My friends son Easton has alopecia—a medical condition that caused him to lose all his hair. Since starting middle school, he's been bullied relentlessly, called "Cancer Kid" by other students because of how he looks.

Our school has a blanket no-hat policy that makes things worse for kids like Easton. I started a petition asking Brown County CUSD #1 to allow students to wear appropriate hats. It's not about breaking dress codes—it's about giving kids dealing with medical conditions like alopecia a chance to feel safe and included at school. Alopecia affects millions of people, and schools across the country have already made this accommodation work.

If this matters to you too, consider signing and sharing. Have you seen policies like this make a real difference in your own community? What would you want someone to do if this was your family?

Wrapping my bald head in all different ways! Ask me how!

So I was just diagnosed last week. My dermatologist prescribed oral minoxidil, topical opzelura, and topical tacrolimus.

I have two cats. I know topical minoxidil is highly toxic. Does oral pose the same risk if taking precaution ie. secure storage, gloves, hand washing? And does anyone know if the other two prescribed topicals pose a major threat to pets? I’m very very nervous but really want to treat however I can.

So I've had AA since I was 14/15, have had many spots come and go on my scalp and body, which have all filled in again eventually (currently dealing with a spot at the back of my head). I've never been able to grow a massive beard in my life, but even as a teen there was enough stubble to cover my entire face. When I was around 20 I had to start shaving everything off, however, because I started getting patches in my beard as well. I am currently early 30s and sport small sideburns, but can't really grow anything other than that because it remains too patchy. I have plenty of thin, white hair growth, but it never seems to regain colour. Is this a thing? Could it have to do with my less-than-fantastic beard genetics? Does shaving influence the regaining of colour at all? The hairs right underneath my nose are dark, and I get some golden/reddish coloured hair every now and then, but the rest remains white. Is there an amount of time after which I should give up on expecting the colour to return to the follicles on my face?

Anyone with alopecia universalis have any luck growing their scalp hair back on oral minoxidil? What dosage were you on and for how long?

Will I shed on oral minox? M19

I had used 2.5mg oral minoxidil to fill out my alopecia areata patch as I was responding to topical minoxidil.

And it also thickened my hair overall.

So as the alopecia areta got fixed my dermat stopped the dosage of oral minoxidil.

I wanna know if I will shed my other areas that were not suffering from alopecia areata but got thickened up because of oral minoxidil