Re: [holisticpeds] alopecia totalis....

I use this check list when hair loss is an issue and it includes the things you are addressing and wondering about. I hope it helps. - Nori Hudson, NC

CHECK LIST FOR UNDERLYING ISSUES CONTRIBUTING TO HAIR LOSS

q Protein deficiency (<15% of calories, low L-cysteine and L-methionine)
q Essential fatty acid deficiency (in particular, DHA and GLA)
q Vitamin deficiencies (B3, B5, B6, biotin, inositol, C, D, and E)
q Mineral imbalances (zinc/copper ratio low, high selenium)
q Heavy metal and/or fluoride toxicity (mercury, arsenic, aluminum)
q Hypochlorhydria (lack of adequate stomach acid)
q Hypothyroidism (basal body temperature significantly/ regularly < 97.8 �F)
q Stress (hypoglycemia, food allergies)
q Hormone imbalances (stress, life changes)
q High sugar diet (affects bladder meridian)
q High soy diet (high estrogens, high copper, low zinc, low methionine)
q Shampoos, hair dyes and treatments
q Autoimmune diseases (celiac, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, lupus)
q Fungal or bacterial infections, demodex, ringworm
q Medications (such as BP, allupurinol, BCP, anti-coagulants)
q Poor circulation, acute illness, radiation exposure, diabetes

On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:57 PM, sandiegolac wrote:

I just started treating an 11yr. old girl with a history of alopecia totalis since age 3. She was
an infant with horrible eczema which subsided around 4 yrs. old - she was worked up by an
allergist and endocrinologist at that time. She is currently working with an allergist for her
food allergies. The parents were told she would probably outgrow it but she has not. I am
treating her with acupuncture and herbs presently: her TCM diagnosis is Kidney/spleen qi xu
with phlegm damp. I took her off the soy milk and flouride pills she had been on since
infancy. Has anybody had any experience treating alopecia? Should I look at heavy metal
toxicity? Thyroid? Food allergies? GI/Stool analysis? Is the Urine Organix test from
metametrix a place to start? Thanks for your input!

Homeopathic Remedies & Homeopathy Treatment for Alopecia Areata

Homeopathic medicines are known to give very good results in cases of alopecia reata. The medicines most commonly found useful are –
Acid-flouricum, Phosphorus, Graphites, Apis, Ars-alb, Calcarea, Hepar-sulph, Psorinum, Kali-carb, Rhus-tox, Sepia, Psorinum, Calc-phos, Carbo-animalis, Selenium, Kali-phos, Lycopodium.
Homeopathy treats the person as a whole. It means that homeopathic treatment focuses on the patient as a person, as well as his pathological condition.

Natural Remedies for Alopecia Areata

In most people with alopecia areata, hair usually grows back within a year without any treatment. The following are some natural remedies that have been explored for alopecia areata.
1) Essential Oils

A double-blind, placebo-controlled study examined the use of a combination of essential oils or a placebo oil in 86 people with alopecia areata. The combination oil was a mixture of thyme, rosemary, lavender, and cedarwood essential oils in a mixture of carrier oils (jojoba and grapeseed). This oil was massaged into the scalp daily. The control group used only the carrier oils for their massage, also daily.
After 7 months, 19 (44%) of 43 people using the essential oil blend showed an improvement compared with 6 (15%) of 41 people in the control group. Although no side effects were associated with the topical application of essential oils, they may cause allergic reactions in some people.








2) Onion Juice

A study published in the Journal of Dermatology examined the effectiveness of onion juice or placebo in people with alopecia areata. Twenty-three people with alopecia areata applied the onion juice twice daily for two months, and 15 people applied tap water twice daily for two months.
People in the onion group began to experience regrowth of hair after two weeks of treatment. At four weeks, hair regrowth was seen in 17 (73.9%) people and at six weeks, hair regrowth was observed in 20 (86.9%) people. Improvement was significantly higher among males. In the tap water control group, hair regrowth was apparent in only 2 people at 8 weeks.

The diet is also important. An anti-inflammatory diet is often recommended for auto-immune conditions as inflammation is always involved with these types of conditions. Including anti-inflammatory herbs or supplements can also be helpful. Eliminating or reducing sugar/processed foods and other junk foods is also very important for healing. Spirulina and chlorella are excellent natural food sources containing many valuable nutrients for healthy hair growth.
Since alopecia areata may be "triggered" by a variety of factors, trying to identify and avoid triggers may be helpful. Try to avoid toxins, pollutants, allergens etc. as any of these can trigger a flare-up.

Natural remedies

Natural and holistic treatments are a gentler yet still effective alternative to treating hair loss than the harsh chemicals found in synthetic over-the-counter and prescription products. Using herbal and homeopathic remedies helps to promote healthy, strong hair and supports circulation, hormonal balance and thyroid functioning.
Carefully selected herbal ingredients such as Ginkgo biloba, Rosmarinus officinale and Xanthoxylum clavaherculis promotes blood circulation which ensures that nutrient rich blood reaches the hair follicles. In addition, Equisetum arvense, Avena sativa and Echinacea also help to stimulate and nourish tiny hair follicles to encourage abundant hair.

I certainly don't know if there is any cure for this... if there is I have not heard of one for this early onset type of hair loss with an auto immune malfunction component.

I will say this though.. I have heard of a number of diseases cured with MMS1 that were considered strictly autoimmune as a cause.

When I was in 7th grade I had an english teacher who had this condition... being the snotty little kid I was at the time I did make fun of him.. and I called him the guiding light because his head shinned.

Be that as it may, he was a very attractive man and an excellent teacher.

I have always thought that men who were selfconscious about their thinning hair or baldness really missed the mark simply because of that self consciousness and insecurity. There is nothing less sexy than a man who insecure with himself.

My husband is bald on top and I will would say that there is not one single insecure hair on his head...... which of course is requried to hang out any length of time with me without going mad.

Your best option for your friend is to support him in being who he is. If you love him as a friend, and he learns to unconditoinally love himself, he will have a great life for that will make him a very energetically attractive person.

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What types of tests has he had?

Total alopecia? If you mean his whole body is hairless, that IS called alopecia universalis as was mentioned somewhere in this thread.
Since he DID have hair up until 3 or 4 years old, chances are (i hate to say it) he suffered from malnutrition & was iron deficient. The only other cause I can think of is pituitary disorders and hyperthyroidism, which if it was addressed at the time, could have reversed his hairloss. Perhaps it still could reverse it..
Anyway, there's a good chance it's permanent. Once hair follicles stop producing hairs, the only way to grow hair in that area is through transplants.

It must be terribly embarrassing to him when people continually try to fix him instead of just accepting it. It's great that he has you for a friend

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https://www.alopeciaworld.com/forum/t...sed-by-mercury

Alopecia caused by mercury poisoning from vaccines and amalgam fillings

• Posted by Ann-Charlotte Stewart on July 12, 2009 at 11:39pm in Symptoms, treatment options, research
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I have been reading a lot about vaccines the last few days and it just dawned on me that the mercury that is used as a preservative in many of the vaccines that are administered to people could be one of the causing agents to alopecia. Moreover, amalgam fillings leak mercury, and I have quite a few of those fillings, so there is another source of mercury.

I googled mercury and alopecia and there it was!! I found tons of info on this. Many of the other symptoms that I have experienced matches the picture too. Check out the symptoms.

Mercury Poisoning
Mercury poisoning is the result of too much exposure to the poison mercury. Mercury is destructive to the immune system and causes many unrelated diseases. This can delay treatment, because both doctor and patient are attempting to cure other diseases and not the original cause.

Causes of Mercury Poisoning
Mercury poisoning can be caused by any number of methods of exposure. Amalgam dental fillings are a main cause, other causes are eating fish that have been exposed to mercury in the environment, industrial and work place exposures such as those in the paint industry, even in the hospital (and home) setting poses a potential threat to mercury poisoning because of the mercury in thermometers, dropping or somehow breaking a single thermometer is a very hazardous situation even without touching the mercury because of the vapors produced by the mercury.

Vaccines!!!!! For decades, half of all childhood vaccines contained a chemical preservative called Thimerosal, this is made from mercury which is one of the most toxic substances on our planet.

https://minicolumn.org/alopecia/Alope...dict.html#alop


An article about aromatherapy and alopecia appeared in Natural Health September/October 1997 issue. In the article, a women who suffered from AA since children and was losing all of her hair, recounted her use of aromatherapy and cayenne extract. Each night before bed, she massaged a mixture of lemon, lavender, rosemary and carrot seed essential oils in a base of jojoba oil into her scalp (no information as to the total amount of each mixed was provided). In the morning, she stimulated her scalp with cayenne pepper extract and a soft toothbrush followed by rinses of hot and cold water. She claims to have seen regrowth in about three months and had a full head of hair after six months. She has not had a recurrence of alopecia since beginning her therapy.



I would think vaccines played a role in your friend's condition.

I Surfed the web for mercury and thyroid and got connections there. I submitted to a thread that Radiation and quite possibly autoimmune diseases affect the thyroid. What I found that cured mine related to alopecia areata and iodine. The thyroid produces an enzyme that gets inhibited and the body cannot assimilate biotin and iodine.
I restored my hair with BIOTIN and IODINE. A year of baldness was over in a few weeks. It actually happened fairly quickly. I could notice a difference in a a little more than a week. My theory was radiation from the sun affecting thyroid function with lupus. Maybe mercury does the same thing. The thyroid may hold the key to alopecia areata. Wonder if there are herbs to heal the thyroid as well.

Now, search the web for alopecia fluoride connection. Know that iodine is a major chelator of fluoride. Really the only natural substance that will do that.

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This is interesting! We may have some scientific data, that hopefully the "experts" will pick up on. Surf Floride and Thyroid!!!!It bothered me to watch movies and see all those lucky people with rich thick hair. I tried all the snake oil salesman remedies;as well as, onion juice and nothing worked. My initial idea was to broadcast my success to all of you to give something good to people after researching for a year before finally having a breakthrough with Biotin and Iodine.

Hey everyone!!!!!!!!! Been trying to broadcast that I cured my Alopecia Areata. It was 95 percent of my scalp, all my eyelashes and most my eyebrows. Found out that autoimmune diseases tend to hurt thyroid function of production of an enzyme that helps the body to assimilate BIOTIN and IODINE. Took BIOTIN and IODINE (KELP) and it all grew back in a few weeks. Was having to shave my head for a year. Am totally over it. Grocery store hair nail and skin formulas in pill form will work or a mega vitamin that has excess amounts of biotin and iodine. BIOTIN AND IODINE CURED MY PATCHY BALDNESS COMPLETELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



PS MINE WAS CAUSED BY LUPUS

That's fantastic!
How much biotin & kelp did you consume daily?

I started with 100% with mega-vitamins, but later got biotin 333%, and iodine (KELP) at 230%. The Hair nails and skin formula that I took was 75% iodine and 1000% Biotin. I kept up the mega-vitamins to kick up the Iodine to about 160%, before going to the straight Biotin 333% and Kelp 230% formula. I rubbed some liquid Iodine on my leg as well, for absorption and to see how fast it absorbed. If you are short of Iodine you will have much quicker absorption and the stain will fade quicker. Lupus interferes with an enzyme in the thyroid and this might be true for other autoimmune diseases. Alopecia Areata is an autoimmune disease. What my discovery indicates is that there may be a nutritional deficiency caused by autoimmune reaction. I knew that Radiation poisoning,( which harms the thyroid, causes your hair to fall out), is treated with potassium iodide as with the Japanese tsunami, and subsequent nuclear reactor meltdown, so I surfed alopecia areata and iodine. There are things out there written about successful results with iodine for alopecia areata, but the one I found about the thyroid was because UV light triggers lupus flares and UV light is radiation.
Alopecia Areata just may be caused by a thyroid imbalance, which causes a nutritional deficiency in BIOTIN and IODINE. NEVER TAKE MELATONIN. It excerbates alopecia areata.

Got the idea from the Japanese Nuclear meltdown. They treated radiation poisoning with potassium iodide. Surfed alopecia areata, and iodine as well as lupus. It took a year of surfing to find out that radiation causes your hair to fall out and this is due to thyroid damage. The connection seems to be thyroid function autoimmune disease and an enzyme that inhibits the assimilation of biotin and iodine> THIS I CAN TELL YOU FOR SURE: IF YOUR PATCHY BALD SPOTS ARE CAUSED BY LUPUS THIS IS THE CURE>>>>>>>>>BIOTIN AND IODINE >>>>>>>>IF THIS WORKS FOR YOU TOO WITH OR WITHOUT LUPUS PASS IT ON