Can diabetes cause you hair to fall out?

[guts_spunk_moxie]

I have diabetes (newly diagnosed, but apparently I have had it fo a while and didn't know it according to my doctor) and my hair keeps falling out near the crown and in the back, causing thin spots.
Someone told me that this can be a symptomatic cause from having diabetes. Is this true and if so; why?

[Monique L]

Type 2 can cause it.. A lot of stress or other hormone problems can also hair loss. You may want to be checked for some thing that is called Alopecia Areata as well. My daughter has it. There are two different types, thank goodness she has the kind where the hair will come back. I took her to 4 different dotors and they all wanted and did give her the same steroid cream for the spots but you can only use it for so long because it thins the skin. I just happened to be in Macy's one weekend and started talking to a lady in front of me and she told me about the Organic cream that Walmart, Riteaid and Walgreens sells. It's is in where they have a lot of the hair kits for Afro. Americans, it is called Olive Oil Organic root stimulator. Let me tell you, it works wonders!! GET SOME... They have a whole line of products which I use on my daughter. Every now and then I have find a little spot and I just nip it in the bud and rub it in and leave it over night and wash her head the next day and after a few applications you see peach fuzz coming up. Good luck, let me know if this helps you out.