12 year old dd1 developed bald patch

[pigsinmud]

Last night dd1 was in the kitchen and I noticed she had a bald patch on the top of her head. I thought she'd slept on it wet the day before and it had parted weirdly. I mentioned it to her and fiddled with it and realised it's a bald patch. No hair there - about the size of a 50p piece. The general nearby area of hair is quite thin.She washed her hair and she wanted me to dry it. I realised her hair is a lot thinner than it used to be.

She has chronic urticaria which has been getting worse lately. She takes daily antihistamines - 2 or 3 times the usual dose. GP said it wasn't worth investigating as they usually don't find a cause for it. I had decided to go back as it's causing her more discomfort. Is there any link?

She went with her hair in a pony tail today as we can hide the bald patch. Part of me wishes I hadn't said anything to her as she is now worrying about it, but it's probably better that I said something and we hide it than someone at school notice and point it out.

She was very stressed 6 months ago as she found starting secondary school very tricky. I wonder if it's had a delayed reaction. Natsku did it happen to your brother again?

It didn't start happening until about half a year after we moved either so maybe it takes that long for the stress to affect the body?

It hasn't happened again and he has a very thick head of hair.

OP it only happened to me once in my teens and it's never happened again, and I've had a lot of stressful times since then. My dad was so so worried about me, i would say don't worry, hopefully it will grow back.

That's interesting - similar time frame. Thanks.

Just to add, my brother is currently going through much much worse stress than he did at the time and no hair loss this time. His eczema is terrible but hair is fine.