Different Treatments For Hair And Scalp Diseases

Patchy hair loss or Alopecia Areata is a very unpredictable medical disorder

. Also hard to pronounce and even harder to live with. The disease affects men and women equally and can start anywhere from the age of 20 and upwards. There is also no cultural disposition for the disease. People all over the world suffer from the disorder.

The treatment with laser is so good that more than half of the patients gets their hair back in less than six months. No really good treatment is total available apart from laser treatment. They have recently discovered some new genes and their function for immune diseases. There are some strong medications that have shown to keep a balance off the hair loss cortisone being the standard choice. But as soon as the patient stops using the medication the hair keeps falling off again.

There are also some negative side effects to cortisone so this treatment can not be used for too long. So what we are hoping for is more of a spontaneous bettering of hair growth more than a permanent one. In severe cases the patients will have to use wigs or toupees. The only scientifically proven treatment in serious cases of alopecia areata is DCP-treatment (difenylcyklopropenon). This is a immune modulating treatment where the patients will be exposed to the impact of difenylcyklopropenon and then gets the drug painted in the scalp under strict supervision and control.

Psoriasis is one of the most spread diseases among people. It affects 2-3 percent of the population and is equally common among men and women. Psoriasis can make debut any time in life but most common is before the age of forty. Psoriasis do not infect others. Psoriasis is commonly recognized from skin redness, scaling, distinct patches, sometimes includes rashes which is often mild to moderate. There are different forms of psoriasis.

Plaque psoriasis or patchy psoriasis, is the most common form. Plaque psoriasis can show up over the whole body but most common on elbow, knee and on lower back.

Guttat psoriasis or dropped shaped psoriasis. Small drop like rashes that suddenly show up all over the body. Starts off from streptococci related throat infections, tonsillitis. Often the state will be dissolved and the plaque disappear but sometimes changes form to plaque psoriasis.

Scalp psoriasis can in mild cases look like dandruff and in more serious cases it looks like hard white cakes over parts of the scalp. This type of psoriasis often come down a couple of millimeters from the hairline. It canan hard to distinguish from dandruff eczema.

by: Mats Stolt

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