British rapper and actress Paigey Cakey recently revealed on social media that she suffered from a form of early baldness: “traction alopecia”. Simple “beauty concern” on the surface, traction alopecia can become hell.
Paigey Cakey (real name Paige Meade), British actress and rapper, posted on social media Instagram a very short video of her. Short, almost shaved hair. A far cry from the long braids she usually sports. In the caption, a long text in which she breaks the silence on a precocious baldness from which she is reached and which is caused by too pulled hairstyles.
Early baldness linked to overly pulled hairstyles
For three years she has been hiding a permanent malaise behind her hairstyles. She has been losing her hair for three years. That she suffers from traction alopecia, called “trichotillomania” when related to an OCD, is here caused by the repeated hairstyles that involve the hair being pulled too far.
If Paigey Cakey appears onscreen with an almost shaved head, it is because she has just had an operation in Turkey for a hair transplant. On the day she has recorded another video, longer this time, in which she talks about her alopecia.
Traction alopecia is hell
Paigey Cakey puts it well. This problem pumped him “75% of [son] energy ”. Mainly because she spent a lot of time trying to hide it.
Yet traction alopecia is not that trivial. On the contrary. It is a phenomenon that mainly affects black and mixed-race women. Women with naturally frizzy hair, like Paigey Cakey, who are strained by different hairstyles.
Frizzy hair, the first targets
By pulling too much on the hair, the small blood vessels that are normally responsible for nourishing the roots in the skin of the scalp rupture. The root is then no longer nourished properly and atrophies. The hair then begins to fall out. For one day no longer grow back.
The phenomenon first appears on the edges of the face and can spread (temples, edges of the forehead, sides).
On frizzy hair, the root is generally more fragile because it is less sunken under the skin, while it is the hair that is most styled with weaves or braids. The hair can thus be almost constantly pulled.
How to prevent and treat traction alopecia
Traction alopecia can be avoided by avoiding overly tight hairstyles repeatedly. But also by avoiding keeping these hairstyles for too long. For example for specialists, additions of mats should only remain between three and four weeks. That’s all.
Regarding treatment, there is for example Minoxidil®, a drug originally developed for high blood pressure. Used in lotion, it can stimulate hair growth. Only there would be some unpleasant side effects, especially in women, like hyperpilosity. On the face and elsewhere.
The best solution, when alopecia seems irreversible, is therefore hair reimplantation. Like Paigey Cakey. But it is an expensive intervention.
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