Are Hair Follicules Still Present In Long-Term Baldness?

Question

That Mechanical Stimulation (Which Anyone Can Do) has Limited Value (Given that Scams Like "Scalpmed" and "Avacor" Work, to Some Extent).

Thanks Peter K, Bloodflow is Implicated, Since Minoxidil has Some Effect.

johnandeileen2000. No Gray Hairs? Cortisone?, I can't See How it Works, but There is a Lot I don't Know. Do you Go Out In the Sun Very Much? The Reason I Ask this, is that In a Meeting of Cardinals Years Ago, I Noticed they Were Not Gray Under their Skullcaps.

Johnandeileen2000, Do you Have Some Type of Autoimmune Disease?, With a Symptom of Aloepecia (I've Forgotten the Types). Are you + for a MHC I Allele? (In Particular, the B27 Allele?). I Have Long Suspected a Strong Association Between Autoimminity and Cellular Immunity.

Answer 1

This is what I found as a fellow sufferer and the answer is no :-(

Hormones do something to hair follicle which causes it
to be read as "foreign body" by immune system, which then
mounts an attack. Main damage in balding is probably
immunologically-mediated. Damage to lining of blood vessels,
which produces hair growth-stimulatory factors, makes this
worse.

Answer 2

As far as I know they are not. I had a problem with bald spots earlier in my life, a dermatologist gave me a series of cortisone injections, the hair grew back very quickly. The injections were made directly into the bald spot. An interesting side note, I am 78 years old and I have no grey hairs, my doctor informed that the reason for this is that I still have living stem cells in the follicles of my hair. I would be temped to have a few cortisone injections if I was bald.

Answer 3

I personally feel baldness is the result of evolution. Thick scalp hair is meant to protect the biped from rain and sun. We no longer need such cap. So we go bald.Hair follicles are absent from permanent bald areas. In areas where the sun doesn`t shine much bipeds don`t even need melanin in scalp hair. So more and more bipeds will be blond.

Answer 4

I understand if you have pattern baldness, which you inhurt from your family. That the roots of the hair die so you cant grow no more hair.
But if you start loosing your hair go to doc. when it first start and sometimes the doc can find out what is the problem and help you . But if you let it all fall out there some times no way they can help it grow back. Thee are many reasons it can fall out.
Queen Bee

Answer 5

I don't believe so, but I'd have to research it for more details...