other than the one you choose.
Application for grants can be found at your municipality's citizen service. The application must be submitted digitally.
Have you lost your brows?
Ifm. Alopecia universalis you also lose your brows in whole or in part. Some choose to get the brows tattooed on while others choose this new smart method: Bryn stickers.
They work like child tattoos. Cut them out, put them on the skin (without hair), dip with a damp cloth, and vupti, then you have eyebrows again. The brows are available in 5 models and 11 colors.
What solutions are there?
Depending on whether you have alopecia areata (stain scalding) or alopecia totalis, where you have lost everything get upside down, there are different solutions.
In some cases of Alopecia Areata, a hair is tops a really good and flexible solution, to cover the bare spots.
For many, a standard wig is the optimal solution. Standard wigs come in a wealth of colors and hairstyles as well as different sizes. And then we often have them in stock or can get them home pretty quickly.
If you don't fit a default wig we have Hair for life by Toftild. It is individually made wigs that are made specifically for you. The wig, or the partial wig, is manufactured after a fixed cast to achieve a 100% optimal fit and the wig can be stuck, so you can use it all around the clock - even when you sleep.
