Hi my daughter developed alopecia at 2 years of age and is now 29 years old. Alopecia is an autoimmune disease. She started out by losing small patches of hair and then that hair would grow back and then it would fall out in other places until she lost all her hair and sadly bc of the hair loss she was badly bullied in school . My daughter has some hair now but not all of it bc she decided she wanted to try steroid shots which are painful. Stress has a lot to do with alopecia. We spent a lot of money on creams for her head from dermatologists but nothing ever seemed to work . We were told by a pediatric dermatologist that if you have the 3 combined of asthma hayfever and eczema that you would never get hair back at the natural hairline which is true for my daughter. My daughter still wears wigs to this day but it has sadly affected her self esteem due to the bullying she endured at school.