Homoeopathic Medicine For Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania is also known as Hair pulling disorder or compulsive hair pulling.
It is a mental disorder characterized by a long term urge that results in the pulling out of one's own hair
A brief positive feeling may occur as Hair typically fail.
Hair removal may occur anywhere, however the head and eyebrows are the most common.
The hair pulling is to such a degree that it's results in distess and hair loss can be seen.
A disorder that involves, recurrent, irresistible urge to pull out the body hair.
Efforts to stop pulling hair typically fail.
The specific cause of trichotillomania is unclear.
A patient of trichotillomania often pull only one hair at a time and these hair pulling episodes can last for hour at a time.
Some individuals may experience more satisfaction after pulling an anagen phase hair with gel like inner root sheath still surrounding the base of hair.
Trichotillomania can go into remission like states where the individual may not experience the urge to pull for days, weeks, months or even year.
It usually onset childhood or adolescence.
It occurs more common in person who have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Trichotillomania may be triggered by stress.
The trichotillomania is defined as a self induced and recurrent hair loss.
The patient of trichotillomania may not realize they are pulling their hair, and patient presenting or diagnosis may deny criteria for tension period to hair pulling or a sense of gratification after hair is pulled.
Clinical features of Trichotillomania
Distress
Compulsive hair pulling
Hair loss
Bald patches on the scalp
A sense of pleasure or relief after the hair is pulled out.
A increase sense of tension before pulling out your hair, or when you try to resist pulling.
Causes
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Genetic cause
Investigation
- CT scan
- MRI
Treatment
- Counselling
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Medication - antidepressants
The selection of homoeopathic remedies based on symptom similarities and doses according to the Susceptibility of patient.
Don't take homoeopathic medicine without any prescription / without any advise of physician.
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