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2 Ways to treatment hair loss with folliculitis

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Folliculitis is inflammation of one or more hair follicles. It is common, and can affect people at any age. The folliculitis causes can be divided broadly into two categories:

1. Infectious : The most common cause of this condition is by bacterial or fungal infection of the hair follicles.

2. Non-infectious : Non-infectious folliculitis causes are oils and greases. Oils and greases, when applied to the skin, clog up the hair follicles and lead to non-infectious folliculitis.

Folliculitis is characterised by redness and swelling and pustules around the hair follicle that leads to destruction of the follicle and consequent permanent hair loss. There are usually round or oval patches of hair loss in which there are pustules surrounding the hair follicles. Characteristically, several or many hairs can be seen coming out of a single follicle, so the scalp looks "tufted" like a toothbrush.

Eventually the hairs are shed as the follicle is completely destroyed and leaves behind a scar. In the early stages of a folliculitis the hair fiber may still be present in the middle of the folliculitis, but as the folliculitis progresses the hair often falls out. When folliculitis is severe, the inflammation is so intense that it can actually permanently destroy the hair follicles, leaving little bald patches.

There are two ways to treatment hair loss because of folliculitis :

1. In milder cases, folliculitis will usually recover on its own in 1 to 2 weeks.
   The treatment of simple folliculitis involves applying moist heat, salt-water compresses and topical antibiotics. This approach is generally sufficient, and oral antibiotics are seldom needed. Folliculitis does not generally leave scars, but the bump may be present in some form for an extended period of time. Usually the skin is completely normal after a month or so.

2. If you notice after 3 weeks that the infection remains, Oral antibiotic or antifungal pills is necessary.
   Oral antibiotics such as minocycline, tetracycline , rifampicin , clindamycin , fusidic acid, ciprofloxacin and dicloxacillin have all been tried with varying results from patient to patient. In some severe forms, addition of an oral corticosteroid may be necessary. Oral isotretinoin has also been tried with some success.