Post-surgical alopecia?

8 year old daughter to have tonsils & adenoids removed next week. Just started to regrow hair all over head in May. Anyone with recurrent patches post surgery? This was just brought to my attention to be a possibility due to the stressors on the body related to the surgical procedure.

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Permalink Reply by Carrie Thompson on June 30, 2010 at 8:59pm
My daughter's alopecia began just a couple of months after she had her tonsils removed. I have always thought that was the trigger but the doctors just smiled and nodded when I suggested that.
Permalink Reply by Dominique Cleopatra on July 1, 2010 at 7:48pm
I had a minor surgery just prior to my first bout of extensive AA that never went away.
Permalink Reply by Tina (Jillians mom) on July 8, 2010 at 9:36pm
How old was she & how old now? Alopecia status?
Permalink Reply by Carrie Thompson on July 8, 2010 at 10:00pm
My daughter was 4, she lost every bit of hair on her body. She is 23 now and has hair on most of her head. It has never grown back on the lower part of her scalp in the back and she still gets patches that fall out. She has some eyelashes and eyebrows but not much. When she was a senior in high school it all fell out again.
She has never let it slow her down. She has even written a children's book about having Alopecia.
Permalink Reply by Tina (Jillians mom) on August 19, 2010 at 12:22pm
Wow...how inspirational!
Permalink Reply by Liz on July 1, 2010 at 9:31pm
You know my son had an abscess on his liver and was hospitalized for about a week and was on very strong antibiotics because the Dr.'s didn't know what type of infection they were dealing with...Of course Cancer ran thru our minds but thanks to god it was a bacterial infection curable.....Well my point was that when he was on all those strong antibiotics we started noticing his head was full of peach fuzz and his eyebrows started growing in....but after he was all done with his medicines and like a few weeks after being done it all fell out again....so yeah that was very frustrating but I do wish you luck.....
Permalink Reply by Tina (Jillians mom) on July 5, 2010 at 5:23pm
Thanks for responses. Surgery tomorrow.
Permalink Reply by Tina (Jillians mom) on July 8, 2010 at 9:34pm
Surgery went well & jillian is recovering as to be expected. We'll see if hairloss redevlops post op.
Permalink Reply by Carrie Thompson on July 8, 2010 at 9:53pm
Good luck. I am glad the surgery went well.

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