Article: IT HURTS TO HEAR OTHER LITTLE BOYS SCREAM 'BALDY BALDY' AGONY OF RYAN, 5, AS HE COPES WITH HAIR-LOSS DISEASE.(News)

Byline: By NATASHA WEALE

NINA WEST thought her son Ryan had taken a pair of scissors to his hair when she saw bald patches on his scalp.

But the five-year-old's hair loss was due to something much worse than a childish prank - alopecia.

Little Ryan is one of the country's youngest sufferers of the disease.

And Nina, 28, revealed both she and her son - described as a wee angel by family friends - are struggling to cope with the diagnosis and cruel taunts from bullies.

She said: "The other day we were in Burger King and three ...

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