Your mum and dad will be upset about your hair loss but that doesn't mean it's your fault.

While they are bringing you up they make lots of decisions to try to ensure you grow up to be healthy and they do what they can to stop you getting ill. When you were ill, they did what they could to cure you, taking you to the doctors and getting medicines. 

But Alopecia Areata isn’t like lots of other illnesses which have a cure. Doctors haven't found a way to make hair grow back -  though they're working on it. An your mum and dad will feel bad because - probably for the first time ever - there isn't an easy way to make you better. Some parents become determined to find you a treatment.

What usually ends up happening - as you may know already - is that the hair grows back all by itself when we're least expecting it, without anything being done at all!

You see, alopecia isn't fully understood, yet. 

What is certain, is that it caused by anything you have done. That’s for sure. And it’s definitely NOT your fault.

In the meantime your mum and dad would like to find something to help make the hair grow again and are feeling a bit anxious and upset about it. They don’t want you to lose your hair - they want to make it grow.

There are some treatments which may help, and they might discuss whether you should try any of them. They may possibly hope (like you) to find a cure.

But the hair is still most likely to just grown back on its own when it’s ready.

So you’re all allowed to feel very cross about it all.

But it still isn’t anybody’s fault.