Triggers

Hi everyone I was just wondering if anyone had surgery or shock or sickness that might of started there alopecia areata or if it just started with no known trigger I don't know for sure but my daugters derm thinks this was triggered from her eye surgery does anyone know if this is possible. Thanks

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Permalink Reply by kryssiecat on April 14, 2013 at 12:37pm

They, meaning the medical community, THINK it is an autoimmune disease. It is still just a theory. It's the best one they have but it's still just a theory. The reason they can't treat alopecia consistently with success is because they don't actually know 100% for sure why it happens. They're just treating symptoms, not the cause. You can't really cure something if you don't know why it's happening in the first place. They also don't quite understand how our immune system works and why it doesn't attack us more than it does. We are all unfortunately in a medical grey area.

Permalink Reply by michelle on April 14, 2013 at 12:48pm

Hi. I think we need to be careful about what WE think vs. what has been researched. Alopecia in its may forms is in fact an autoimmune disease. What is in question is what causes this autoimmune diseases. Like many other autoimmune diseases it becomes a frustration in trying to figure out underlying causes. I have AU...I work with children and youth who have Type 1 Diabetes (what used to be called Juvenile Diabetes). This is also under the umbrella of autoimmune diseases. A person's immune system kills off the eyelet cells in the pancreas that produces insulin. Finding underlying causes for these diseases would be wonderful. In the meantime as long as there is current research then there is always hope for a cure....

Permalink Reply by MaddiiBoo on April 14, 2013 at 2:10pm
All non causal or idiopathic diseases are just labelled as autoimmune conditions. And if they can't find a cause they blame stress. If it was an autoimmune condition for sure thrn people would not be able to regrow their hair by eliminating allergens. Just my two cents.

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