ANDDouard Philippe announced it with humor in an interview with Parisianthis Saturday, January 18: he “came back from among the bald.” Suddenly and without any particular intervention, his hair, eyebrows and beard began to grow back. The former Prime Minister revealed that he suffered from alopecia – more commonly called alopecia areata – in February 2023. This hair disorder, which affects one in a hundred people, manifests itself in very varied degrees and keeps mysteries that medicine does not know. not yet explain.
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It goes away and it comes back
Although this pathology develops differently depending on the patient, it is therefore reversible. And the return of hair on Édouard Philippe's skull is not a real surprise. By definition, this pathology corresponds to a rarefaction or transient disappearance of hair and sometimes also body hair. Loss is considered abnormal when it concerns more than 100 hairs per day, for more than two months. The decrease in hair density is linked to a decreasing number of hairs in the anagen phase (growth) and an increase in the number of hairs in the telogen phase (shedding).
ALSO READ And meanwhile, Édouard Philippe… L’alopecia areatathe most common form, is characterized by the appearance of one or more round spots on the scalp. Two other forms of this disorder, more severe but less frequent, exist:total alopecia (total absence of hair) and thealopecia universalis (absence of hair), that from which the former head of government suffers.
-A history of chronic inflammation
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Alopecia areata is known to occur when the immune system attacks growing hair follicles. It is therefore a chronic inflammatory pathology, with a predisposing genetic background, which evolves in the form of flare-ups. It affects both men and women and can coexist with other autoimmune pathologies such as vitiligo, as is the case of the current mayor of Le Havre and author of In the shadowsadapted at the end of 2024 by France 2.
ALSO READ Édouard Philippe undergoes his transformationHowever, the reason why the hair follicle becomes the target of an inflammatory reaction remains unknown. Links are mentioned with stress in particular. When inflammation pauses, hair follicles return to normal activity and allow hair to regrow. But here again, the mystery remains as to the reasons for this sudden regrowth. Small downside, the recurrent nature of alopecia is particularly disabling and can degrade patients' quality of life. It goes away and comes back… sometimes.
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