It may be best in the long run for Lilly that you stopped the tanning
salon sessions, at least according to the FDA.

http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/consumer/tanning.html

"UV radiation from the sun, tanning beds, or from sun lamps may cause
skin cancer....UV radiation can also have a damaging effect on the
immune system..."

Years ago, my dermatologist warned me to never even go out in the sun
without UV protection. I'm glad I followed his advice. Having had
alopecia universalis for the past 20 years, and alopecia areata for
the 16 years prior to that, I suspect that being bald is a lot easier
to handle than skin cancer or even wrinkled up leathery skin caused
by the cummulative effects of UV rays.

I hope that Lilly grows up to be a beautiful, unwrinkled middle aged
lady some day -- with or without hair. :)

--- In alopeciaareatasupportgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Juli Sew Weird
Designs" <sewweird@...> wrote:
>
> You may remember me telling you that the end of last summer my
Lilly (7)
> hair started to grow back. We started taking her to the tanner and
even
> though the growth was very slow she was keeping the hair. Her hair
has
> grown out on her crown area about the size of a saucer and was
about 4
> inches long. This Thursday I noticed she looked different and then
I
> saw all the loose hair on the back of her sweater. It started just
that
> quick and now more then half of her new hair is gone. I suspect she
will
> be completely bald again with-in a few weeks. I had stopped
taking her
> to the tanner because she really hated it and would moan every
time. I
> never knew if it was the sun light that triggered the re-growth so
I was
> lax in taking her to the tanner. It was exactly one year ago that
her
> hair all fell out the first time, I find that odd.
>
>
> Juli
>