A few days ago, journalist Alexia Rivas surprised all her followers by admitting that she suffered from alopecia areataa type of autoimmune disease that causes hair loss. This type of disease is caused by the immune system mistakenly attacks hair follicleswhich causes round, smooth patches in the middle of the scalp.
Now, he has updated his status via Instagram, revealing that he has started treatment which involves corticosteroid infiltrations, one oral pill and two sprays newspapers. The process is slow and, as she pointed out, the doctor treating her told her that for a month “she won’t see any progress.”
“My intention is to tell you about the process. During my visit to the doctor, in addition to infiltrating, He told me I wouldn’t see any progress for a month. I’m lucky I can completely cover him with hair and lately I’ve never looked at him,” he wrote in a statement. history on Instagram in which she also showed how her hair is.
“I am doing much better than I thought. He told me that my type of areata is the one that no longer appears on the rest of the head and that I am going to repopulate it 100%,” added the journalist, who has already confessed that the reasons why she suffers from this disease are due to stress.
In addition, Alexia shared her case after one of her followers sent her a message in which she thanked her for making this disease visible, since she also suffered from it: “I have suffered from alopecia since I was 19 and I am 48, thank you for making it natural and visible. He has a solution, I had it and I know you do too. This will be resolved. Boost morale.”
The journalist also spoke about it in depth in the show Just the right time where he explained how he realized he was suffering from it. In fact, he said it happened overnight and it was his mother who told him, “My mother told me ‘What’s on your mind?’ When I saw him, I went to the bathroom to throw up.. “I thought I was going bald.”
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