After Covid-19, some survivors experience ‘heart-wrenching’ hair loss

Stacey Maravola, seen in September after a haircut that she hoped would help with her hair breakage and loss.Maravola is one of many coronavirus survivors dealing with dramatic hair loss, something that experts say is not entirely unexpected following a serious illness — but can be jarring nonetheless.

“It is upsetting, especially for those who have gone through a significant clinical course of Covid, to then experience this as well,” said Dr. Sara Hogan, a dermatologist and health sciences clinical instructor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles."But oftentimes, patients, once they have a diagnosis and they understand that typically this will get better, they feel better.

Sudden hair loss can happen after any stressful event, including major surgery or even an emotional stressor such as starting a new job, Hogan said. The pandemic appears to have led to a large uptick in people who are seeing their hair thinning, she said: Hogan used to see an average of three to five hair loss patients a week and now sees up to seven a day.

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Posted ad nauseam; still not credible. Let it GO.

Neither the president, nor any Republicans care about ANY Americans who have contracted this disease.

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Huh. This happened to me too.

This is a new scare tactic. How afraid should we be and how long should we not leave our house for? Is it OK to open windows while we’re hiding?

Take your mask off, lose your hair?

Its just menopause..

Trump won’t loose his hair - it’s a wig.

Blame this on your Trump!

What a joke.

Crying in the shower because of hair-loss is peak American white lady.

This is what worries me. You don't have to suffer from covid. This sort of symptoms fly under the radar but still very much impact people's lives.

Dump Trump 2020

Is lupus now

oh......seems like i have since 30 years Covid19...

Man, it infects the lungs the GI tract, The Olfactory cranial nerve (1)The hypoglossal (7) To me, if it can do that no wonder people report vicious brain fog, - nothing is a surprise with this virus.

The coming winter can be a horror.🥶👹

Life rarely turns out as we expect it to.

If that's the worst part of surviving one's infection with a killer virus--as unpleasant as it might be--one might consider oneself fortunate.

Covid19 has only been identified as genetic material. P

I was told some denier even lost their balls.

Don’t worry, just call trump’s hairstylist.

Hair loss? Please! Try having a baby and see how much hair loss you experience after you deliver.Let’s shut down the entire country because I loose some hair.

It’s menopause, not Covid.

So do millions of other people

First world problems.

Armenians who have a small population have 12 terrorist organizations in the world...But world still silent to occupation, to GanjaCity tragedy, to KhojalyGenocide tragedy and other armenian Act of terrorism in Karabakh,In Baku, in LA, in Georgia war, and other...

Hydroxychloraquine?

Long term effects of covid is just the start.

But did you die?

FLASH POLL 👇 What illness have you had?

If you cry every time you take a shower, maybe your emotional problems are causing the hair loss. 🤔

Power to the Bald

This is what ultimately turns us into gray, big eyed, bald, sexless creatures. They arent aliens! They’re us from the future via time travel machines! Atomic bombs cloud the skies, making it eternally dark. Thus we evolve to have big eyes. COVID makes us all bald. Makes sense?

Interesting... wondering how the virus affects the hair follicles..

“Heart-wrenching”? Really? You know this is just a normal part of aging for like most men and that a bunch of people with COVID actually die or have long term health issues....right?

If we could only go back in time to 2019 before viruses

You have your life, and instead you cry over hair loss. Wtf?!

Austria 2020 march

Should have worn a mask.

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