LANSING — Nekeyta Brunson was “the girl with the wig.”
The Flint native was diagnosed with alopecia, an autoimmune disease that manifests in hair loss, when she was in the first grade. There weren’t special children’s wigs she could wear, so she wore ill-fitting adult wigs to school, making her an easy target for bullies.
Nekeyta Brunson has been dealing with alopecia since elementary school.
Alopecia is an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the hair follicles and leads to hair loss. It’s been found in most cases that hair falls out in a few small round patches about a quarter in size. Sometimes this is as far as it goes; however, in some people hair loss can go beyond the scalp and be more extensive.
Nekeyta Brunson is a woman who loves to help others.
At a young age she developed alpoecia, a condition in which her immune system attacks her hair follicles and causes baldness.
Even though she’s had this condition since she was a child, she really didn’t face it until she was an adult.
FLINT, MI – Hamilton Community Health Network hosted the Second Annual Chat & Chew: Breast Cancer Review on Saturday, October 20. The event returned to the Flint Farmers’ Market in pink fashion.
