While temporary and reversible, post-COVID hair loss can be terrifying.
Here’s how to navigate it, plus next steps to promote regrowth.
Youre noticing your shower drain is clogged.
Youre shedding like crazy all over your sweaters.
Who does post-COVID hair loss affect?
Potentially, more than half of everyone who has had COVID has lost hair afterward.
board-certified physician’s assistant at the Northwest Dermatology Institute in Portland, Oregon
And you dont have to have had severe COVID to have this reaction after recovery.
When is hair loss a sign of something more?
Throughout the course of a day, we typically lose 50 to 100 strands of hair.
Losing more than that for one to three months after having COVID indicates post-COVID hair loss.
You might lose just over the daily norm, or up to a thousand strands in a day.
The stress of the illness causes some hair follicles to convert from a growing phase to a shedding phase.
With this pop in, some people also have scalp pain.
Fortunately, either way, this reaction is not a lifelong sentence.
Post-COVID hair loss is common, temporary, and reversible (the hair will grow back)!
board-certified physician’s assistant at the Northwest Dermatology Institute in Portland, Oregon
Most cases resolve on their own without any additional treatment, say Desai and McKeon.
it’s possible for you to also treat your hair gently,avoiding over styling or heating.
Fortunately, hair loss is not a sign that you have long COVID.
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