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      <title>my husband recoverd from alopecia areata by using black seed oil o...</title>
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      <title>Hi,

I got Alopecia Areata about 4 months ago. I first noticed i...</title>
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I got Alopecia Areata about 4 months ago. I first noticed it after coming back from the barber shop. The next day while scratching my head i noticed some hair was falling off. A couple of days later on the right side of my head, a small patch of about 2cm in diameter was bare. I initially thought it was stress related and didn't give it a second thought, thinking it would grow back when i was more relaxed. the ptach kept getting bigger and bigger until it reached 10cm in diameter. Also i got two small hairless spots on the back of my head.

Two months in to this condition, i started worrying. Just for reference, i already have a dandruff contidion which leads to excessive flaking and oily scalp. To cure this, last year i started using a shampoo called Selenol (may be called something else in your country). This wonder shampoo left my head clean and free from dandruff... for the first time in 13 years. I no longer had to scarcth my scalp to the point where i started bleeding. It was truly a wonder shampoo.

Back to the Alopecia. I went to a dermatologist and immediately started tratement using x-rays and freeze therapy. The doctor explained that somehow, some antibodies in my head got confused and thought that my hair follicles were alien and trying to attack my scalp. The therapy started working all the while i was still using Selenol shampoo at least twice a week.

I have recently tried to get more info on this condition, thinking it couldn't possibly be hereditary since neither my father nor mother ever had it. I absolutely refused to admit it being something passed on to me.

I decided to look into the fact that the Selenol shampoo was for some reason taken off the shelves at the pharmacy. I tried contacting their main agent and they had no good info on why they were pulled back.

I asked a doctor about the contents of the Shampoo and he said it was Selenium Sulfide. Selenium Sulfide according to the web and medical books has a list of known side effects, among others ALOPECIA ! Selenium Sulfide should not be applied on wounded skin or else the side effects will twofold. I at the time had scratched my scalp so much that i broke the skin and thus the shampoo came into direct contact with my blood.

I am absolutely positive that the shampoo is to blame. Why else would they pull it back from off the shelves.

FYI, it was the 2.5mg variant. In some countries it is also know as Selsun or Nizoral...

I have now stopped using Selenol and hair growth in the affected areas is sprouting normally. I'll have all my hair back in a month or so.

Hope this helps. I am positive that Alopecia has something to do with dandruff affected people who use shampoo that includes Selenium Sulfide.

regards
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:18:39 GMT</pubDate>
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