Urgent help needed. Anyone with experience of childhood alopecia?

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My best friend is here with me and has a nine year old dd with progressing alopecia. She has just noticed a third area right in the middle of her forehead developing and really really needs some support and advice.
If anyone here can help in any way at all we would be very greatful, tia.

any help

no personal experience, sorry

i had this when i was younger and still get it when stressed now, so many sympathys to poor lamb.

There are various different methods they can try, go to docs and they will help, i tried steroid creams and(not nice this one!) steriod injections into the area that had lost the hair, didnt hurt lots just not nice.
TBH, i feel knowing what i do now(trained in hairdressing when i was older), you can try these things out to help it along, but its normally an underlying problem, for example mine was worry/stress/depression...not saying your friends LO has this, but was major factor for me, for example, when we move house, my hair falls out in patches!, grows back pretty quickly these days though but have had some very large bald patches in my time..big hug to her

She has been to her gp, a specialist and various alternative options but tbh right now it is getting worse and she would love to hear from anyone who's child has recovered from this or who had this as a child and can give her any reassurance whatsoever.

Today my best friend feels like a crap mother in case her dd is stressed and it is her fault. There are no particular stresses in her dd's life although she is a worrier in general. I am in her house now and want to help them both so much.

thats what i was a wrrier, nothing major, things like starting school, new places, normal worries and my bodies reaction was to shed my hair, it does feel like the end of the world but ti should grown back and mine is thicker and even more curly now

Count, thank you...
She needs to hear there is light at the end of the tunnel. Do you think it was anything you did that made your hair grow? Did you just worry less, or settle more, or not think about it?

i didnt have a good child hood, but i taughtmyself to try and relax and not worry about things i had no control over, the steroid injections/creams may help, even if its just so she feels like she's 'doing' something?, they did help it along(even the creams).good luck chick.x

Thanks again. Btw how old were you when it started? Her dd is 9 and tonight we noticed the first patch on her hairline right at the front of her forehead. This means no more hiding it with ponytails anymore. Btw her mum is a hairdresser.
Sorry for asking you personal questions but it's in a really good cause.

i must have been about the same age as i was still in junior school.
i aws lucky(if there is such a thing!) as mine was always for some reason at the back of my head so could be covered with my hair(although my very short bob soon became a very long one to hide it!, i know she wont want to but you can get some lovely style hair bands these days the type that scrunch up(material) in a thin band or unfold to a head scarf type , they were worn by everyone in aiya napa this summer, my dd loves hers