A little boy is being forced to wait almost a year for treatment on the NHS for sudden alopecia that has seen lose 80 per cent of his hair.
Six-year-old Ollie always had ‘such beautiful hair’, says worried mum Helen Smith, and has even been signed to a modelling agency since being a baby.
But in October 2023, Ollie’s mum noticed a small patch of hair missing on her son’s head – since then, it has spread to the point where Ollie is now missing 80 per cent of his hair.
Ollie, who his mum calls the ‘sweetest and most caring little boy’, has also lost his right eyebrow and lost all of his eyelashes on one eye as the condition set in.
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