After Covid-19, some survivors experience “heart-wrenching” hair loss: “I’m not a big emotional person, but I can tell you, this has changed me. I cry every single time I take a shower.”
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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