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Article: "My Little Boy Was Losing His Hair".(a mother's account of a son's ongoing battle with alopecia areata, which caused him to lose hair)
- Article from:
- Good Housekeeping
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
- Author:
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We kept reassuring him that it might grow back. What we didn't say was that his condition could escalate into a more severe form.
For as long as I could remember, my son, Nick, had been missing a spot of hair about the size of a quarter on the back of his head. I assumed it was some kind of birthmark and never really paid much attention to it. When he was 4, a second spot appeared, so 1 asked our pediatrician about it during a regular checkup. The doctor told me that Nick probably had alopecia areata, something I'd never heard of before. She also said not to worry, because many kids with the condition lose small patches of hair that later grow back for good.
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