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Does anyone out there have a teenage son suffering hair loss? my son, 18 is losing hair, lots on pillow every day. He is anxious about this . There is M P B in my family but not in any male this young. Ive suggested seeing his doctor to rule out any health issues but he finds it hard to face. Any advice apart from wigs and caps?

Sorry to hear this Catherine. I lost all my hair at the age of 15, alopecia totallis. There are various degres of this disease, alopecia universalis, totallis, areata, etc etc. The first is all hair, the 2nd the hair on the head and the 3rd is when it falls out in patches.

Get him to a specialist as quickly as possible, my life was hell, I was bullied at school and I do hope this does not happen to your son. Mine did come back but in later life it all fell out and now I don't have any hair at all, but of course today, this is "cool" and I quite flaunt it. Not so good when you are a teenager though.

As I said, get him to a specialist, soon as you can. My thoughts are with you.

Bernie

Catherine

Sorry to hear about your sons problem. It must be so hard for him at the age of 18, but he needs to go to the doctor as the worry is proberly adding to the problem.

I lost a bit of hair 4 years ago. The doctor put it down to stress and said it would grow back but to date it has not grown back. But where it is, I can get away with it being a female and shoulder length hair but at 41 I am aware of it.

Bernie has the right answer he needs to go to his Doctor and be refered by him to a specialist. so he can put his mind at rest

I wish him all the best in this

Deb K

thanks Bernie my Boy and Debbie K for your advice. I am going to persuade him to go to the docs, im sure you are right, he should have some tests to rule out any health issues. I know he is finding it hard to face , difficult at his age but it has to be done. Will keep you posted thanks for your concern.

thanks Bernie my Boy and Debbie K for your advice. I am going to persuade him to go to the docs, im sure you are right, he should have some tests to rule out any health issues. I know he is finding it hard to face , difficult at his age but it has to be done. Will keep you posted thanks for your concern.

Keep this thread in your bookmarks Catherine, I have. Come back if you want to talk some more and also, please let me know how your son gets on.

Thinking of you both,
Bernie

Thanks Bernie, I m trying hard to help him but at the same time not increase his anxiety .

You are handling it the correct way. I went through hell in the 1950s, people then were not so tolerant as today. People with glasses were called 4 eyes, people with calipers due to Polio were called robots, etc. etc. I have a Downs grandson and he is in mainstream schooling and he gets on fine. It may be bad for your son, I don't really know but if he is strong enough he could face them out, shave the lot off and tell his mates he's had a number zero.

I don't really know him but you naturally do. Keep his confidence up, you can tell him about me if you like, say I am someone you knew from years ago. If he wants to know how I got on you can tell him the truth, once I got out of my teens, I was OK. Been married twice, got 3 kids and 7 grandkids. (Had quite a few girl friends before I settled down as well) !!!.

Just keep positive with him and don't, please don't let him give up on studies or work or whatever he is doing.

Bernie