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Toddlers: 24 Months+
Help, DD lost 60% of her hair for no "medical" reason
I'm at my wits end. I've been to every doctor, allergist and specialist you can think of and NO ONE can tell me why my beautiful daughter, who once had a beautiful head of thick hair lost more than 60% of it out of no where last September. It's now growing back but it's still so sparse and I'm so concerned as to why it happened in the first place. We moved into a new house last summer which I know is stressful for a 2.5 year old but we really did our best to get her used to the surroundings and had lots of family around to help. She loved her new room and was so happy here. I wound up having emergency gallbladder surgery (yuck how untimely) a month after we moved in and I couldn't pick her up for about 3 weeks, which was very hard for her. I get that it was stressful for her, and the whole family. All the doctors seem to say it was stress related but I don't know, I'm not 100% convinced. They tested her for alopecia (negative) and all kinds of thyriod disorders, immune system problems, celiac disease and all kinds of allergies. Her entire mood is different too, she has terrible screaming fits that can last a VERY long time (usually at nap/bed time) and just seems very anxious. We're seeing a PhD psychologist too to help her manage stress, even he says there is nothing psychologically wrong with her --she's just anxious (no processing disorders, etc).
I'm just hoping someone will read this, and either knows someone that had a similar situation OR had a similar experience of a child losing most of their hair. I really want to figure this out to ensure it doesn't happen again and just to know what on earth caused it.
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Re: Help, DD lost 60% of her hair for no "medical" reason
Yes b/c her blood allergy test came back with dairy, eggs and wheat sensitivity---her allergist then did the skin tests which were ALL negative so he said it's not enough to eliminate them from her diet. We did anyway--not much change in her.
Oh, I'm very sorry. This is going to sound like an odd question, but are you certain she doesn't pull her own hair out?
There is a condition called trichotillomania in which sometimes people pull their hair out particularly in times of str
Do you have a video monitor in her room? Do you think she's pulling out her hair? I used to babysit for a girl who used to do this when she started to get tired. She would pull her hair and then put it in her mouth and suck her thumb.
Hey all
Thanks for ALL the suggestions--it's a relatively new home, so no lead paint. We have carbon monoxide detectors in the house too. I don't know about other environmental toxins, I suppose I could have our house tested for that.
This happened to my daughter at 22 months - she was diagnosed with Alopecia Areata. We first went to the pedi - who referred us to a dermatologist. Derms are the only ones that can properly diagnos it.
Alopecia is an auto-immune dis