Balding Blog
09-01-2009, 10:44 AM
Snippet from the article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1210383/I-started-going-bald-12-I-want-world-women-hair-loss-ashamed-of.html):
Like any 12-year-old getting ready for her first school disco, Aimee Blinkhorn wanted her hair to look perfect. But as her mother put it up into pretty curls, she noticed a small bald patch at the back of her daughter’s head, about the size of a 50p piece.
‘Neither of us was particularly alarmed,’ says Aimee, now 26 and living in Manchester. ‘I just presumed some hair had come out when I pulled out a hair tie.’
But over the next few months, more bald patches appeared. Soon there were six of them - and twice the size of the first.
Read the full article at UK’s Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1210383/I-started-going-bald-12-I-want-world-women-hair-loss-ashamed-of.html).
This is a great story about a courageous young woman that has been living with alopecia universalis. I applaud her for bringing her story to the public, and I hope she inspires others with this condition. If you want to know more about the disease, please see the National Alopecia Areata Foundation (http://www.naaf.org).
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Like any 12-year-old getting ready for her first school disco, Aimee Blinkhorn wanted her hair to look perfect. But as her mother put it up into pretty curls, she noticed a small bald patch at the back of her daughter’s head, about the size of a 50p piece.
‘Neither of us was particularly alarmed,’ says Aimee, now 26 and living in Manchester. ‘I just presumed some hair had come out when I pulled out a hair tie.’
But over the next few months, more bald patches appeared. Soon there were six of them - and twice the size of the first.
Read the full article at UK’s Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1210383/I-started-going-bald-12-I-want-world-women-hair-loss-ashamed-of.html).
This is a great story about a courageous young woman that has been living with alopecia universalis. I applaud her for bringing her story to the public, and I hope she inspires others with this condition. If you want to know more about the disease, please see the National Alopecia Areata Foundation (http://www.naaf.org).
Tags: alopecia areata (http://technorati.com/tag/alopecia+areata), alopecia universalis (http://technorati.com/tag/alopecia+universalis), alopecia (http://technorati.com/tag/alopecia), hairloss (http://technorati.com/tag/hairloss), hair loss (http://technorati.com/tag/hair+loss), disease (http://technorati.com/tag/disease), female hair loss (http://technorati.com/tag/female+hair+loss), uk (http://technorati.com/tag/uk)
More... (http://www.baldingblog.com/2009/09/01/in-the-news-young-woman-with-alopecia-universalis-shares-her-story/)